Strategic Impact Intern (Academic Year / Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)

Position Title:  Strategic Impact Intern (Academic Year / Fall 2023 – Spring 2024)
Department:  Strategic Impact and Planning
Reports to:  Strategy Director for Data and Measurement
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Duration:  August 23, 2023 – May 3, 2024
Compensation: $16-$19 per hour for student enrolled in an undergraduate program
$18-$22 per hour for students enrolled in a graduate program or a recent graduate
Schedule:  15 hours weekly required, maximum of 20 hours weekly. Schedule can be negotiated with supervisor.

Responsibilities

The candidate will be required to provide support, coordination, and assistance on the delivery of specific projects across the Strategic Impact and Planning unit that help to advance racial equity through the attainment of quality credentials that lead to economic mobility. The unit focuses on building data systems and evidence aligned with today’s students and tomorrow’s credentials to make continuous improvement, document effective practices, inform Lumina and the field, and measure progress and success against key metrics.

The candidate will work on projects across the three departments in the unit:

• Research and Evaluation (primary area of focus for the internship) builds the evidence-base for how best to support adult students of color (Black, Hispanic, and Native American) on their pathway to earning a quality credential that leads to employability, informing our internal strategic efforts and the field.
• Data and Measurement includes both an internal-facing role focused on gathering and analyzing data that guide our strategy and an external-facing role focused on ensuring federal, national, and state data systems and measures speak to today’s students and all high-quality credentials.
• Strategic Alignment and Planning creates tools, resources, spaces for conversations, and the overall environment that supports cross-department knowledge sharing and alignment of work.

Data and/or research knowledge of one or more of these areas and their context is ideal (particularly with regards to adults, some college no degree and students of color).

• Participation: Postsecondary enrollment and re-enrollment
• Student Success: Persistence and completion of a high-quality postsecondary credential
• Employment Aligned Credentials: Improving and expanding the postsecondary capacity to deliver high quality credentials that lead to well-paying jobs and further pathways.

Responsibilities will include:

• Co-constructing, leading, and managing short projects that leverage data, research, and knowledge from the field to inform internal strategies and implementation of grants.
• Identifying opportunities to elevate strong ideas from the field through writing, presenting, and assisting with convenings.
• Engaging with colleagues across the foundation through internal meetings and contribute to strategizing conversations.
• Working alongside strategy officers and directors to manage project coordinating tasks.
• Other projects or tasks that the candidate and supervisor agree are related to the portfolio.

Education

Enrolled graduate student, or a recent graduate; we will also consider an equivalent combination of work and learning experience.

Qualifications

• Interest in philanthropy and its role in encouraging postsecondary attainment and closing equity gaps
• Stable access to high-speed internet
• Knowledge of community colleges, higher education systems, and their multilayered contexts
• Ability to analyze, synthesize, contextualize, and communicate research and trends as it relates to the goals of Lumina Foundation
• Strong communication and analytical skills
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively
• Ability to juggle multiple projects at a time
• Ability to work in the Indianapolis area

Applicants should send the following to the e-mail address below:

1. a letter of interest,
2. a resume outlining experience relevant to the position.

Applications will be considered on a rolling basis; posting will close on July 15, 2023.

Amber Shelton
Human Resources Manager
luminaintern@luminafoundation.org

Equal Opportunity Employer