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Navigator Research Intern

Reports to: Associate, Polling & Analytics

Location: Washington, D.C. (3 days in office & 2 days remote each week)

Internship dates: 1/13/2025 through 4/11/2025

Status: Full-Time; Non-Exempt

Salary: $20/hour not to exceed 40 hours/week

Launched in 2016, The Hub Project is a nonprofit effort composed of a growing team of communications, research, operations, and organizing experts who have extensive experience in campaign strategy, digital, and polling and analytics. We believe in a country where everyone has the opportunity to succeed in our economy and participate in our democracy, and we make that vision a reality by partnering with advocacy groups – bringing surge capacity and coordination to build innovative and effective campaigns.

Position Summary: The Hub Project’s Navigator campaign is currently accepting applications for its Spring 2025 Internship. We are a fast-moving organization that is always ready to jump into the next fight, so the right person for the internship is not afraid of taking on new opportunities to move people to action and quickly responding to an ever-changing news cycle. As an intern for the Polling and Analytics team, you will be:

• Providing support and conducting background research to help inform questionnaire design
• Reading and understanding topline and cross tab data, and learning basic data analysis skills
• Reviewing verbatim open-ended responses from surveys and videos or transcripts from focus groups
• Creating and editing draft presentations or memos, social media content, and press releases using polling data
• Proofreading final deliverables prior to public release
• Monitoring public polling for key trends and communicating relevant data to internal campaign teams
• Performing other duties as assigned

About you:

• You have a demonstrated interest in progressive causes
• You are proficient in Google slides and sheets
• You are a skilled writer with the ability to modify messages and tone to move particular audiences
• You are an effective multi-tasker
• You are extremely organized, detail-oriented, and analytical

In addition, it would be a bonus if:

• You have taken coursework in statistics
• You have experience with a statistical package such as STATA, R, or SPSS
• You have experience working on progressive issue campaigns

Hiring Statement

The Hub is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. NVF is committed to attracting, developing and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVF’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working

E-Verify

NVF participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.

How to apply

This announcement will remain posted until the position is filled. Please note that only those individuals whose qualifications match the current needs of this position will be considered applicants and will receive responses from The Hub. Thank you for your interest.