About the Role
This is a paid internship with IPPF's Commercial Sustainability team, focused on helping Member Associations achieve long-term financial self-sufficiency. The role offers practical experience in data analysis, evidence building, and operational support within a global organisation.
Responsibilities
- Support the testing and quality assurance of the team's Power BI dashboard.
- Clean, organize, and sense-check data submitted by Member Associations.
- Contribute to research on AI and automation tools for data processes.
- Assist with building and formatting data visualisations for internal reporting.
- Research how other global health organisations measure and report on commercial sustainability.
- Support the development of case study materials illustrating MA performance.
- Compile and organize evidence from the MA portfolio for donor reporting, internal communications, or learning publications.
- Deliver a short output on a specific research question.
- Maintain and update team trackers, SharePoint filing structures, and shared documentation.
- Support the coordination of MA submission cycles.
- Help prepare materials for internal meetings.
- Assist with ad hoc administrative tasks.
Requirements
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets.
- Willing to learn new tools.
- Able to communicate clearly in writing.
- Happy to contribute to both operational tasks and project-based work.
- Demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to safeguarding in a local and international context.
- Demonstrates ability and willingness to work in a diverse, multicultural, multilingual and intergenerational environment that is anti-racist and respectful of others.
- An intersectional (pro) feminist passionate about sexual reproductive health care rights + justice, including safe abortion.
- Supportive of people’s rights regardless of sexuality or gender identity/expression and supportive of workers’ rights and access to health care in sex work.
Skills
- Data and analytics infrastructure
- Evidence building
- Operational and administrative support
- Excel
- Data visualisation tools (Power BI)
- Clear and concise writing
- Information synthesis
- Organization
- Proactiveness
- Reliability
- Time management
- Interest in global health
- Interest in international development
- Interest in data and analytics
- Interest in sexual and reproductive health and rights
Location
- London headquarters (2 days per week)
- Partially from home
Work Type
- Paid internship
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Internship
Education Level
- Relevant academic experience or an interest in relevant fields, such as international development, public health, economics, data science, social policy, or a related discipline
Salary/Compensations
- Remunerated at least at the minimum wage
Benefits
- Hands-on experience working with real data in a live international development context
- Understanding of how both mission-driven and commercial organisations operate
- Exposure to how a global health organisation uses data infrastructure, dashboards, and evidence to drive strategic decisions
- Direct mentorship from the Financial Business Partner and access to the wider Commercial Sustainability team
- A concrete output you can point to (a case study, analysis or data contribution)
- Professional growth
- Chance to make a lasting impact
About the Company
- IPPF is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults.
- IPPF is a global movement delivering sexual and reproductive health services and rights.
- IPPF is a diverse, feminist, and values-driven workplace - multi-national, multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-lingual, and intergenerational.
- IPPF is a globally recognized leader.
- IPPF brings positive change to the lives of millions of people worldwide.
- IPPF works across all continents, providing a unique opportunity to work on a global scale to shape change and implement innovative approaches to combat racism.
- IPPF values: Uphold dignity, Champion equality, Demand justice, Celebrate pleasure, Build global and local community, Act with integrity, Foster resilience.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunities employer and appoint on merit through open competition.
- We actively encourage applications from people with lived experience and from the communities we serve, especially those from marginalised groups.
- IPPF is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of its work.
