Child Care Aware® of America, our nation’s leading voice for child care, works with more than 450 state and local Child Care Resource and Referral (CCR&R) agencies to ensure that families in every local community have access to quality, affordable child care.
Child Care Aware of America is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce. Our mission is to advance a child care system that effectively serves all children and families. Joining our efforts provides a powerful opportunity to make a difference in the lives of families and to advocate for the approximately 1.5 million child care providers in the United States. The child care workforce is 94% women; 40% people of color; and 22% foreign-born. And despite the invaluable service they provide, 36.7% of them live below 200% of the federal poverty line. Join CCAoA to help us realize our vision that every family in the United States has access to a high-quality, affordable child care system.
Summary of Position: The Research department at Child Care Aware® of America is seeking a motivated, full-time undergraduate (or graduate) intern to work remotely for 10-20 hours per week for the Spring 2022 semester. The intern will have the opportunity to learn and enhance research skills while working closely with Child Care Aware® of America research staff to analyze socio-spatial intersections of poverty, nutrition, food access, and child care.
Position Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as a key researcher on the Nemours Healthy Kids Grant.
- Help collect, analyze, and present child care and nutrition data and research.
- Co-author data analysis in narrative form in a story map.
- Learn and operate within the organization’s geospatial data management system.
- Engage with stakeholders for data collection and writing collaboration / feedback.
- Help to clean and organize data and research items and conduct follow-up as necessary.
- Manage project data in both local (Excel) and remote (ArcGIS Online) formats.
- Assist with other activities as assigned, i.e., background research and literature reviews.
Qualifications:
- Undergraduate (or graduate) student majoring in geography, sociology, early childhood education, women’s studies, statistics, or other social sciences subject area.
- Experience with geographic information systems (GIS) is required (1 year full-time or 2 completed college-level GIS/geospatial analysis courses).
- A background in social science research with emphasis on geospatial data collection, management, and analysis (including use of ESRI’s ArcGIS suite [especially ArcGIS Online & Story Maps] and Microsoft Excel) is highly desirable.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Proficient in using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Internet research tools.
- An interest in child care, education, social justice, social sustainability, equity, and/or nutrition is strongly preferred.
