Intern - Economic Strategy Practice

**About us**:
Access Partnership is the world’s leading tech policy consultancy. We enable consumer access to technology and lead countries to Fair Tech. To do this, we create the environment that allows governments to adopt technologies effectively and responsibly by analysing global trends for the risks and opportunities they create for technology businesses and users of technology, identifying strategies to mitigate those risks and driving opportunities to our clients’ advantage. Our firm uniquely mixes public policy and engineering competencies to achieve our goals. We have offices in London, Brussels, Singapore, Washington, Abu Dhabi, and Johannesburg—and are growing.

**Practice**

The Access Partnership Economics Strategy practice is a team of economists, econometricians, and public policy advisors. We advise our clients from the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors on the forces shaping their markets, helping them to make better informed decisions, and assisting them with developing strategies to create prosperity and well-being for themselves and the communities they are part of. We have a focus on digital economy and trade, economic development, and the future of work. We are committed to helping solve the world’s most complex problems.

**What you can expect to be doing**:
As an Intern with the Economics Strategy practice, you will play an important role in supporting the delivery of client projects. As part of this role, you will have the following responsibilities.

**Client**: You research client needs, policies, and trends to create targeted materials, proposals, and presentations. Your insights help the team offer relevant solutions, build client trust and win work

**Project Delivery**: You deliver high-quality work backed by strong research, analysis, and writing.

**Collaboration**: You proactively offer to support work across the business and learn from feedback and experience

You will have expertise or interest in economics or public policy, and a passion for working with clients to solve their real-world problems. You will also be intellectually curious and be keen to work on challenges at the intersection of economics, public policy, and technology.

**Research and Analysis**
- Keep abreast of policy topics, political trends, regulations, and industry developments.
- Quantitative and qualitative data gathering and analysis
- Timely inputs and insights, as directed, for client projects (briefs, reports, etc)

**Communications**
- Draft presentations, reports, and other client deliverables
- Contribute to the development of proposals and frameworks with guidance

**Teamwork**
- Curious mindset and unafraid to ask questions and collaborate with peers
- Strong team player, always proactively asking where support can be provided
- Adaptable to change and able to learn new tasks quickly

**Operational Excellence**
- Support continuous improvements activities with clear documentation
- Adhere to existing workflows and processes and suggest areas of opportunity for greater efficiencies
- Ensure required quality standards are consistently achieved
- Well organized, highly motivated, and proactive in finding ways to get things done and meet professional goals

**What you will bring**:

- Strong structured research and analysis skills, and understanding of various quantitative and qualitative analysis tools and techniques.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-organisation and time-management skills.

Proficiency with productivity tools such as Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, and with statistical packages such as R, Python, and Stata preferred.**What We Offer**:
Our diverse international client base of technology giants and start-ups will provide the opportunity to work on multiple international projects on behalf of some of the industry’s leading companies. Our firm boasts a collaborative working environment, social events and a robust support system. We are committed to providing training and professional development for all colleagues.