The ResilientAfrica Network-RAN, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences (CHS), Makerere University is pleased to announce this year’s Student Internship positions for a period of 10 Weeks (4th June – 4th August 2015). Students will be exposed to a working environment that will give them hands-on assignments and project tasks to gain in-depth real world training, and acquisition of professional virtues and expertise.

Specifically the objectives of the internship will be:
•    To enable students acquire practical skills and experience to complement the theoretical knowledge acquired in class through project tasks that shall be assigned.
•    To facilitate students to develop formal and informal relationships that could guide their career development, communicate effectively with fellow workers and supervisors on issues related to projects undertaken.
•    To acquaint students with the organizational structure, team work, business operations, safety practices, administrative functions and social activities undertaken by organizations.
•    To help students attest and practice high-quality organizational skills in enhancing individual and group effectiveness and productivity and work effectively in teams.
•    To enable student  demonstrate creativity and innovation in solving problems related to real-life projects, good planning, good time management and quality delivery of project undertaken.
•    Students will be expected to present projects to the EARILab management at the end of this training period and  will be required to complete a log of activities that you have undertaken on a daily basis.
•    Equip students with outstanding organisational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.

Please see Downloads for Poster and more details

What does it take:
1.    The student understands the Innovation ecosystem . Who the players are, what do you have to watch out for, what’s trendy, innovative
2.    Excellent written and oral communication skills
3.    Understanding of the social media universe including LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, blogs etc.
4.    Solid understanding of the internet and social media marketing best practices

Application Deadline is 26th April 2015