The International Crisis Group’s Future of Conflict Program is looking for a quantitative research voluntary intern to assist its analysts and fellows in their research activities. This is a desk-based position with a focus on climate security. The voluntary internship is an excellent opportunity for someone to learn about conflict and climate analysis and advocacy work but also to gain valuable experience in a high-profile international NGO.
Responsibilities:
- Prepares data for research, including the data construction, cleaning, and basic analytical tasks with minimal supervision;
- Helps design, implement and evaluate research, and automates research insights, the latter to help building internal data capacities;
- The candidate should be able to write their own summaries of research, perform literature reviews, and retrieve information from the web;
- The candidate will work closely with FoC researchers and regional teams within the organization;
- Previous experience working on climate security, infrastructure, or regional focus on the Horn of Africa is a plus.
Job requirements
- Background in economics, computer science, statistics, social sciences, geography, environmental and earth studies, natural sciences or any other discipline using econometrics and data management. Candidates must hold a bachelor’s degree or equivalent, and having a Master’s is a plus;
- (Advanced) coding skills in Stata, R, Python, or similar;
- Fluency with statistics and econometrics;
- Strong writing and research skills;
- Geospatial data skills, preferably in R or Python; experience working with ArcGIS/QGIS is of advantage.
- Knowledge of how to work with high resolution data, and data manipulation, especially raster data analysis;
- Data management skills, specifically of large data volumes ;
- Data visualization experience is an advantage, but not a must;
- Experience in scraping information from the web to build a dataset using automated tools is a plus;
- Interest in pursuing (or gaining exposure to) research related to conflict and public policy;
- Based in Nairobi, New York, Brussels, or remote.
Please apply on the official website using the link(s) below
