Quantitative Research Internship (Focus on Public Opinion) in the Learning, Innovation and Knowledge

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week on-site in The Hague, Netherlands; remote work is available on other days.

Salary: €450 per month based on a 36-hour work week, pro rata for fewer hours.

Company

hirify.global is a development and humanitarian organisation whose LINK Unit supports research, monitoring, learning, innovation, and knowledge for multi-country programmes and campaigns.

What you will do

• Conduct literature and desk reviews to support quantitative research and identify relevant theories, instruments, and validated measures.
• Support research frameworks, survey questionnaires, measurement indicators, survey programming, testing, and piloting.
• Support survey data collection, monitoring, and data quality checks.
• Prepare, clean, organise, and document quantitative datasets; conduct descriptive and, depending on experience, advanced statistical analyses.
• Interpret and present findings through tables, visualisations, presentations, and research reports.
• Contribute to research projects, team meetings, brainstorming, event organisation, logistics, administration, translation, and editing.

Requirements

• Currently studying for a relevant Master’s degree, such as political science, sociology, economics, social statistics, social science, or data science.
• Experience working with quantitative data, including cleaning, management, and analysis, preferably using R, Stata, or Python.
• Good understanding of quantitative research methodologies, especially survey research, questionnaire design, and statistical analysis.
• Familiarity with academic literature reviews, critical assessment of research evidence, and synthesis of findings.
• Strong analytical and writing skills, with the ability to communicate research findings clearly and accurately.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Strong cultural sensitivity and gender awareness; organised, punctual, and attentive to detail.
• Must be at least 18, enrolled at a Dutch educational institution for the entire internship, and have the legal right to live and work in the Netherlands or be prepared to obtain the right to undertake an internship as part of the study programme.
• The internship is work experience, not a thesis internship; applicants must have less than three years of relevant full-time work experience and must not have previously been employed by hirify.global.

Nice to have

• Understanding of survey design principles, including question wording, measurement, sampling, and potential sources of bias.
• Knowledge of Dutch.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a diverse, feminist, collaborative, and culturally sensitive research environment guided by values including inclusiveness, equality, accountability, and solidarity.
• Internship contract for approximately five months between February and June 2027; the period cannot be modified.
• Hybrid work with supervision from the LINK Unit Manager and a designated colleague or buddy.
• Student OV card expected; commuting costs reimbursed when the card is not applicable.
• Three-partite internship agreement between hirify.global, the educational institution, and the student.

Hiring process

• Applications must be submitted through the application portal before 22 November 2026; late or otherwise submitted applications will not be considered.
• The selected candidate must provide a contact for a character reference.
• The application and selection process includes coverage of safeguarding, misconduct, abuse of power, integrity, and financial misconduct.