Role Title: Research Intern

Urban Changemaker Coalition (UCC) offers a virtual internship opportunity for 1 team of 2 students or 2 individual students in a social science, research, urban studies, humanities, entrepreneurship, or other inter-disciplinary studies program.

Your Role:

Your role will be to assist a research project about local changemakers and what prevents them from solving deep-rooted urban challenges for their city. These cities may include: Merida, Mexico; Kathmandu, Nepal; Accra, Ghana; and more.

Core Responsibilities:

You will help us to

• Discover and summarize existing literature to extract pertinent insights
• Find and conduct background research on local changemakers
• Coordinate interviews with local changemakers and take interview minutes

Depending on your speed of work, you may:

• Create an organization structure for files, documents and materials for future reference
• Analyze trends in existing literature

By the end of the internship, we expect that you will have gathered significant data for this research project and uncovered some preliminary patterns.

Requirements:

• You must be a legal adult (18 or above).
• You must have a reliable access to internet, a working computer and headset, and a productive space to attend meetings.
• You must agree to keep all sensitive information accessed during this process confidential.
• You must adhere to responsible research and community-based participatory research principles.

What we expect from you:

• Expected time commitment is 80 hours over the course of 8 weeks.

What you can expect from us:

• Any meetings or communication will be through email and Microsoft Teams.
• You will receive a company email address under your name to use for the duration of the internship. This gives you access to Microsoft Office Suite, and UCC's SharePoint site.
• You will report directly to Rosaline Oh, Executive Director.
• You may be offered an ongoing freelance contract as a Research Assistant, dependent on performance.

You will directly report to Rosaline, Executive Director.

You will check in with Rosaline twice a week, during 20 min meetings. You can request more meetings if needed.

Every major deliverable will be thoroughly reviewed and receive detailed feedback.