Internship Opportunities: Data Science

The Youth Café is a non-profit organization that strives to enrich the lives of young people by modelling and advancing youth-led and rights-based approaches to foster young people’s civic efficacy, community resilience, sustainable development, an equitable society, as well as proposing innovative solutions, driving social progress, and inspiring transformative change by utilizing innovative research, policy and advocacy actions.

For 8 years, our strategy has always been to look at today’s youth bulge as an opportunity for development and economic growth. This is why we are the leading organization for implementing a broad range of personal and professional development programs spanning life skills, job activations, media advocacy, entrepreneurship, peace and conflict prevention, among others.

About the Project

“Advancing Youth Online Civic Reasoning in Kenya” Project aims to equip young people with key media literacy skills: critical thinking, fact checking, online safety, social media verification, and quality assessment of online information and their sources through a dedicated handbook. Implementation Research will be used to enhance fact-checking skills of the youth to restore eroded trust by fake news, improve their civic online reasoning and encourage responsible social media usage among the youth particularly in the context of election periods in a bid to reduce political incitement, political strife, tarnished political images and hate speech.

These skills are important in restoring and consolidating democracy in Kenya where evidence shows that digital tools and social media networks have been used to spread distorted narratives to shape public opinions. Through designing, developing, evaluating, and disseminating a youth-centered media literacy handbook, we hope to address digital threats to democracy in Kenya.

Position Summary

The Data Analyst will take responsibility for managing our data set, critically analyzing, developing reports and troubleshooting data issues under the supervision of the Monitoring Evaluation and Learning Officer.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Support the Data Analyst in managing data, including creation, updates and deletion, and supporting initiatives for data integrity and normalization
• Assist in creating appropriate documentation that allows stakeholders to understand the steps of the data analysis process and duplicate or replicate the analysis if necessary
• Assist in managing users and user roles; training end-users on new reports and dashboards
• Support planning and delivery of all the project workshops and training sessions
• Support in designing and maintaining data systems and databases; including fixing coding errors and other data-related problems
• Assist in assessing tests, implementing the approved systems and troubleshooting the reporting database environment and reports
• Support in mining data from primary and secondary sources, then reorganizing said data in a format that can be easily ready by either human or machine

Required Qualifications

• Experience in data analytics or visualization, or work experience in a related field
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college in computer science/data science or a relevant field
• Ability to work with the team and relevant stakeholders to assess potential risks
• Ability to analyze existing tools and databases and provide software solution recommendations
• Demonstrated experience in handling large data sets and relational databases
• A great team player
• Be proactive, persistent and detail oriented
• Excellent report writing skills
• Outstanding verbal and written communication, interpersonal and cross-cultural skills required
• Spoken and written proficiency in English and Kiswahili

• Method of Application

Interested applicants who meet the criteria above are encouraged to apply. To submit your application; https://www.theyouthcafe.com/tyc-careers/data-science-intern

Closing Date: 9th May, 2021