Inspire Vancouver Research Intern Job Singapore,Non-Profit & Social Impact

Salary Range
17.13 - 30.98
Job Summary

Inspire Vancouver is the City of Vancouver’s cultural access program. The program is a long-term investment in the organizations, people, and cultural life that make Vancouver a vibrant place to live.

Funded by a .1% cultural access tax, the program supports arts, culture, heritage, and science organizations across the city.

The program is guided by four goals: expanding access and engagement, strengthening the cultural community, boosting jobs and neighborhood pride, and encouraging creativity and learning.

The program is guided by the Culture, Arts and Heritage Commission, a body of nine community, and our grant review committee that is made up for Vancouver residents.

Inspire Vancouver places special emphasis on expanding access for people and communities who have historically faced barriers to participation. As a brand-new team, we’re building our programs and our evidence base at the same time, which is where you come in.

Job Details

We are looking for an intern currently enrolled in college to help launch our community measurement and learning practice over two academic terms. You will help design and conduct culturally responsive, engaging community surveys with three key audiences: the broader Vancouver community, our grantees, and the local artists, historians, scientists, and cultural leaders shaping Vancouver’s creative life. You’ll then turn that data into clear, compelling reports we can share with the community, the Culture, Arts and Heritage Commission, and the Vancouver City Council to demonstrate the impact of our grants and funding.

This is a rare opportunity to help shape the data story of a new public program. Your work will directly inform how the City understands its investment in arts, culture, heritage, and science.

Location: Vancouver, WA (Hybrid — Mix of in-person and remote work)
Duration and

Hours:

10 hours per week across two consecutive semesters
Reports to: Inspire Vancouver Program Supervisor

Qualifications

Required:

Education

This internship is targeted towards college students enrolled in data science, social sciences, statistics, public policy, or other related programs who are looking to gain field experience working closely with groups of people collecting quantitative and qualitative data. This is a data-heavy internship.

Experience

Conducting surveys and/or gathering community input
Creating reports from survey or research data (academic, professional, or volunteer experience all count)
Strong written communication skills
Interest in arts, culture, heritage, and/or science nonprofit organizations
Comfort with common survey, spreadsheet, and presentation tools

Preferred

Experience engaging diverse or historically underserved communities
Bilingual skills (Spanish, Russian, Chuukese, Vietnamese, and other languages spoken in Vancouver are a plus)
Familiarity with data visualization tools or qualitive and quantitative research methods
Experience with community-based, participatory, or arts-based research

Qualifications

Scope of Work

Survey Design & Strategy

Develop a survey and data collection strategy that reaches across Vancouver’s diverse communities, including residents, grantee organizations, and individual artists, historians, scientists, and cultural leaders.
Design survey instruments that are culturally responsive: accessible, welcoming, and inclusive of different languages, traditions, and lived experiences.
Use creative approaches to gathering input. Think beyond standard online forms such as in-person engagement at cultural events, partnership-based outreach, participatory or arts-based methods, plain-language and multilingual options.

Data Collection & Community Engagement

Pilot and refine survey tools with support and guidance from…