Global Health Associate - Summer 2024

Summer 2024 – Global Health Associate
The Kaizen Company (Kaizen) is an international development consulting firm and an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. We aspire to transform the nature and impact of international development and work to strengthen organizations and institutions through innovative approaches to organizational development, reform, and change. Kaizen is currently seeking undergraduate and graduate students to join our dynamic team as Associates (interns). Associates are given the opportunity to meaningfully contribute to all aspects of Kaizen’s work and seamlessly integrate in our collegial culture. Kaizen Associates are important members of our teams with room to grow in an initiative-driven workspace.
This internship is best suited for undergraduate or graduate students receiving a degree in public health, health system, or health financing, interested in entering the field of international development. The Kaizen Company will compensate the Associate based on DC minimum wage hourly rate of $17.05. It is expected that the selected Associate will work a minimum of 32 hours per week in the Summer, beginning on or about May 28th – August 16th, 2024. Associates will have the opportunity to work remotely, from any virtual location with reliable internet.
Duties include (but are not limited to):

• Capture/bid support (PMU will serve in coordinator role but associate can provide ad hoc support as needed)
• Infrastructure building for practice area
• Develop background document or one pager on sector.
• Competitive landscape analysis
• Small business research
• Compiling a list of good candidates for specific health and acceleration practices
• Conduct a literature review on specific themes (for example MNCH, Health Security and Risk, and Health Systems)
• Build the groundwork for health and acceleration networking within the sector with universities, research institutes, and implementers.

The ideal candidate:

• Is currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program (required)with a degree in public health, health system, or health financing.
• Is an entrepreneurial self-starter and works well without excessive supervision.
• Has previous professional experience, ideally working in consulting, management, organizational reform, research, or international development.
• Is interested in entering the field of international development.
• Has strong research skills.
• Has strong attention to detail.
• Can prioritize and manage competing deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Demonstrates excellent written and oral communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with approaches to complex international development issues.
• Gain practical understanding of business development processes through participation in many aspects of proposal development for new projects, including recruitment, compliance management, technical project design, and budgeting.
• Learn the basic principles of donor project management through on-the-job and formal training related to Kaizen’s contracts funded by USAID, the Department of State, and other clients.
• Support corporate strategic objectives and participate in thematic working groups.
• Undertake substantial research efforts to contribute to refining and developing technical approaches in health and acceleration.

If you are interested in this position and have most or all of the desired qualifications, please submit a CV and the names and contact information for 3 references (professional and/or academic).The preferred location for this role is in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area.

For candidates applying for positions based in Kaizen's office in Washington, DC, we utilize career.place to mitigate bias in the recruitment process. Upon submitting an application, candidates will receive an email from career.place, prompting them to go through the anonymous screening. In order to be considered for a role, candidates must respond to career.place and proceed with the application. We do not currently use career.place for project positions outside of the United States.

At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.

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