Data and Evaluation Internship Overview: The Data and Evaluation student intern will be tasked with aiding NCCADV’s Evaluation Director as part of the NCCADV Prevention Team’s ongoing evaluation projects. The Prevention team currently has 4 dedicated prevention initiatives that all work together at the state and community levels to prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) and which are funded through the CDC’s DELTA AHEAD program. The Director of Evaluation manages the evaluation of all these Prevention projects as well as other organization-wide evaluation projects. While broad responsibilities are outlined below, the Evaluation Director will work with the student intern to ensure internship projects meet the educational and work-related qualifications required by the student’s university.
Responsibilities: Internship responsibilities include assisting the Evaluation Director and the Prevention Team in three main areas:
1. Creating evaluation tools for DELTA AHEAD state-level and community-level program and policy efforts
2. Managing data collection for DELTA AHEAD state-level and community-level program and policy efforts and
3. Analyzing state-wide Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), Domestic Violence (DV) and/or IPV Prevention Data as it becomes available.
This may include but is not limited to:
- Assisting Evaluation Director in development of survey tools, questionnaires, and focus group discussion guides for DELTA AHEAD program and policy efforts;
- Assisting Evaluation Director in developing and conducting a focus group discussion training for community-level partners;
- Assisting Evaluation Director in cleaning surveys and questionnaire data for analysis, and coding focus group discussion transcripts;
- Creating data visualizations for data that is collected by NCCADV or available from partner agencies;
Research national or state-level data sources pertinent to DV, IPV, or IPV Prevention for updating DELTA AHEAD’s Resource Inventory; - Assist with research, writing, and/or editing of evaluation reports as needed.
Qualifications:
- Interest in Violence Prevention
- Desire to enhance qualitative data skills, including conducting, coding, and analyzing focus group discussion data
- Experience with creating and maintaining spreadsheets and cleaning quantitative datasets
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Initiative and ability to work independently and as a member of a team
- Understanding of Microsoft Word, Excel, and graphic design/data visualization tools or programs
Required Major: Public Health, Data Informatics, or related to data analysis
Required Year: Graduate level preferred
Preferred Skills:
- Knowledge of the dynamics of domestic violence/IPV
- Ability to connect primary prevention of IPV with structural determinants and root causes of violence.
- Ability to demonstrate a strong anti-oppression/anti-racism analysis and to apply that analysis in evaluation work
- Knowledge of quantitative and qualitative public health evaluation best practices
