Research Intern

About the Role

FleishmanHillard is seeking an intern with an interest in research and strategy to join its TRUE Global Intelligence team. This hybrid role will support both primary research and communications measurement, providing exposure to qualitative and quantitative research, media and social intelligence, audience analysis, and performance measurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor digital news stories.
• Conduct secondary research via Google, research databases, media and social platforms, and emerging research tools; evaluating source credibility and synthesizing findings.
• Assist with qualitative and/or quantitative primary research projects, including survey data cleaning, taking notes during focus groups/in-depth interviews, analyzing and QCing data, and contributing to research reports.
• Support communications measurement and analytics projects by organizing, cleaning, validating, and analyzing media, social, audience, survey, and other datasets.
• Assist with media analysis projects by creating charts in Excel and developing insights.
• Identify meaningful trends, patterns, anomalies, and questions in data, and connect findings to communications or business objectives.
• Build clear charts, tables, and visualizations in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Use AI-enabled and other emerging research tools responsibly to improve research efficiency, explore hypotheses, and support analysis, while validating outputs and sources.
• Employ excellent time management to deliver multiple assignments on deadline while collaborating across teams.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Ability to work in a hybrid model, in-person in a U.S. office weekly.
• Ability to work 40 hours per week for a minimum of 6 months.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Experience with survey research, social listening, data visualization, statistical tools, coding, or AI tools is a plus, but not expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Academic coursework or professional experience in primary research (e.g., surveys, focus groups, in-depth interviews).
• Academic coursework or professional experience in secondary research (e.g., literature reviews, research papers, media summaries).
• Innate curiosity to learn and dig deeper.
• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to condense and summarize research data into meaningful findings.
• Ability to evaluate source credibility, recognize limitations or inconsistencies in information, and maintain accuracy and data integrity.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational skills.
• Collaborative team player able to integrate with a diverse team and respond constructively to feedback.

The anticipated hourly rate for this position is $20-23 per hour.