Individual Placement - Public Health Data Analyst at The Student Conservation Association

Position Summary 

The Data Analyst Intern will be assigned to the Prevention and Response Branch (PRB) to support the National Park Service (NPS) Office of Health and Safety (OHS) with safety priorities, including analyzing various data sets to identify disease and injury trends in national parks; causal and contributing factors to diseases and injuries, high risk populations, and location specific information to target and improve safety and health efforts across the NPS. The intern will be responsible for developing data rules, performing data clean-up and coding, conducting data analysis of various size data sets, and generating various outputs (reports, dashboards, etc.) to inform programs, parks, and staff on trends. The intern will be responsible for developing presentations and conducting briefings on analysis results to program managers in the OHS. The intern will also have the opportunity to support various public health initiatives within the Prevention and Response Branch to include developing and updating relevant and engaging safety and health content on NPS.gov, NPS social media, and InsideNPS. The intern will have the opportunity to collaborate with the OHS Division Chief and Branch Chiefs, safety professionals, public health professionals, communications staff and other subject matter experts across the NPS. In addition to building upon data analysis and reporting skills, the intern will have the opportunity to learn project management, communication planning, policy and guidance development, and creating public health related training for adult audiences.

Location 

Washington, DC

Schedule 

January 12, 2026 - January 8, 2027

Key Duties and Responsibilities 

• Project Management: Apply project management principles in defining and scoping work tasks, developing schedules, conducting stakeholder analysis to provide targeted project deliverables
• Data Collection: Gather data from internal systems, surveys, APIs, or other available data sources
• Data Cleaning & Preparation: Identify and correct errors, remove duplicates, and format data for analysis
• Data Analysis: Use statistical methods and tools (e.g., Excel, PowerBI, Power Query, or R) to uncover trends, patterns, and correlations
• Reporting & Visualization: Create charts, dashboards, and reports using tools like Power BI, Excel, or Word to present findings clearly
• Communication and Collaboration: Use effective oral and written methods to convey information in a professional setting to successfully collaborate with co-workers and colleagues to understand their data needs and provide insights
• Documentation: Record methodologies, data sources, and findings for transparency and reproducibility
• Data Management: Maintain and update data files to ensure data integrity and accessibility
• Quality Assurance: Conduct regular audits to ensure data accuracy and consistency
• Process Improvement: Recommend ways to improve data collection, storage, and analysis workflows
• Meeting Management: Prepares meeting invitations, agendas, lead coordination meetings for assignments/projects, and prepare summary meeting minutes
• Literature review: conduct literature reviews on infectious diseases and public health prevention and control measures.
• Scientific writing and communication: contribute to the development of case reports, surveillance summaries, situation reports, briefing documents, fact sheets, and scientific articles

Marginal Duties 

• Working alongside subject matter experts to conduct research on marketing, communications, design, and behavioral change concepts, develop summary reports and PowerPoint presentations, and prepare a wide variety of content Develop communication plans to identify audiences, information needs, and key messages
• Apply research finding to various public health or employee safety work products identified by program managers
• Develop tailored communication products for a range of audiences such as fact sheets, guidance documents, online content, social media posts, etc. for targeted audiences
• Performance accessibility compliance on prepared documents to be published online to meet Section 508 of the rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Required Qualifications 

• A 1-2 page resume
• Recent graduate with a minimum of a master’s degree in public health or data science specializing in data analytics or epidemiology
• Expert in using Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word
• Experience in conducting public health research, developing methodologies for collecting and analyzing quantitative or qualitative data
• Experience in conducting comprehensive literature reviews, preparing citations and translating findings into informational documents, technical papers
• Experience in managing and analyzing data sets for technical reports or research
• Ability to work independently with some oversights to effectively plan and manage tasks as assigned, and to complete tasks as expected by the deadline
• Ability to work in a team environment, collaborating on common tasks and resolving conflicts
• Ability to effectively work in a virtual remote environment, completing assignments on time
• Skill in written and verbal presentations of technical material to make complex studies understandable to persons not trained in epidemiology or statistics
• Ability to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships with individuals and groups from different backgrounds, technical expertise, and interests
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and analyze problems and to make effective decisions, develop alternatives and communicate to supervisor when needed

This SCA Position is authorized under the Public Land Corps Authority. All participants must be between the ages of 16 and 30, inclusive, or veterans age 35 or younger. Participants must also be a citizen or national of the United States or lawful permanent resident alien of the United States. Hours served can be applied toward the Public Land Corps (PLC) hiring authority.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Proficient in using R Statistical Software
• Proficient in using Power BI and Microsoft Teams.

Hours 

40 per week

Living Accommodations 

Remote work with an intern expected to provide their own housing.

Compensation  

• Living allowance - $700/week
• Housing allowance - $1,300/month

All allowances are subject to applicable federal, state, and local taxes. 

Personal Vehicle Information

Not needed

Additional Benefits 

AmeriCorps: Not Eligible

Equal Opportunity Statement 

The Student Conservation Association, Inc., is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The SCA strives to cultivate a work environment that encourages fairness, teamwork, and respect among all staff members and is committed to maintaining a work atmosphere where lifestyles may grow personally and professionally.