IT Intern, Zwedru, Liberia

Tiyatien Health is pleased to announce openings for summer internships with its programs, partnerships and operations teams in Liberia.

These are unpaid internships but offer tremendous opportunity for professional growth while being part of shaping systems and executing strategies for lasting impact. Interns will be an integral part of our teams and will work closely with our teams in Monrovia, Zwedru and Ziah Town in Grand Gedeh County to advance our mission of saving lives in last mile villages of Liberia.

About Tiyatien Health

Founded by survivors of Liberia’s civil war, Tiyatien Health (known in the United States as Last Mile Health) is a start-up NGO that is redefining how post-conflict nations rebuild rural public health services. Filling the massive health worker shortage in rural post-conflict areas, we recruit and train villagers to serve as frontline health workers, delivering home-based primary care services in villages previously thought unreachable.

Tiyatien Health closely partners with the Liberian Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Partners In Health, the Clinton Global Initiative, and Harvard Medical School, amongst others. Our frontline health worker model has been recognized by Draper Richards Kaplan, Echoing Green, the Mulago Foundation, PopTech! and the Forbes 400 Summit. We were recently featured by Forbes magazine as one of a small number of organizations with the potential to transform Liberia and countries throughout Africa.

IT Intern

Location: Zwedru, Ziah Town

Commitment: 3 months starting June 1, 2014

Reports to: Director of Operations

Overview of the role

The IT Intern will be responsible for assessing the current state of our IT systems, making recommendations for improvements, and implementing systems to allow us to make more effective use of technology.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Talk with staff to identify technology-related “pain points”, and come up with a strategy to prioritize and address pain points
• Implement and assess strategy across multiple program sites/offices, and train national staff members to ensure continued implementation of strategy
• Conduct professional development sessions for staff on the use of technology and software (e.g. MS Word/Excel, Google Apps including Google docs and calendar)
• Ensure that anti-virus and anti-malware software are running; standardize weekly scans
• Create/implement a system to ensure regular data backup on our NAS device.
• Research, select, and implement bandwidth management software to control internet usage

Required qualifications

• A strong passion for information technology systems, hardware, and software
• Extensive knowledge of the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office
• Experience with project management
• Commitment to health and social justice
• Generosity of spirit, sensitivity/diplomacy, and willingness to make sacrifices in service of the mission
• Flexibility and ability to handle multiple tasks at one time in time-sensitive manner
• High level of initiative to innovate and lead in remote and resource-limited settings
• Prior experience in a remote setting and willingness to travel to various program sites as needed

Preferred qualifications

• BA/BS from a competitive undergraduate university
• Experience with hardware repair/maintenance
• At least one years’ work experience in developing countries

How to apply:
Please submit all of the following materials with your application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

• Cover letter, including an expression of interest: In your own words, explain why you want to work with Tiyatien Health. What is it about the position that interests you? Why are you the right person for the role?
• Curriculum Vitae, including three professional references (should be current or former employers)

Please submit all materials via Tiyatien Health’s online submission platform at: http://www.jobscore.com/jobs/tiyatienhealth.