Business Intelligence Intern (Remote)

About The Jackson Times:

We cover city council, school board, high school sports and obituaries. Everyone writes, edits, takes photos and posts to the website. Press credentials and parking are provided.

About the role:

The Jackson Times needs a data analytics intern to build reports and dashboards for the Growth Analytics team. Remote within the US. The team meets in Jackson once a quarter, travel covered. Normal business hours, Monday to Friday, with some flexibility. We use Slack, Notion and Google Meet. Cameras on for team calls.

What you'll do:

• Check numbers across sources and flag mismatches before reports go out
• Join a weekly call with the analytics lead to review your work
• Build and update dashboards in Power BI, Tableau or Looker Studio
• Create charts and short slide decks for the monthly review call
• Document metric definitions so everyone calculates churn and conversion the same way
• Prepare the weekly MIS report and send it to the team lead every Monday
• Analyse funnel drop-offs and summarise findings in a one-page note
• Clean and merge data in Excel or Google Sheets using VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP and pivot tables

Requirements:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2026, 2027 or 2028
• Basic SQL, enough to write SELECT queries with joins and filters
• Available 20 to 40 hours a week, Monday to Friday
• Some familiarity with Power BI or Tableau, even from a course or certification
• Laptop with Excel or Google Sheets and a stable internet connection

Preferred:

• Knowledge of basic statistics such as medians, percentiles and correlation
• Python with pandas for data cleaning

What you get out of it:

• Presenting numbers in a way non-technical people can act on
• How business metrics like CAC, churn and retention are actually calculated
• Top interns are considered for a junior analyst opening
• You will build at least one dashboard that managers use every week

Duration: 5 months

Start date: Immediately

Stipend: $29.50 to $41.50 per hour

What we offer:

• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Home office setup stipend
• Company laptop
• Paid company holidays

Duration: 5 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at The Jackson Times.