Summer Associate, Strategic Learning & Impact

$30 - $35/Yr

The Rockefeller Foundation - New York, NY

- Intern

New York, NY

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About the position

The Rockefeller Foundation is seeking a Summer Associate for our Strategic Learning & Impact team. We value our Summer Associates and want to invest in and mentor future leaders who will grow personally and professionally and create an impact in the social sector. As a Summer Associate at The Rockefeller Foundation, you will have the chance to contribute to our initiatives through engaging, meaningful work assignments.

Responsibilities

• Develop intelligence on best practices for measuring and evaluating the impact of interventions that seek to reduce carbon emissions, improve biodiversity, soil, etc., and/or support people's adaptive capacity to climate change.
• Create questionnaires, stakeholder lists, etc. to help The Rockefeller Foundation understand readers' perceptions and feedback on its annual impact report; synthesize the results and recommendations from the inquiry.
• Support SL&I, program teams, and grantees on specific MEL workstreams such as developing theories of change, measurement frameworks, strategic learning questions, knowledge dissemination plans, etc.
• Curate and maintain the SL&I team's internal resource hub with key guidance documents and examples.

Requirements

• Currently enrolled in a graduate program in international development, international relations, public policy, public health, education, economics, business, technology, or a related field.
• Monitoring, evaluation, strategic learning, strategy development, and/or strategic planning experience in the philanthropic, not-for-profit, and/or private sectors.
• Comfort analyzing, synthesizing, visualizing, and communicating complex information (both quantitative and qualitative) pragmatically and compellingly to a wide range of audiences.
• Content expertise in one or more of the Foundation's areas of programmatic work including climate, energy, public health, food systems and nutrition, innovative finance, and economic opportunity preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Monday.com, and data visualization software preferred, and the ability to learn new applications quickly.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Must be a proactive self-starter.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States.
• Committed to the mission of the Foundation.

Nice-to-haves

• Content expertise in one or more of the Foundation's areas of programmatic work including climate, energy, public health, food systems and nutrition, innovative finance, and economic opportunity preferred.
• Proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Monday.com, and data visualization software preferred.

Benefits

• Hourly pay range of $30 - $35.
• Eligible for overtime pay.