Volunteer Intern, Quantitative Research at International Crisis Group-apply!

Vacancy Description

To support its analysts and fellows in their research, the International Crisis Group’s Future of Conflict Program is seeking a volunteer intern with experience in quantitative research. This is a desk job where the main responsibility is climate security. In addition to learning about conflict and climate analysis and advocacy work, the voluntary internship is a great way for someone to obtain important experience working for a well-known 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 any field that uses econometrics and data management, such as economics, computer science, statistics, social sciences, geography, environmental and earth studies, or the natural sciences. A bachelor’s degree or its equivalent is required of candidates, while a master’s degree is preferred;
• (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

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