UN Women: Research and Data Analytics Intern, Bonn, Germany

United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women - UN Women

Internship Closes 15 Jul 2026 2 days left

Overview

Support advanced quantitative and mixed-methods analysis of UN Trust Fund demand datasets to generate strategic insights for internal decision-making and broader ecosystem learning.


Key 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
  • Support the development of analytical models that examine how macro-level shifts may influence 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
  • Support the development of recommendations for institutionalizing annual demand analysis
  • Explore opportunities for methodological replication with other feminist funds, research institutions, and funding partners
  • Support documentation of methodology to strengthen future cross-funder collaboration
Required Experience
  • Experience with statistical software (R, Stata, Python, or similar)
  • Experience with mixed methods research preferred
  • Ability to analyze large datasets
Qualifications
  • University studies in one of the following disciplines: economics, public health, public policy, sociology, gender studies, political science, development studies, statistics, data science, or related fields.
  • Candidates must meet one of the following:
  • Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
  • Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor's level or equivalent);
  • Have graduated with a university degree and, if selected, 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.
Other Details
Languages Required
Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required.
Languages Preferred
Working knowledge of Spanish and/or French are an advantage.
Contract Duration
Not specified
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the internship.
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