GIS Analyst Spring 2024 Internship (Paid / Remote)

As an intern, you will go through a similar onboarding experience to full-time Ballotpedia employees. You will learn how to code the Ballotpedia website, be oriented to Ballotpedia’s style guide, learn about what we do to prevent and detect bias in our resources, and much more. Following orientation, you will work closely with the Tech Team. You will meet one-on-one weekly with a member of the team to coordinate your tasks. Additionally, there will be some other specific training calls as necessary depending on which projects you work on.

In addition to your onboarding experience, and the experience you will develop working in your assigned area, you will also have the opportunity to attend topical meetings or webinars.

As a Ballotpedia Tech Team GIS Analyst intern, your primary job is to research and format shapefiles for political boundaries. Ballotpedia's sample ballot lookup app allows voters to see upcoming elections for their address. This and other functionality will be powered by your work.

This will involve :

• research to understand the legal requirements for who can vote in which types of elections
• sourcing maps through online research, outreach to government offices, or georeferencing to create new shapefiles
• testing and formatting the files to conform to Ballotpedia's database requirements
• working with the Ballotpedia database to add the boundaries and perform tests

Other GIS or database-oriented activities will be assigned based on skill, interest, and need.

Desirable experience for GIS Analyst intern :

Ballotpedia’s Spring 2024 internship runs from Monday, January 8, 2024 to Friday, May 3, 2024. Ballotpedia’s spring internship is a part-time internship program; interns will work approximately 10-20 hours per week depending on their availability.

Ballotpedia is happy to facilitate credit for your internship experience if that is available to you. If you will be seeking credit for your internship, and if there is anything that Ballotpedia will need to do to assist you, please include that information in the same file as your cover letter.

Environment

Ballotpedia interns will work remotely, as all Ballotpedia staff work remotely. To join Ballotpedia, you must have a well-functioning computer with Internet access. Ballotpedia uses Google Applications (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive and more) to accomplish our goals. Some familiarity with Google Applications is helpful.

Compensation

Interns will be compensated at $15.00 per hour.

Please note : If the minimum wage in your area is more than $15.00 per hour, you will be compensated in accordance with your area’s minimum wage.