ASD Internship

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children•Alexandria, VA

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Analytical Services Intern will be assigned to an ASD specified team and will fulfill one or more of the following duties with the potential to take on additional responsibilities. This is a HYBRID internship requiring a minimum of 20 hours per week, between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday. Interns will be excused to attend internship program functions and for academic holidays or vacations. Although internships are unpaid positions, each intern will have the opportunity to acquire knowledge and hands-on experience and will receive academic credit through an approved program at their college or as a volunteer.

Requirements

Completed two (2) years of college with a concentration in Criminal Justice, Sociology, Psychology or related field
Minimum grade point average of 3.0 on a 4-point scale
Ability to perform searches in open source and social media platforms
Excellent organizational skills, report writing, and time management skills
Display quality control and high standards when performing data entry
MUST be able to use discretion while handling and maintaining the confidentiality of highly sensitive information
Ability to work independently

Nice To Haves

3.5 GPA or higher preferred
Research experience preferred, to include research analysis skills

Responsibilities

Support the Attempted Abductions Team by searching for attempts incidents online, through online news articles, law enforcement social networking sites, press releases on law enforcement websites, etc. and documenting the information for the analysts to follow up
Support the collection of nationwide Child Sex Trafficking trends that are tracked and maintained in several spreadsheets and/or internal documents
Assist the Sex Offender Tracking Team with efforts to update data associated with noncompliant sex offenders
Research assigned topics and assist with NCMEC data projects, including data entry and cleaning, qualitative data coding and other research tasks