Technical Programming Intern

iDE is an international nonprofit dedicated to combating poverty in the developing world not through handouts, but by helping rural households access the tools and knowledge they need to increase their income and improve their health and well-being. iDE has 40 years of experience and programs in 11 countries in Africa, South Asia, South East Asia, and Central America.

IDE's vision, to catalyze the power of entrepreneurship to allow millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty, is ambitious and bold. We need a person who is, first and foremost, passionate about this vision.

Our technical work takes a market-based, multi-sectoral approach to empowering rural communities. We design and scale sustainable solutions across Agriculture (boosting smallholder crop yields and market access) and WASH (delivering climate-resilient water and sanitation products) and Nutrition (improving household food security and health outcomes through diversified, market-driven food systems). This foundation is deeply integrated with Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) and Women’s Entrepreneurship, ensuring women and marginalized groups are active leaders and business owners in local value chains.

The Global technical teams offer strategic guidance and support across the global portfolio to drive integrated, climate-resilient, and inclusive market programming.

Requirements

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Technical Documentation & AI Integration

The primary focus of this internship is to modernize our global technical assets and leverage generative AI to streamline project design. To do so, you will:

• Collaborate across sectors to support the comprehensive review and update of our written technical best practice guidance documents, called Approaches, spanning Agriculture, WASH, GESI, Women’s Entrepreneurship, and Nutrition.
• Align and adapt the updated best practice documentation to interface with Gemini AI, configuring templates and prompts to effectively leverage these assets for rapid, high-quality proposal writing.

Tool Development & Optimization

• Support the review, restructuring, and updating of programmatic budgeting tools to ensure accurate financial modeling for complex, multi-sector projects.
• Design and build a cross-sector assessment tool that enables global teams to evaluate, track, and design new projects that successfully integrate best practices across all core sectors.

Knowledge Management & Analysis

• Work in close collaboration with Technical Managers to understand and evaluate the team's current data management and software tool approaches.
• Propose updated data, version control, or code management structures for maintaining and tracking key tools for the global portfolio.
• Improve algorithmic processes and data practices to