Overview

Are you a current graduate student interested in gaining experience in the urban planning field? Karp Strategies is seeking a Graduate Analyst for Fall 2024 to immediately join our team. Your work will be focused on research, analysis, writing, and creating compelling client-facing materials. We’re looking for candidates who bring experience with data analysis and quantitative research efforts, including market analysis, socioeconomic and labor analysis, and mapping, to access neighborhood changes, inform strategic planning, and drive organizational change and impact.

Graduate Analysts play a critical role at our firm, working directly on projects with our cross-sector clients and supporting internal projects.

Karp Strategies is  actively interviewing for a Part-time Graduate Analyst (Graduate Student Intern) to immediately join our team.  The ideal candidate for this position is excited about working at the intersection of economic development, urban planning, community engagement, and consulting. Your work will be focused on research, analysis, writing, and creating compelling client-facing materials (presentations, decks, infographics, reports, etc). Graduate Analysts play a critical role in client and internal projects and are fully involved with many aspects of the consulting process.

We are looking for candidates enrolled in graduate school who can work 20-25+ hours/week. We will prioritize candidates who will stay with the firm for fall and spring semesters, with the possibility to extend through the summer. Karp Strategies offers Graduate Analysts an opportunity to become a full-time Analyst dependent on the needs of the firm upon graduation.
You will bring:
  • 1-3 years of demonstrated expertise in research, writing, data analysis, and design.
  • Excellent writing, research, and analytical skills.
  • You should be comfortable working with Adobe, PPT, Google Slides, and know great design when you see it.
  • Experience in community economic development, workforce development, placemaking, and stakeholder engagement.
You will love this work if you are excited about and looking to contribute in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, are comfortable working in the unknown where you may need to learn as you go, want to be hands on in shaping and delivering client work as a part of the Karp Strategies team, and share our commitment to growing stronger communities and thriving economies, as well as our values toward diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Skills, Knowledge, and Expertise


Necessary Skills for Success
  • Support data analysis of all kinds: in particular a focus on market analysis, socioeconomic and labor analysis, and mapping/visualizations. Determine what kind of changes are going on in neighborhoods and what those changes mean. At the organizational level, assess policies and data to inform operations, goals and visions; make recommendations toward strategic planning and organizational change.
  • Support qualitative analysis and research to triangulate data or as a stand alone project, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, participatory action research, and other techniques.
  • Support stakeholder outreach and engagement, including focus groups, interviews, briefings, meetings, and creative engagement methodologies. Design training guides for facilitators. Manage related logistics and support, including preparation of engagement and analysis materials. Analysts may work on a wide variety of KS projects across the firm’s portfolio, and we expect outreach/engagement and policy to be two of those areas.
  • Multilingual written and oral skills are highly regarded as part of our work with diverse communities across the country.
  • Detail Oriented and excited about supporting successful delivery of this project by maintaining excellent systems, processes, and infrastructure in support of your Project Manager.
  • Strong writing and communication skills, able to communicate to a wide variety of audiences.
  • Graphic design experience with a focus on designing presentation, infographics, graphic representations of policy, process, engineering, and analytical findings. You will design things ranging from items as simple as agendas to as big as decks going to a client’s investors, translating technical information into layperson formats. You should be familiar with Adobe Suite, PowerPoint, Google Suite. is a must given the range of projects and client types.
  • Entrepreneurial orientation with excitement and desire to work in a maturing startup environment. Excited to contribute and jump in on initiatives.
  • Deep curiosity about planning issues and an interest in incorporating an equity lens to our work is strongly encouraged.
We expect candidates won’t have all of these skills together and we’re excited to talk to you to better understand what skills you would bring to the team and our work.

Candidates should submit a resume, cover letter, and work sample demonstrating your work against the skills outlined for this role  in PDF format. 

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