Job Description

Save the Children

For over 100 years, Save the Children has been fighting for the rights of children. The right to a healthy start in life. To have access to education. To be in a safe environment, protected from harm. We work in some of the world’s hardest-to-reach places – over 100 countries, including the U.S. No matter what your role is, when you join Save the Children, you’re creating positive, irreversible change for children, and the future we all share.

The Role

The Impact & Evidence (I&E) division is committed to ensuring evidence-based solutions address the underlying causes of marginalization and developing insights into the inhibiting factors for child protection. The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) is a team of applied researchers and knowledge professionals that collaboratively generate and disseminate research across all sectors, including education, child protection, health, and livelihoods, that bridges the humanitarian and development nexus. We support program colleagues with evidence to inform high-quality programs. The evidence we generate and share drives thought leadership and advocacy globally. We are seeking an intern to support the MERL team to strengthen knowledge management systems, organize resources, and assist with data cleaning, analysis, and visualization for education projects, focusing on learning outcomes data from the Holistic Assessment of Learning and Development Outcomes – Adolescents tool and the Assessment for Lifesaving Learning tool – two newly developed assessments to measure outcomes from education programs in crises - as well as support special initiatives based on the interns interests.

Location

Hybrid – Washington DC, Fairfield, CT or Lexington, KY office locations

What You’ll Be Doing (Essential Duties)

*not inclusive of all role responsibilities. May be subject to change

Interns will support knowledge management and data analysis for learning assessment and education projects, specifically supporting learning outcomes measurement. This includes organizing resources, improving data accessibility, and contributing to reporting and learning products.

Key Tasks:

• Organize and streamline knowledge resources across platforms for easy access.
• Assist with cleaning, validating, and analyzing datasets using statistical tools.
• Develop summaries, visualizations, and briefs to communicate key findings.

Deliverables:

• Improved resource organization and documentation.
• At least one data visualization or dashboard.
• A short knowledge product summarizing insights from project data.
• Recommendations for knowledge management strategy related to learning assessment data

Required qualifications for the role

• Must be an actively enrolled Associate, Bachelor, Master or other post high school education program, or have graduated within 6 months of program start date.
• Experience with inferential and descriptive statistics
• Proficient in Stata or R
• Interest in education programming and/or measuring child level learning outcomes
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate with individuals and teams
• Professional proficiency in MS Office suite
• Professional proficiency in spoken and written English

Preferred qualifications for the role

• Academic focus on international development in either development or humanitarian settings, in a thematic or geographic area in which Save the Children works.
• Experience working with learning assessment data

What’s In It for You

Professional Development

• Hands-on experience working on high-impact global initiatives
• Structured skill development and engagement program (SME trainings, social mixers and LinkedIn Learning courses)
• Access to mentorship from experienced leaders in humanitarian and nonprofit sectors
• Opportunities to present your work and insights to leadership

Deep Connections & Collaboration

• Build authentic relationships with a diverse, mission-driven cohort of colleagues and fellow interns
• Join a community that values inclusion, belonging and collective success

Agile Work Environment

• Hybrid and flexible working models that support autonomy and innovation
• Agile team structures that allow you to contribute ideas and implemented them
• Trust-based culture focused on outcomes, not just hours

Purpose-Driven Work

• Make a meaningful difference in children’s lives—your work directly contributes to global change
• Opportunity to align your personal values with your professional journey and share with mutually invested colleagues.

Classification: Intern

Compensation: $17.00-$17.95 / hour (depending on location)

Hours: maximum 24 hours per week

Dates: September 28, 2026 - December 11, 2026

About Us

Save the Children is committed to conducting its programs and operations in a manner that is safe for the children it serves and helping protect the children with whom we are in contact. All Save the Children representatives are explicitly prohibited from engaging in any activity that may result in any kind of child abuse.

Save the Children is committed to minimizing safety and security risks for our valued employees, ensuring all are given training, support and information to reduce their risk exposure while maximizing the impact of our programs for children and families. Our shared duty, both agency and individual, is to seek and maintain safe working conditions for all.

If you require disability assistance with the application or recruitment process, please submit a request to applicantsupport@savechildren.org