
The internship will be hosted within the Scottish Government’s Office of the Chief Economic Adviser (OCEA), specifically in the Directorate for Chief Economist’s OCEA: Business Economic & Sector (BES) team. This team provides economic analysis support to DG Economy, working alongside policy advisers, statisticians, and researchers. The internship will involve providing analytical and data analysis support for the delivery of the Scottish Government’s National Innovation Strategy, with project details tailored to the intern’s skills and the team’s specific needs.
Transform intersectional statistics into meaningful data visualisations in Scottish Government’s Equality Evidence Finder Dashboard
The Equality Evidence Finder (EEF) is a data dashboard for equality evidence built on R Shiny. The Equality Analysis Team’s Statistician is currently undertaking a programme of redevelopment of the EEF to improve accessibility, usability, and automation. The intern taking on this role will take the lead on a specific element of this project which will involve developing the presentation of intersectional equality evidence on the dashboard, thereby improving user experience and filling data gaps. Therefore experience of coding in R packages ggplot2 and tidyverse are essential, while experience of coding in R shiny is desirable.
Rural Scotland Indicators and Data Dashboard
This project is to analyse Rural Scotland quantitative data in order to up-date this dashboard with Key Performance Indicators for the Rural Delivery Plan. Time series analysis is required as well as the ability to write a summary report presenting statistical trends in a visual form. The intern would have to extract and analyse statistics on the following topics:
1. Economic development;
2. Transport;
3. Housing;
4. Social justice;
5. Population;
6. Digital connectivity;
7. Education and skills;
8. Health and social care.

The intern will be tasked with finding and collating. then comparing and contrasting available metrics of interest from a range of data sources from across government, public and private sectors that could potentially support the existing reporting on Labour Market Statistics in Scotland. The intern will assess which data sources collect similar things, what unique metrics each data source collects, identify gaps in the data, and to assess opportunities that could be created via data linkage projects. The intern will produce a final summary of what data can be achieved from what combination of sources to inform the development and future-proofing of Labour Market Statistics for Scotland.
Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division Internship – Monitoring and Evaluation of Agricultural Reform
The project you would be working on is in support of the development of Scotland’s Agricultural Reform Programme Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Framework. This initiative is crucial for assessing the environmental and climate outcomes of the programme, ensuring it drives tangible progress in sustainability and biodiversity. The work will involve designing an intuitive and visually engaging framework that clearly communicates the programme’s goals, performance metrics, interdependencies across different government strategies, and how they align with Scotland’s broader environmental and climate objectives.