Tech Data Intern

Organization Description

Vital Voices Global Partnership is a leading international nonprofit organization. We invest in women leaders who are tackling the worlds greatest challenges from genderbased violence to the climate crisis economic inequities and more. We are venture catalysts identifying leaders with a daring vision for change and partnering with them to make that vision a reality. What sets Vital Voices apart is that we make longterm holistic investments in leaders with bold ideas for change providing them connections capacity a network of their peers financial support and visibility for their work. We have provided early support for leaders who went on to become Nobel Peace Laureates US Youth Poet Laureates Prime Ministers award winning innovators and breakthrough social entrepreneurs. Over the past 24 years we have directly invested in more than 47000 changemakers across 188 countries who in turn have improved the lives of millions of people in their communities and countries.

Today Vital Voices has a staff ofnearly 100headquartered in Washington DC. In the coming years we have a bold vision to dramatically scale our impact. In early 2022 we opened the first ever Global Headquarters for Womens Leadership a 30000 sq. ft. historic building just blocks from the White House on 16th Street. It is a hub of activity events and collaborations bringing together women leaders and their allies to tackle the worlds greatest challenges.

Mission

Vital Voices invests in women leaders taking on the worlds greatest challenges and accelerates collective action towards an equitable and sustainable world.

Organizational Goals 2030

1. Scale our proven investment model from 47000 to 50000 women leaders who together will positively impact the lives of one billion people.
2. Make a measurable impact on 12 of the greatest challenges as defined by the Vital Voices Global Network proving the power of collective action.
3. Cultivate a critical mass of people around the world who believe that womens leadership has a positive impact.

Summary

The PartTime Technology & Data intern will work directly under the supervision and guidance of Cristy Brust Data Engineer and Tara King Hughes VP Tech & Data. This internship offers experience writing custom code for existing websites and applications assisting in troubleshooting issues on webbased systems leveraging AI tools to improve metadata for our digital asset library collaborating with the data engineer on schema design updates and documentation and creating prototypes and experiments with new technologies and features as assigned. They will work across a portfolio of projects alongside crossfunctional teams with leaders and peers with varying backgrounds education and experiences.

Additional responsibilities include:

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Digital Product Support & Development

• Digital Media Management: Leverage AI tools to update metadata for digital media assets

• Data Warehouse: Assist in developing and maintaining ETL scripts to integrate siloed data sources into our centralized data warehouse.

• Data Management: Support data pipeline monitoring and troubleshooting to ensure data accuracy and reliability.

• Development: Design build and maintain digital products (frontend and backend) along with creating responsive solutions to mobilize core metrics for senior leaders.

• Technical Research: Provide indepth research and onepage memos on new technology trends administrative work to improve current systems and creating training for technology best practices online community engagement web security etc.

• Digital Product User Guides: Assist with the development of digital product user guides to help staff onboard onto new products and platforms.

• Dashboard & Reporting: Contribute to report design and visualization projects turning raw data into actionable insights.

• Strategy: Innovative thinker who enjoys finding creative solutions and has a keen eye for design and user experience.
• Support: Support logistical and operational communications across VVs software and network.
• Other duties as assigned.

Professional Qualifications:

• Interest in and knowledge of global womens issues civic technology international development and/or tech and social impact womens leadership.

• Interest in the intersection between app development data and human rights and a passion for emerging technologies.

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program.

• Experience with MS Office applications (esp. Excel Word and PowerPoint) social networking tools project management tools and database software (i.e. Salesforce) preferred.

• Experience in app development is strongly preferred.

• Knowledge of web applications programming languages and web services.

• Strong work ethic and attention to detail.

• Capacity to work both independently and as a member of a team.

• Majoring in Management of Information Systems Computer Science Computer Engineering or other relevant fields is preferred.

The stipend for this 10week parttime position is $1500 based on a 1520 hour work week and will be paid in 2 increments throughout the program. This role will begin on May 27th 2025 and run through August 2nd 2025. 10 weeks)

The internship program is a hybrid position and requires at minimum 2 days in our DC office per week 1 day for parttime interns). Remote interns may be considered on a case by case basis.

Vital Voices provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin age disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements Vital Voices complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

Vital Voices expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race color religion gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression national origin age genetic information disability or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Vital Voices employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Staff may experience secondary trauma due to exposure to descriptive and/or graphic genderbased violence content in their work on the urgent assistance program. Vital Voices does not provide work visa sponsorship or relocation assistance for this position.