Research Analyst Intern (Spring and/or Summer)

Company: Just Results

Title: Spring Research Analyst (internship)

Time Commitment: 30 hours/week

Location: The internship requires in-person work at the coworking space in Washington DC, for learning and participation purposes. Minimal remote engagement may be considered.

Stipend: $1500 per month

Deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. The final day an application will be accepted is Friday, March 20th, 11:59pm ET.

About Just Results

Just Results is a woman-led company that uses data to support economic growth. Since our inception in 2018, we have worked in over thirty countries in partnership with non-profits, private philanthropic organizations, business schools, technical assistance agencies and development finance institutions.

We are specialized in digital trade and online government services and have launched a tech start-up aiming to offer the world’s best user experience for online administrative transactions.  Other areas of expertise include monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for economic and social development programs, labor market assessments for youth employment, and agricultural value chain and market systems analysis.

We employ a core team of consultants, and work with a broader network of specialists throughout the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. We, and this internship, are based in DC at Open Gov Hub. 

Just Results’ sister start-up, ZForm helps individuals and businesses complete government procedures through a mobile app. We work directly with governments to adapt ZForm, so users can request any service across areas of trade, operations, legal, records, payments, and benefits.

Research Analyst Intern

We are looking for a highly motivated intern who can work 20-30 hours per week during the school year, with the possibility to extend to full-time in the summer. As a Spring Research Analyst, you will contribute technically and operationally to Just Results projects related to economic development. These may include baseline studies, project midterm or endline evaluations, strategic reviews, or specific targeted studies such as looking at customs paperwork to get across borders in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), demand for horticulture exports from Ethiopia, or analyzing global survey data on credit unions. This role will require quantitative and qualitative data and research skills and will involve creating graphics, sorting and analyzing data, writing reports and memos, providing quality control (QC) for documents, and taking meeting notes, among other tasks and responsibilities.

Key responsibilities of the intern include: 

• Technical: The intern will substantively contribute to both ongoing projects and business development opportunities, and will be solely responsible for certain tasks (with support as needed). Responsibilities include:
  • Research: 
    • Support research design, data collection, and data analysis. 
    • Contribute research, writing inputs, graphics and data visualization, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and quality control to our project and proposal deliverables. 
    • Learn how to use Qualtrics and Dedoose (quantitative and qualitative data analysis tools)
    • Participate in client meetings, take notes, and support project team leaders to prepare presentations
  • Business development search: 
    • Contribute to proposals as needed.
    • Do a weekly search for new business development opportunities across a range of sources, and update a central spreadsheet visible to the whole team. 
    • Present new opportunities to your supervisor, and discuss them with the team in business development meetings. 
• Operational tasks: Similar to the intern’s technical responsibilities, they will also have both ad hoc and recurring operational tasks, some of which they will be the owner of. 
  • Notetaking: 
    • Take notes in all team and client meetings you are in, and share with the respective project manager for review as well as uploading to the appropriate Drive folder (see below).
  • Google Drive management: 
    • Implement a new plan (already created) for organizing the company’s Google Drive folder system, which contains all project, proposal, administrative, and financial documentation.
    • Log ongoing documents as needed.
  • CRM management:
    • Support transition to new CRM
  • CV management
    • Solidify CV template and explore options to automate formatting. Maintain structure of files and add and update new consultant CVs as needed.

Qualifications

• Recently graduated undergraduate or graduate student studying international relations, international development, economics, or a related field (graduate preferred)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present findings clearly to diverse audiences
• Proficient using Microsoft Excel (comfortable with using formulas such as VLOOKUP, SUMIF, COUNTIF, etc.) Useful skills in other statistical software (R, STATA, etc.) are a plus
• Proficient in creating PowerPoint presentations 
• Professional proficiency in French or Spanish (speaking and reading) is highly desirable. Added proficiency in another language is a plus
• Knowledge of essential data and research resources such as World Bank, UNDP, IMF, etc.
• Precision, attention to detail, and ready to work in a team

How to apply: 

Please send your application directly to Allie Miller at allie@justresultsllc.com. Your application should include:

• A cover letter explaining why you are interested in the position and what you bring to it
• Your resume 
• A work sample (research paper or any other work product you wish to share)

Be sure to specify in your application whether you are interested in (1) spring only, (2) spring and summer, or (3) summer only. Deadline for spring only or spring and summer: March 20th, 11:59pm ET. Deadline for summer: April 1, 11:59pm ET. Applications are rolling. Internships will run Apr-May and/or Jun-Jul-Aug with time in there (especially during summer) for 1-2 weeks of vacation or multiple flex weekends. The internship is in person in Washington DC at our co-working space, Open Gov Hub on 13thand Mass Ave.