Responsibilities

Living Goods at is looking for an intern to work with the global programs team to support on multiple program and operation improvement initiatives. This intern will report to the Senior Advisor Programs Strategy and Excellence. The Inter will be responsible for providing administrative support and document review on several key initiative including a family planning social behavioral change initiative, roll out of a new project management approach and development/ revision of operational manuals and guidelines, among others.

Meeting support

• Schedule meetings:  Reviewing calendars of meeting attendees and collaborating with support staff to schedule meeting.
• support in meetings by ensuring effective note taking.
• Follow up on meeting action items to ensure follow through on staff commitments.
• Support in the development of presentations and pre reads for meetings.

Reports and Documentation

• Support document development, compiling key resources and summarizing inputs.
• Serve as an and editor for new documents that are created including formatting and copy editing as needed.
• Support with the coordination of document review come on providing advanced notice to reviewers and following up to help ensure the review is completed.

Knowledge Management

• Support the team to collect key documentation, summarize documents, and index them using standardized templates.
• Review new documents summaries created by other colleagues for completeness and working links.
• Coordinate content updates with other LG teams and update the content tracker. Follow up with colleagues as needed to ensure timely sharing of new resources.

Coordination

• Support in tracking key actions for the team and check-in to ensure timeline are followed.

Other tasks as needed.

Requirements

Skills Required

• Good attention to detail.
• Document editing skills.
• Effective note taking skill that ensure key points, agreements, and follow up actions are captured with relevant detail.
• Proficient on Microsoft suite including Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks at once.
• Strong organization skill, including organizing resources in an intuitive structure.

Experience

• BSc Degree with at least 1 year’s working experience.
• Experience or course work related policy, health, writing/communication, or related topic (preferred).