About The Role
As a Research Intern, you will support the GoTo Impact Lab team in discovering and designing new ways to build an innovation-focused ecosystem. Working closely with our interdisciplinary team, you will contribute to cutting-edge research that maps the landscape of impact initiatives, identifies systemic barriers to innovate, and design scalable solutions to sustainably solve community problems. Your work will inform our strategies to drive environmental and societal changes in Indonesia.
What You Will Do
- Data collection: Perform systematic literature reviews, interviews, surveys, focus group discussions (FGDs), and other data collection methods as needed.
- Analysis and insight generation: Transform data into actionable insights. Synthesize findings into reports, dashboards, or presentations.
- Knowledge building: Maintain and develop the team’s knowledge repository on systems change, sustainability, and program impact.
- White space thinking: Explore research questions, emerging ideas, and new methods to design solutions, tools, projects, or scalable models for impact ecosystems.
- Operations: Support end-to-end research planning and execution, including logistics coordination, data management, and stakeholder engagement.
- Outreach and partnership: Support the growth of GIF’s research network and outreach by identifying and engaging potential collaborators.
What You Will Need
- Final year student or recent graduate of any major with strong qualitative or mixed-methods research background.
- Passion for addressing systemic challenges in Indonesia, such as environmental sustainability, social inequality, and community empowerment.
- Hands-on experience in conducting research projects, including formulating questions, designing instruments, data collection, and data analysis.
- Proven capacity to build structured arguments, identify assumptions, and validate conclusions. Contribution to reports, case studies, or working papers is a plus.
- Demonstrated ability to navigate ambiguity and synthesize information into clear, logically sound insights.
- Being a self-starter with the ability to work independently across functions in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Professional fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English.
About The Team
GoTo Impact Foundation (GIF), previously known as Yayasan Anak Bangsa Bisa (YABB), is an impact catalyst organization, combining the compassion of foundations with the innovation spirit of startups. Established by GoTo, our mission is to build innovation ecosystems to mobilize and deploy people, capital, knowledge, and expertise to tackle Indonesia’s intractable challenges such as waste management and digital inequality in Indonesia and beyond.
•
Last updated on Feb 7, 2025