🇩🇪 Internship in Germany 📊 Research and Data Analytics at UN Women 📈 (Paid)

Do you want to use data to shape the future of funding that ends violence against women and girls? UN Women is offering a Research and Data Analytics Internship in Bonn, supporting the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women through advanced quantitative and mixed-methods analysis.

About UN Women and the UN Trust Fund

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls, the empowerment of women, and the achievement of equality between women and men. Within UN Women, the United Nations Trust Fund to End Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) is the only global UN funding mechanism dedicated exclusively to providing direct grants to civil society organizations working to prevent and end all forms of violence against women and girls. It has funded over 700 initiatives in over 140 countries and territories, with survivor-centered investments aimed at sustainable, long-term impact. In 2025 alone, it received nearly 4,000 applications requesting over USD 2 billion. As the Trust Fund enters its 30th anniversary and implements its 2026-2030 Strategic Plan, a strategic priority is to move toward rigorous predictive, longitudinal and strategic analysis. Under the supervision of the Global Lead, Learning and Impact, the intern supports advanced quantitative and mixed-methods analysis of the Trust Fund's demand datasets.

What You'll Do

📊 Advanced analysis of 2025 Call for Proposals demand data: conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis, identify emerging thematic trends across regions, populations and forms of violence, examine trends related to conflict, displacement, climate shocks, shrinking civic space, legal reforms, technology-facilitated violence and economic insecurity, and support cleaning, coding and structuring of datasets.

🌍 Macro-level trend analysis: explore relationships between Trust Fund demand data and external datasets and indices, including conflict trends, climate vulnerability, civic space indices, gender inequality indicators, violence prevalence, legal and policy trends, and funding supply data, and support analytical models of how macro-level shifts influence demand.

📈 Longitudinal analysis: analyze historical application data (up to three decades where available), identify longer-term shifts in funding demand priorities, responses and risks, and assess how requests have evolved across thematic priorities, geographies and organizational profiles.

📝 Strategic products: draft an internal analytical paper with future scenarios, prepare presentation materials for senior leadership and donor engagement, respond to ad hoc analytical requests, and support recommendations for institutionalizing annual demand analysis.

🤝 Knowledge sharing: explore methodological replication with other feminist funds and research institutions, and support documentation of methodology.

Expected Deliverables

📄 One analytical paper on emerging trends in funding demand, one PowerPoint presentation for leadership, a cleaned and documented dataset/codebook (as feasible), methodological recommendations for future annual demand analysis, and ad hoc analytical inputs as requested.

Who Can Apply

🎓 University studies in economics, public health, public policy, sociology, gender studies, political science, development studies, statistics, data science or related fields.

📘 Be enrolled in a graduate school programme, in the final academic year of a first university degree (minimum bachelor's level), have graduated and commence within two years of graduation, or be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship that is part of a degree programme.

Strong quantitative analysis skills, experience with statistical software (R, Stata, Python or similar), experience with mixed methods research (preferred), the ability to analyze large datasets, strong writing and presentation skills, the ability to translate technical findings for non-technical audiences, and an interest in gender equality, feminist movements and ending violence against women and girls are required.

Languages

Excellent written and oral English is required. Working knowledge of Spanish and/or French is an advantage.

The Details

📍 Location: Bonn, Germany (full time).

🗓️ Initial contract duration: 3 months.

💶 Interns not receiving financial support from other sources (such as universities or institutions) will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs. The successful candidate must provide proof of valid health insurance at the duty station, proof of school enrollment or degree, a scanned passport/national ID and a valid visa (as applicable).