Health Strat

Health Information Systems (HIS) Interns

Number of Posts: 3

Background: Health Strat is an indigenous public health organization specializing in designing and implementing innovative health system solutions.

Health Strat implements donor funded programs in HIV/TB/RMNCAH/FP in Kenya, at both the national and county levels.

We are inviting applications from experienced and qualified individuals for the position of Health Information Systems (HIS) Intern.

About the Project

Monitoring and Evaluation & Strategic Information Systems (MESIS) is a project led by Health Strat in partnership with the National and AIDS STI Control Program (NASCOP) and University of Nairobi through a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

The project supports enhancing strategic information capacity for HIV/AIDS programs towards sustaining epidemic control in Kenya through monitoring and evaluation (M&E) and data science. The project implements several technological innovations in health information systems.

Position Summary

Reporting to the Lead Software Developer, the Health Information Systems Intern will be embedded within the software development team in the project to support development and enhancement of several technological innovations.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collection and documenting system requirements for development of information system.


• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code, including writing tests and test cases.


• Deployment, maintain, and administration of information systems including but not limited to assigning rights to users, maintaining backups, and providing support to users.


• Development of training materials and training of users, including conducting pre and post training assessments to gauge the effectiveness of the trainings.


• Designing databases including relational and no-SQL databases


• Work with various data sources including web services, APIs, Microsoft Excel, and csv etc.


• Any other duties assigned related to this job description.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or software engineering with a focus on software development or equivalent degree.


• Knowledge of Software Development Languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C#.


• Knowledge databases such us MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL and MSSQL, including writing SQL queries.


• Should have Unix/Linux and/or Windows Server and Desktop background.


• Knowledge and experience of writing Unix/Linux scripts will be an added advantage.


• Knowledge of working with Restful API will be an added advantage.

How to Apply

Interested applicants who meet the criteria above should send a cover letter detailing their suitability, a copy of their CV and contact information (name, email address and telephone) for three referees to recruitment@healthstrat.co.ke by 5pm EAT on July 5, 2023.

Applicants are required to include the position title they are applying for on the subject line of the email.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.