Position Title: Data & Systems Intern
Company Description: The UNC Office of the Chief Innovation Officer is standing up the operational infrastructure for a new university partnership program. Behind every great partnership effort is clean data, well-designed systems, and a team that keeps the plumbing working. That’s where you come in.
Company Website: https://innovate.unc.edu/
Internship Job Description:

Data & Systems Interns will work directly with the program’s operations leads to design, build, and maintain the database architecture and workflow tooling that powers the partnership program. This includes structuring incoming research from the intelligence team, building out CRM workflows, and ensuring data integrity across the program’s contact and engagement records.
This role is ideal for students who love building things that work—people who get satisfaction from a clean schema, a well-documented process, or a dashboard that actually tells you something useful. You’ll work closely with internal stakeholders and have direct visibility into how a major institutional initiative gets operationalized from the ground up.
AI is a hands-on part of this role. Interns will use AI tools to accelerate data cleaning, generate documentation, explore automation opportunities, and prototype lightweight analytical tools—and are expected to build practical intuition for when AI output needs human review.

Responsibilities
•Design and maintain the partnership program’s contact and engagement database, including data structure, field definitions, and tagging logic
•Ingest and clean research outputs from the intelligence team; standardize formats and validate records for accuracy
•Build and document CRM workflows supporting outreach tracking, pipeline staging, and reporting
•Create dashboards and summary reports that give leadership real-time visibility into program activity and pipeline health
•Identify and resolve data quality issues; establish and enforce data governance standards for the team
•Support integration between research inputs, outreach tools, and reporting outputs as the program scales
Type and Timing of Internship:
Flexible, during
Summer
Approximate Start and End Dates:
2026-05-18T00:00:00Z to 2026-08-14T00:00:00Z
Internship Location: The Junction 136 East Rosemary Street
Paid or Unpaid: Yes –
Application Instructions:
2026-05-01T00:00:00Z
Please submit your resume as well as a sample project that demonstrates your capabilities to innovate@unc.edu
Primary Contact Email: innovate@unc.edu