Summer 2024 Education Policy Internship

Role: Summer 2024 Education Policy Internship

Start Date: June 10 

Pay: $20 per hour

Duration:  Approximately 10 weeks

Location: Remote

Hours: Up to 20 per week

About the organization: 

Education Reform Now is a national organization that develops and drives forward bold, new ideas aimed at transforming the American public education system and better serving all students, especially low-income students and students of color.

Education Reform Now publishes original research, white papers, and issue briefs analyzing trends and exploring new, forward-leaning ideas in education. We help shape the education policy narrative through mass media. We publish magazine articles, op-eds, and blog posts, as well as advise federal, state and local officials and community-based organizations on education policy. 

About this role:

Are you interested in the world of issue advocacy and policy research? ERN is searching for a self-motivated, high-energy, and organized individual with experience in research and a high comfort level with search engines, web browsers, databases, and common office software. 

Responsibilities include:

• Perform background research and assist in drafting of issue briefs and memos on policy focus areas, including: assessments, accountability, public school choice, human capital, and resource equity
• Compile and interpret statistics and other information from public sources 
• Manage, organize, and generate summary statistics and graphs on Excel

Requirements

Key qualifications:

• Strong personal values that align with ERN’s vision and mission and demonstrated passion for ensuring that all students have a just and equitable education
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical & quantitative skills
• Can quickly analyze complex education data sets using Excel and report conclusions and trends accurately
• Inquisitive about using data to better understand policy outcomes and self-motivated to probe facts and figures to learn more
• Understands and can apply basic descriptive and inferential statistics concepts 
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex subject matter into easily consumable written products 

Benefits

Commitment to Diversity: 

ERN welcomes applications from all, and strongly encourages women, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, refugees & LGBTQ people to apply for this position. We are committed to maximizing the diversity of our organization and recruiting a team that reflects the diversity of the students we serve.