Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Department: Impact (MEARL)
Reports To: Senior Associate, Data Systems, Quality & Analysis (with dotted line to Senior Associate, Field Monitoring & Accountability)
Job Type: Fixed Term Internship (6 months, with possible extension or conversion based on performance)
Working Model: On-site, 5 days a week
Travel Requirements: Regular domestic travel to schools and county sites (up to 30%)
About Food for Education
Hungry kids can't learn or grow.
Food4Education is an award-winning, locally rooted, and African-led solution to end classroom hunger. Building on more than a decade of learning by doing, we're powering a new school feeding industry and sharing our blueprint to scale sustainable, nutritious, and affordable school feeding programs across Africa.
Today, we serve 600,000 kids DAILY in Kenya. But every day, we deliver more than a meal – improving nutrition and education outcomes for children while also creating jobs and opportunities for whole communities.
We are an experienced and trusted non-profit partner that operates with the excellence of a global business, reinvesting the value we create into local economies.
To learn more, please visit www.food4education.org
Our Values
At Food for Education, our values are guiding principles that provide us with purpose and direction and set the tone for our interactions with all stakeholders:
Build with excellence and curiosity - We're not afraid to try new things and iterate as much as we can to find the best and most efficient way to get results;
Be the change you seek - We acknowledge that continuous improvement is a shared responsibility;
We do what we say; and say what we do - We embrace an ownership mentality;
Ask why; and commit - Share openly and question respectfully and commit fully. When we understand the why, we are able to work with a purpose.
About the Role
As Food4Education scales toward serving 1 million learners in Kenya by 2027 and 3 million across Africa by 2030, our Impact team is restructuring around four integrated workstreams: Measurement Systems & Data Quality; Field Data Collection & Quality; Research & Evaluation; and Insights, Reporting & Learning. The reliability of everything we report — to leadership, to donors, to government partners — depends on data being collected accurately at the source and structured cleanly upstream.
The Intern, Measurement Systems & Field Data Quality, works across two of our workstreams supporting the Associates who lead each. The intern will help design and refine data collection tools, run quality checks on incoming monitoring data, support training and coordination with field teams collecting data in schools and counties, and help document the standards and protocols that keep our data reliable as we scale. The role is designed as a structured learning experience: the intern will gain hands-on exposure to indicator design, tool development, field training, data quality assurance, and analysis, with coaching from experienced M&E practitioners.
Key Responsibilities
Measurement systems & data quality (~60%)
Support the Senior Associate, Data Systems, Quality & Analysis to build and refine digital data collection tools (KoboToolbox, ODK, SurveyCTO, CommCare or equivalent) for routine monitoring across schools, kitchens, and field activities.
Run regular data quality checks on incoming monitoring datasets — looking for completeness, consistency, missing values, outliers, and adherence to indicator definitions — and document issues for follow-up with field teams.
Help maintain indicator definitions, data dictionaries, and tool change logs so that what we measure stays standardized across regions and over time.
Conduct basic descriptive analyses of monitoring data in Excel, Google Sheets, STATA, R, or Python to help the team see what is happening in the field and surface anomalies early.
Field data collection & quality (~40%)
Support the Senior Associate, Field Monitoring & Accountability to plan and prepare data collection rounds with school leads, RPDAs, customer service teams, and other field roles.
Co-facilitate enumerator and field team trainings on tools, protocols, ethics, informed consent, and confidentiality — and help develop simple training materials, checklists, and job aids.
Conduct field visits to selected schools and county sites to observe data collection in practice, troubleshoot issues, and bring back ground-truth that improves tools and training.
Support pilot tests of new tools and indicators, document what works and what doesn't, and help iterate before full roll-out.
Cross-cutting
Help document standard operating procedures, QA protocols, and field guides so the next person inheriting this work has a clear playbook.
Participate in team learning sessions, sprint reviews, and OKR check-ins, and present your own work and findings on a regular cadence.
Take on stretch assignments aligned to your learning goals — for example, supporting an evaluation, contributing to a learning brief, or running a focused analysis.
Minimum Requirements
Education
Currently enrolled in or recently completed a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Social Sciences, Statistics, Economics, Development Studies, Data Science, Public Health, Nutrition or a related field. Coursework or specialisation in monitoring & evaluation, research methods, or applied data analysis is desirable.
Experience
At least 1–3 years of practical experience in data collection, enumeration, M&E, research, or community-based program work — paid, volunteer, internship, fieldwork, or research assistant experience all count.
Hands-on experience using mobile data collection tools such as KoboToolbox, ODK, CommCare, or SurveyCTO in real field settings, including handling sensitive or confidential data.
Some exposure to data quality checking, cleaning, or verification — spotting inconsistencies, flagging missing data, and following up with sources.
Experience working with vulnerable, diverse, or community-based populations, with demonstrated commitment to ethical data handling, informed consent, and confidentiality, is a strong plus.
Skills & Competencies
Comfortable with Excel and/or Google Sheets for organizing and analyzing data.
Detail-oriented and methodical — catches the small things in a dataset, a tool, or a protocol that others miss.
Strong written communication: can document what you did, what you found, and what should change, in a way someone else can act on.
Strong interpersonal and facilitation skills — able to build trust with field teams, school staff, and community members from a wide range of backgrounds.
Curious, coachable, and proactive: asks why, takes feedback well, and follows through without being chased.
Working proficiency in English and Kiswahili required; additional Kenyan or regional languages are an added advantage.
HOW TO APPLY:
Apply at https://food4education1.careers.hibob.com/jobs/8bb66e10-14f1-4c05-ae11-3c9bda92dd05
To apply, please submit your updated CV and answer the application questions listed. All applicants will receive communication on the outcome of their application, regardless of outcome.