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 Food4Education

Food4Education is an award-winning, African-led nonprofit tackling classroom hunger with a locally rooted, scalable model. 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 over 600,000 learners daily in Kenya, but what we deliver goes beyond the meal. Each plate improves nutrition, fuels learning, and creates jobs that uplift entire communities. We are an experienced, trusted non-profit partner that operates with the excellence of a global business, reinvesting the value we create into local economies.

Over the past decade, F4E has scaled its reach exponentially, serving 160 million cumulative meals since its inception, and growing from just 25 children fed daily in 2012 to over 600,000 learners receiving meals every single day in 2026. With our presence now spanning 13 counties, we’re delivering daily meals to children in 1,650+ public schools and ECD centers. Parents pay for these meals through a mobile money system linked to NFC wristbands, which their children wear and ‘Tap2Eat’ in under 5 seconds to access their meal.

F4E is growing quickly. Our mission is to scale a model that prioritises efficient supply chain management and sustainable sourcing, so we can continue lowering the cost of school meals. We have served over 150,000,000 meals since 2012 and are expanding to reach 1 million learners in Kenya by 2027 and another 2 million across Africa by 2030.

Our Values

At Food4Education, 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 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.

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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in nutrition, public health, food production, or other experience relevant to F4E’s school feeding work.

• Prior experience supporting enumerator or field team trainings, or co-facilitating community sessions.

• Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis.

• Comfort with travel to school and county sites for field visits and data collection support.

What Success Looks Like

• Within the first 60 days, the intern is independently running routine data quality checks on assigned monitoring datasets and providing clear, structured flags back to field teams.

• Data collection tools the intern contributes to are well-tested, well-documented, and used in the field with minimal support tickets.

• Field teams describe the intern as a helpful, respectful, and reliable partner during trainings and field visits.

• By the end of the internship, the intern has visibly grown in technical M&E skills (tool design, QA, basic analysis) and has produced a portfolio of work — cleaned datasets, training materials, SOPs, short analyses — they can point to in their next role.

• Strong intern performance creates a potential pathway toward an Associate role on the Impact team.

What Is in It for You?

We have a strong culture of constant learning and we invest in developing our people. As an intern, you will be paired with experienced Senior Associates who will coach you in M&E methods, data quality, and field operations. You will have weekly check-ins with your manager, regular feedback on your performance, and structured learning goals. Strong interns at F4E have grown into Associate and Senior Associate roles, and we approach the internship as a launching pad, not a holding pattern.

Join Us

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.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued and people are supported to do their best work. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and lived experiences and make employment decisions based on merit, potential, and alignment with our values.