Research and Data Analytics Intern

The intern will support advanced quantitative and mixed-methods analysis of the UN Trust Fund’s demand datasets to generate strategic insights for internal decision-making and broader ecosystem learning. This includes analyzing funding demand trends, macro-level shifts, and longitudinal data to inform strategic foresight and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of 2025 Call for Proposals application data.
• Identify emerging thematic trends in funding demand across regions, populations, and forms of violence.
• Examine trends related to conflict, displacement, climate-related shocks, shrinking civic space, legal reforms, technology-facilitated violence, and economic insecurity.
• Support cleaning, coding, and structuring of quantitative and qualitative datasets for analysis.
• Explore relationships between UN Trust Fund demand data and external datasets/indices including conflict trends, climate vulnerability indicators, civic space indices, gender inequality indicators, violence prevalence data, legal and policy trends, and funding supply data.
• Support development of analytical models examining macro-level shifts influencing funding demand patterns.
• Analyze historical Trust Fund application data to identify longer-term shifts in funding demand priorities, responses, and risks.
• Develop a draft internal analytical paper summarizing key findings including future scenarios.
• Prepare presentation materials for senior leadership and donor engagement.
• Respond to ad hoc analytical requests from leadership related to regional trends, forms of violence, or funding demand shifts.
• Support development of recommendations for institutionalizing annual demand analysis as a recurring strategic product.
• Explore opportunities for methodological replication with other feminist funds, research institutions, and funding partners.
• Support documentation of methodology to strengthen future cross-funder collaboration.

Requirements

• University studies in economics, public health, public policy, sociology, gender studies, political science, development studies, statistics, data science, or related fields.
• Candidates must be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher); or be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent); or have graduated with a university degree and must commence the internship within a two-year period of graduation; or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program which is part of a degree programme and undertake the internship as part of the program requirements.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required.
• Working knowledge of Spanish and/or French are an advantage.
• Strong quantitative analysis skills.
• Experience with statistical software (R, Stata, Python, or similar).
• Experience with mixed methods research preferred.
• Ability to analyze large datasets.
• Strong writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical findings for non-technical audiences.
• Interest in gender equality, feminist movements, and ending violence against women and girls.

Skills

• Quantitative Analysis
• Mixed-Method Research
• Statistical Software Stata
• STATA
• Python
• Data Analysis
• Large-scale Dataset Analysis
• Report Writing
• Presentation Skills
• Technical Translation
• Gender Equality Analysis
• Policy Analysis
• Economic Analysis
• Public Health Analysis

Languages

English, Spanish, French