Innovation Intern

The Innovation Intern will support key innovation priorities across a range of workstreams at Save the Children. This role involves assisting in the design and launch of innovation challenges, researching donor landscapes, cataloging promising innovations, and developing AI-enabled workflows to enhance team productivity and situational awareness.\n\n### Key Responsibilities\n\n#### Open Innovation Challenge\n- Support the design and launch of an open innovation challenge to identify and source high-potential solutions aligned with organizational priorities.\n\n#### Donor Landscape Mapping for Innovation Funding\n- Research and map key innovation funders, including decision-makers, funding priorities, recent investments, and potential entry points for engagement.\n\n#### Innovation Pipeline Research\n- Conduct structured desk research to identify and catalog 50+ promising innovations relevant to Save the Children's work.\n- Produce a shortlist of high-potential innovations, with concise assessment summaries to inform decision-making.\n\n#### Innovation Astronaut Program\n- Support the design and roll-out of the Innovation Astronaut Program.\n\n#### Innovation Team AI-Enabled Workflows\n- Develop and produce a weekly internal newsletter summarizing emerging trends, tools, sector developments, and opportunities to support the innovation team's situational awareness.\n- Design and implement an automated system to generate monthly emails highlighting relevant funding opportunities.\n- Enhance an existing AI-based tool to improve accuracy, broaden data sources, and introduce additional features such as deadline tracking and relevance scoring.\n\n#### General Support\n- The intern may support additional innovation tasks as defined by the Innovation team.\n\n### Requirements and Skills\n\n#### Research and Analysis\n- Strong desk-research skills, including the ability to identify, review, and synthesize information from multiple sources.\n- Ability to assess innovations, funding opportunities, and tools and summarize findings clearly.\n\n#### Written and Verbal Communication\n- Clear, concise writing skills, particularly for briefs, summaries, and internal communications.\n- Ability to present ideas and findings in a structured and accessible way.\n\n#### Digital and AI Literacy\n- Comfortable using digital tools to support research, collaboration, and workflow management.\n- Familiarity with AI-enabled tools for research, summarization, or automation, or a strong willingness to learn.\n\n#### Project and Task Management\n- Ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines.\n- Basic planning and coordination skills to support innovation challenges and research activities.\n\n### Education and Qualifications\n- Recently completed an undergraduate degree in a relevant field, such as Design, Innovation, Business, Data, Information Systems, International Development, Public Policy, or Social Sciences.\n- Equivalent practical experience, coursework, or demonstrated capability will be considered in place of formal qualifications.\n\n### How to Apply\nInterested and qualified candidates should apply online through the recruitment portal at .