Are you our next Insights, Research and Learning (IRL) Intern?

What We Offer

A meaningful internship where you’ll be part of an international work environment and a team passionate about improving maternal and newborn health. This internship offers valuable insights into how a global non-profit operates, with a specific focus on monitoring, evaluation, research and learning.

Throughout your internship, you will actively contribute to key IRL functions, and be considered a core IRL team member. With guidance and support from the Head IRL and team members, you will have the opportunity to take ownership of your own tasks and projects and gain hands-on experience in core monitoring and evaluation work. You will be able to develop self-leadership and essential workplace skills. We recognise the unique perspectives and energy that our interns bring, and we are committed to providing a meaningful learning and working experience.

Your Role

You will work closely with the Head and the IRL team members, assisting with daily tasks while also engaging in longer-term activities. Your specific responsibilities will be identified through conversation and discussion after your engagement, aligning your areas of interest and skill sets with organisational and IRL needs and objectives. These may include:

· Designing data collection tools for routine monitoring and special evaluations

· Using digital data collection platforms

· Analysing data – quantitative or qualitative

· Contributing to report writing, presentations, or drafting of academic articles.

· Conducting ad-hoc desk research on IRL priority topics

Who are you

We are looking for a proactive person with a teamwork and ‘go-for-it’ attitude, who is willing to learn. You are required to be a Bachelor’s or Master’s student whose internship is integrated into their academic program. Ideally you have a background in Global Health or similar fields with a strong interest in research methods. As this is an unpaid position, applicants should be receiving financial support from a third party (e.g., SU/CSN/Erasmus Stipendium or another student funding source).

Practicalities

About Maternity Foundation

We are a team of roughly 40 colleagues working across our three global hubs in Ethiopia, Denmark, and India. We come from various backgrounds – global health, midwifery, anthropology, IT, and business – and take pride in an entrepreneurial spirit and a can-do attitude. Together, we are an ambitious and purpose-driven team working in a welcoming and informal atmosphere.

Maternity Foundation (MF) is an international non-profit organisation that works to ensure safer births for women and new-borns through innovative programs and digital solutions. From 2025 MF will accelerate the impact of the Safe Delivery+ Programme, a comprehensive, evidence based micro-learning universe with the Safe Delivery App, a free, evidence-based job aid, learning and training tool designed to support predominantly midwives, at the centre. The programme is aimed at holistically addressing maternal and newborn healthcare challenges through a multitude of activities including a new SSA flagship initiative. The Safe Delivery+ Programme takes a lighthouse approach, where exemplary cutting-edge practices and solutions using the Safe Delivery+ Programme, act as frontrunners for innovative change which other countries can subsequently follow.

Read more here: About Maternity Foundation

Together, we work from a shared vision that it should not cost life to give life!