Research Intern

About the Role

FleishmanHillard is seeking an intern with an interest in research and strategy to join its TRUE Global Intelligence team in one of the following U.S. office locations: Dallas, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, St. Louis, or Washington D.C. 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. The team provides analytics, measurement, and insights discovery capabilities to help companies accomplish their business objectives.

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 Microsoft Excel and developing insights to explain key findings.
• Identify meaningful trends, patterns, anomalies, and questions in data, and help connect findings to the communications or business question being addressed.
• Build clear charts, tables, and visualizations in Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint that communicate analytical findings effectively.
• 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 of working in-person in one of our U.S. offices weekly.
• The ability to work 40 hours per week for a minimum of 6 months.
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• Academic coursework or professional experience in primary research, such as surveys, focus groups, or in-depth interviews.
• Academic coursework or professional experience in secondary research, such as literature reviews, research papers, and media summaries.
• Innate curiosity to learn more 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.
• Experience with survey research, social listening, data visualization, statistical tools, coding, or AI tools is a plus, but not expected.