Summer Intern, Strategic Analysis & Forecasting

Port Authority of NY & NJ•New York, NY

12d•$18 - $30•Hybrid

About The Position

About the Internship The Aviation Department manages five airports at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, one of the busiest airport systems in the country. Within the Aviation Department, the Strategic Analysis & Forecasting team sits within the Aviation Strategy unit and oversees Airline Activity Data Collection & Reporting, Airline Activity Forecasting, and Industry Analysis. In this internship, the candidate will be able to apply their data analysis and visualization skills to the aviation industry and support the team’s mission of providing agency and department staff with the analytical tools they need for facility planning, revenue projection, and strategic decision making. This is a great opportunity for the candidate to develop their analytical skills while simultaneously learning about the Aviation business.

Requirements

Enrollment at a college or university at the time of the internship
Major in Transportation Planning, Urban Planning, Engineering, Statistics, Information Systems, Data Analytics or related discipline

Nice To Haves

Experience with Microsoft Power BI or another related data visualization or dashboard tool
Experience working with both qualitative and quantitative data
An interest in data collection, management, and visualization
Interest in public service, transportation, and/or aviation

Responsibilities

Develop data models in Power BI to support various data analysis and visualization tasks
Create dashboards in Power BI to replace PDF reporting for the Unit's Annual Traffic Report and for other internal analytical use cases
Design surveys for internal and external users to understand usage of current dashboards, reports, and analyses
Use data analysis and visualization tools to analyze and derive insights from aviation datasets
Help conduct aviation industry research, data analyses, and prepare activity forecasts