The Intern Foundry Program is looking for high achieving students to pair with purpose-driven organizations in Lincoln and the surrounding area to intern in spring of 2025. There are 30 internship opportunities that all pay $15/hour for 8 hours a week. There will be three options for a pre-session training beginning in January:
January 8-10
January 13-15
January 15-17
In-person attendance to one of these sessions is required for admittance into the program.
Below are a few internships being offered that align with your area of study.
Firespring: Business Intelligence and Data Analysis Intern
Define and implement a project plan to leverage the ongoing development of a Business Intelligence (BI) platform designed to aggregate and visualize disparate business data for strategic decision-making across all departments. The plan may include interviewing key stakeholders, identifying valuable data within multiple systems, developing BI dashboards, and analyzing data to transform information into insights for company Stakeholders.
NIFA: Nebraska Strategic Housing Council (SHC) Data Dashboard
This internship opportunity will work with the Nebraska Strategic Housing Council and NIFA to capture progress on the strategic housing objective of producing 35,000 housing units in the state. NIFA currently hosts a data dashboard that is measuring this objective and recognizes that there is more impactful data to collect, including capturing housing units at different income levels. The council and its efforts encompass comprehensive
partnerships with a wide variety of housing and economic development experts. The intern will participate in scaling up the dashboard and increasing effective data collection and reporting in the following areas.
Legislative advocacy Housing for persons with special needs who have extremely low incomes
Community based technical assistance with an emphasis on construction trades and workforce
Innovations in housing construction and manufactured housing
Nebraska Department of Labor: Research and Data Analysis Intern
The Office of Labor Market Information (LMI) has a wealth of data, publications, and other materials on its website, but accessing and interpreting the information is not always intuitive. The main objective of this project is to create a marketing plan for informative and promotional content that engages data users and provides answers to frequently asked questions. A focus will be informational videos; other formats could include, but are not limited to infographics, social media, and printed materials. Use of professional software is not required. This individual will have access to Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office and will be responsible for researching and utilizing free and low cost options. The use of AI or other tools to increase efficiency is encouraged. Best practices and suggestions for customizing content to specific audiences including K12 students, teachers, business representatives, media, government officials, and others should be researched and documented. The ultimate goal is to increase awareness of the highlighted content such as navigating the agency website, accessing specific content, using available data, etc.
These three examples are just the surface of the amazing work you could do here in Nebraska this spring. If none of these opportunities jumped out at you, there are 27 more internships offered! Please consider applying to start making an impact in Lincoln and Nebraska. If you have any questions or concerns please send them to Audrey2@thefoundry.co and Peyton@thefoundry.co
The priority deadline for these internships is October 6th
Apply here.
Cheers,
The Foundry Team
More details at: https://honors.unl.edu/intern-foundry-program/?check_logged_in=1