Intern position vacancy: Humanitarian technical support officer
Update 16th July 2021 – due to high amount of applicants – the vacancy is closed early.
(internship – 2 positions)
Maternal Health – Emergency Shelter – Relief supplies – Clean Energy – Sanitation
Do you wish to support (local) NGOs, aid workers and health care professionals world-wide with your time and expertise? Are you ready to kickstart your career with a challenging intern position while contributing to knowledge build-up in the humanitarian or development aid sector? We are hiring! The Solvoz Foundation has intern positions open from today!
Introducing the Solvoz Foundation
The Solvoz Foundation is enabling open-access knowledge for non-governmental organisations, social mission organisations, charities and health organisations in an freely accessible solutions catalogue. Solvoz supports users (non-governmental organisations, health organisations or charities) to search based on an need to address. Solvoz helps users to identify the right solutions by technical support; define relevant criteria to assure fit for purpose and context solutions. Solutions can be packages, kits, products, services, designs or combinations of those.
The Foundation works together with the start-up Solvoz. Solvoz provides a platform that integrates the catalogue with a procurement workflow (SaaS) online. Learn more about the support provided by watching our short explainer video of Steven, a clinic supervisor in Kenya.
Explaining your internship in two paragraphs
During your internship you will help expanding the globally accessible knowledge base for one of the following domains: 1. Maternal Health, 2. Emergency Shelter, 3. Relief Supplies, 4. Clean Energy, 5. Sanitation. Within your domain/sector you will define a specific sub area (for example toilets or pit toilets for Sanitation, NFI for relief supplies etc) to contribute to. During your internship we will support you and connect you with relevant experts, partners or agencies.
You will help define and translate guidance documents and manuals into practical solutions and kits. You will create solutions according the Solvoz Standard, write solution descriptions, apply responsible logic (define pre-requisite of a solution for example), search for existing solutions, products and services), innovations and current catalogues. Apply product and sector standards and make them understandable for the wider public. Liaise with experts and organisations.
Requirements
- You are fluent in English and currently enrolled or recently graduated from an academic institute.
- You have a structured work approach, think logical and are able to synthesize information quickly from various sources and able to define relevant material and criteria.
- You have great writing skills, meaning: you are able to write clear descriptions, and able to consolidate information quickly. You are able to translate from professional literature, practical guidelines and other material towards supporting descriptions, solutions and guidance for our users.
- You relish to learn more in your area of choice in our sector and wish to support our users with the outcome of this!
Basic Information
- Hours: Flexible working hours (parttime: 20 hours/week)
- Location: Working from home
- Start date: As soon as possible – applications on a rolling basis
- Duration: Initially 3 months
- Intern Compensation available
How to apply
Please send us a cover letter including your motivation and expectations for this internship position. Make sure you indicate for which of the internships and domain (working area) you apply. Apply before the 25th of July 2021 and send your letter to info@solvoz.com. If you have any questions, you can contact Claire Barnhoorn at claire@solvoz.com or use our contact form.
You can also download this vacancy here: Intern Positions Summer 2021 – Solvoz Foundation
If you would like to intern with us and we have not listed your domain of expertise (eg clean cooking stoves, electronic waste management or HIV/Hep rapid test kits), but you are convinced this should be covered too for our users, please write us a note. We relish to hear from you to! Because if it serves our users and our mission, you are probably right that we should include this!
