Position Title: Database Analyst Intern
Company Description: Innovate Carolina, the brand umbrella for the work of the Office of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (IEED), leads the University in its goal to uncover and unleash the vast innovation potential of faculty, students, staff, alumni and stakeholders. IEED works with leadership across campus to set strategy, provide central services, establish and foster partnerships, and garner resources to support the University’s innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development agenda. UNC-Chapel Hill is generating ground-breaking ideas through research to become a leading fundamental and translational research university. IEED uses a federated model to strengthen the innovation ecosystem that consists of an extensive network of University-facilitated programs. This network of students, faculty and staff are working together to tackle the most challenging problems in North Carolina and the world.
Company Website: innovate.unc.edu
Internship Job Description:
The Innovate Carolina team is hiring a student database analyst, who will report to Kim Paramo, Data Analyst, Innovate Carolina – Hubs and Engagement. The database analyst will contribute to Innovate Carolina by:
• Partner with database administrators and program management staff to learn the Data Hub’s database structures and data dictionaries.
• Clean, format, and validate data sets to ensure accuracy and consistency.
• Analyze existing data in the Data Hub platform using Salesforce, Excel, Tableau, and other tools.
• Identify and fill gaps in the data through research and data mining, using subscription databases (UNC Libraries and other Innovate Carolina resources), company websites, LinkedIn, government sources, and other external sources.
• Help develop effective visualizations to demonstrate complex data analytics for stakeholders. Resources will include subscription databases (UNC Libraries, additional Innovate Carolina resources), company websites, LinkedIn, government sources, and other external data sources. Staff mentors will help interns raise skill level to advanced/expert level with these resources.
• Collaborate with the data and communications teams to analyze demographic data from Carolina Demography as part of an Innovate Carolina benchmarking project.
• Respond to ad hoc staff requests involving Salesforce data.
• Build forms in FormAssembly and connect them to Salesforce and other systems.
• Create and maintain how-to guides and documentation for assigned projects.
Highly Qualified Candidates will:
• Candidates must have experience in data analysis, Excel, and Python or R.
• Experience with business data analysis, Salesforce.com, and company research are strongly preferred.
• Have strong communication skills to collaborate across teams
Type and Timing of Internship:
Part Time, during
Spring Semester;Fall Semester
Approximate Start and End Dates:
2026-11-16T00:00:00Z to 2027-05-10T00:00:00Z
Internship Location: Inovate Carolina Junction, 136 E Rosemary St., Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Paid or Unpaid: Yes –
Application Instructions:
2026-10-31T00:00:00Z
Submit your application at https://www.tfaforms.com/5231391.
Primary Contact Email: aubrey_wellfare@unc.edu