Project Summary:

The Minnesota Historical Society is committed to program evaluation as a valuable tool for strengthening the quality of our programs and to measure and improve outcomes for those we serve. This Intern will support various projects to develop staff resources for program evaluation. Several visitor studies will be conducted throughout the year.  The major focus is to support the development of an institutional dashboard for reporting and sharing performance results. This includes data collection, data entry and cleaning, graph creation for internal and external dashboards, as well as written dashboard reports.

Intern Tasks May Include:

  • Collect dashboard data from multiple data “owners”
  • Verify and/or correct discrepancies in data
  • Enter data into online dashboard database
  • Create charts and graphs for visual display of data
  • Create written dashboard reports from templates
  • Conduct visitor intercept surveys
  • Conduct qualitative data analysis
  • Other evaluation projects as assigned

 

Knowledge and skills intern is expected to gain:

  • Knowledge of program evaluation in a museum environment
  • Experience working with museum professionals and program evaluators
  • Experience designing and implementing dashboards for reporting performance results
  • Experience with evaluation capacity building

 
Ideal Degrees:   Program evaluation, museum studies, history, education, or related field.

 

Student Qualifications:  Must be a junior or senior undergraduate or graduate level student, with a passion for history, informal learning and evaluation. Must possess the following:

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Detail-oriented
  • Ability to work well independently and in a team setting
  • Experience planning, developing and implementing projects
  • Motivated, with strong work ethic
  • Comfort level with taking on multiple tasks and working with more than one supervisor.

Required Submissions

Writing sample that demonstrates writing ability. In addition, if available, samples of writing with graphs and charts are also welcome.
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Additional Salary Information: Paid internship