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Data Analytics Internship
Clean real organisational data, build dashboards and turn analysis into recommendations managers can use.
Work with a monitoring and evaluation unit, finance team or business to clean datasets, build reports and dashboards in Excel or Power BI, and present findings.
Entry requirements
- Completion of the Rescue Academy Business Data Analytics & Advanced Excel program (Beginner level or above), or a skills check
- Completion of the Workplace Readiness level
Prerequisite skills
- Clean data in Excel
- Use SUMIFS, lookups and PivotTables
- Build a basic chart
Learning objectives
- Assess and clean real datasets with a cleaning log
- Build reliable reports and dashboards
- Interpret data and recommend actions
- Protect personal data during analysis
Competencies you will develop
Data cleaningSpreadsheet modellingPivotTables and dashboardsPower BI basicsData interpretationData protectionPresenting findings
Internship modules
Weekly plan
| Week | Module | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Understanding the Data and Its Users | Users and questions |
| Week 2 | Understanding the Data and Its Users | Data assessment |
| Week 3 | Cleaning and Structuring Data | Cleaning |
| Week 4 | Cleaning and Structuring Data | Structure |
| Week 5 | Reports and Dashboards | Analysis |
| Week 6 | Reports and Dashboards | Dashboard |
| Week 7 | Insight and Presentation | Interpretation |
| Week 8 | Insight and Presentation | Presentation |
Final internship project
Data-to-Decision Package
Deliver a clean dataset, documented cleaning process, refreshable dashboard and insight brief for a real decision.
Deliverables
- Data-quality assessment
- Master dataset and cleaning log
- Refreshable dashboard
- Insight brief and presentation
How you are evaluated
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Data quality and cleaning | 25% |
| Accuracy of analysis | 25% |
| Dashboard design | 15% |
| Interpretation and communication | 15% |
| Internship report and reflection | 20% |
Internship report
8–12 pages plus appendices, submitted as PDF within one week of the placement ending.
- Summary
- The host organisation and your role
- Work completed, with evidence
- Data sources, methods and limitations
- Challenges and how you handled them
- Skills developed and reflection
- Recommendations to the host organisation
Portfolio evidence
- Anonymised dashboard screenshots
- Cleaning log
- Insight brief (with permission)
- Supervisor's evaluation
Expected professional outcomes
- Work as a data or M&E assistant
- Produce trustworthy reports and dashboards for managers
Outcomes describe skills practised during the internship. Rescue Academy does not guarantee employment.
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