Overview
Internship supporting the IDSF Secretariat with a focus on development finance, quantitative analysis, data management, and economic research.
Key Responsibilities
- Support analysis of financing opportunities for durable solutions.
- Conduct desk research on development finance trends and fiscal space.
- Maintain trackers on donor engagement and financing instruments.
- Prepare briefing notes and analytical inputs.
- Collect, clean, and organize quantitative and qualitative data.
- Support the development of Excel trackers, dashboards, and visualizations.
- Assist with analysis of country-level data to identify trends and financing gaps.
- Support assessment of economic and social returns of investments.
- Prepare background research on priority countries.
- Assist with requests from Resident Coordinator Offices and UN Country Teams.
- Support meeting preparation, note-taking, and action tracking.
- Provide ad hoc analytical and administrative support.
Required Experience
- Academic background or demonstrated interest in economics, finance, development finance, public policy, statistics, data analytics or a related field.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with demonstrated ability to work with Excel and structured datasets.
- Experience conducting desk research, literature reviews, financial or economic analysis, data cleaning or data visualization is desirable.
- Familiarity with public finance, multilateral development banks, development finance institutions, donor financing, results frameworks or investment-case development is an asset.
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, Stata, R, Python, GIS, advanced Excel or other analytical tools would be an advantage.
- Knowledge of internal displacement, durable solutions, fragile contexts or humanitarian-development collaboration would be helpful.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme or higher);
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as a bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
- Have recently graduated with a university degree, as defined above, and, if selected, start the internship within one year of graduation; or
- Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship programme and undertake the internship as part of this programme
