Safaricom has announced that it will be recruiting 40 female university students out of the earmarked 62 interns under its internship program by January 2017.
This is in an attempt to woo more women to the technology field and it is under the Women In Technology initiative.
The other 22 interns will be made up of 4 to be filled through the Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya and 18 open to to all university applicants.
According to Thibaud Rerolle, Director – Technology, Safaricom, “Our technology internship program is built on the knowledge that in order to continue Transforming Lives, we must continue to invest in building capacity to manage cutting edge technologies.”
Safaricom’s Women In Technology initiative started in 2013 and it has contributed to more female engineers joining Safaricom, lifting the ratio of female to male engineers in the company from 9% in 2013 to 20% today. To date, more than 320 students have undergone the technology Internships, with Safaricom absorbing 22 former interns to full-time positions with more than 30 others employed by other industry players.
Internships are open to Kenyan applicants, preferably those in their 3rd to 5th year of study in ICT related fields including Computer Science, Information Technology, Electrical and Electronics Engineering or Telecommunications Engineering. Applicants must not have graduated.
Successful applicants will job shadow Safaricom engineers in their roles, before being assigned practical projects and duties. Applications for all internships are open on the Safaricom Careers portal and will close on 28th November 2016.
