Monitoring & Insights Internship - West Coast Remote

Summary

Penta Group is a corporate affairs advisory firm that helps organizations predict what matters and shape outcomes through intelligence, stakeholder insights, and strategic counsel. The Monitoring & Insights Intern will support real-time monitoring and proprietary insights work by analyzing news, media, and data, creating alerts and reports, developing visualizations, and translating findings into actionable client insights.

Responsibilities

• Monitor news and events across outlets and platforms, including print, digital, television, radio, and social media
• Collaborate with a team of analysts to alert the news to clients in a timely and effective manner
• Collect and prepare data to support media analysis and scheduled report deliveries
• Assist with long-term research projects
• Create pivot tables from Excel report data
• Update report graphics and charts for review
• Write descriptive text to tell the stories behind data
• Validate and interpret automated scoring from Penta’s proprietary platform on reputation risk, and stakeholder views

Skills

• A bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Experience writing analytical reports & creating engaging presentations using Microsoft office, or Google Suite products
• A solid understanding of leveraging Excel for exploratory data analysis & visualization purposes
• A strong interest in media, the 24/7 news cycle, and the intersection of culture, business, and politics
• Excellent communication, organizational, and writing skills
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand the deeper meaning behind content or data
• Meticulous attention to detail and a strong ownership mentality
• Coachability and possess a learning & growth oriented mindset
• The ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities
• Experience working in teams with a collaborative mindset
• Only considering applicants located on the west coast of the United States
• Able to work remotely 35-40 hours per week during a 11 am - 7 pm PT shift
• Occasional afternoon shifts (2 pm - 5 pm PT) on both Saturday and Sunday will be required on a rotational basis every six weeks throughout the internship
• Where a focus on communications, journalism, economics, history, or another social science is preferred

Qualifications

Must Haves

• A bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Experience writing analytical reports & creating engaging presentations using Microsoft office, or Google Suite products
• A solid understanding of leveraging Excel for exploratory data analysis & visualization purposes
• A strong interest in media, the 24/7 news cycle, and the intersection of culture, business, and politics
• Excellent communication, organizational, and writing skills
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand the deeper meaning behind content or data
• Meticulous attention to detail and a strong ownership mentality
• Coachability and possess a learning & growth oriented mindset
• The ability to prioritize multiple, competing priorities
• Experience working in teams with a collaborative mindset
• only considering applicants located on the west coast of the United States
• able to work remotely 35-40 hours per week during a 11 am - 7 pm PT shift
• Occasional afternoon shifts (2 pm - 5 pm PT) on both Saturday and Sunday will be required on a rotational basis every six weeks throughout the internship

Nice to Haves

• where a focus on communications, journalism, economics, history, or another social science is preferred

Benefits

• Eligible for overtime; any pre-approved hours worked over 40 hours per week will be paid at time and a half.
• Dynamic and supportive environment for learning and growth
• Access to ongoing training to help develop a strong understanding of the technology and methods used to monitor the news
• Mentoring opportunities and support in the development of long-term career goals