Data Science Internship 2024

UK National Audit Office

Nov 4, 2023

Applications are closed

Internship
Full-time
Off-cycle Internship
Data
Newcastle, +1

Requirements

Skills required:
No previous experience of audit is necessary, and training will be provided in key data science skills such as R and Python.
An interest in learning programming skills is required; previous programming experience is desirable but not essential.
Educational requirements:
We do have some minimum criteria which you will need to meet:
120 UCAS points from the 2017 tariff from your top 3 A Level grades (or equivalent). General Studies does not count. If you have 104 UCAS points from the 2017 tariff (or equivalent) you may still be eligible to apply
An undergraduate degree course with a substantive quantitative component such as data science, operational research, mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, management science, economics (the data science internship is unlikely to be suitable for people studying accounting finance degree courses), where:
You are in your second year of a sandwich degree course
You are in your final year and are expecting a 2.1 degree or better, or
You have completed your undergraduate degree course and achieved a 2.1 degree or better

Responsibilities

You’ll start out working as a team member in our Analysis Hub. In your first month you will undertake intensive training in our programming and development tools and languages. From your second month you will start to apply the skills you have learned to real life problems, helping the office produce insights into the data we receive from government departments. You will also get the opportunity to collaborate in the review of government models which produce estimates for the audited financial accounts
You’ll benefit from dedicated training to develop skills using R, SQL and Python, mixed with the opportunity to put those skills into practice developing new applications, as well as getting your hands dirty doing analysis and reviewing models produced by government. By the time you have completed your year, you will have outstanding professional experience in the application of data science and modelling skills.

UK National Audit Office

The UK’s independent public spending watchdog

Government

Industry

501-1000

Employees

1983

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

The National Audit Office (NAO) is the UK’s independent public spending watchdog. We support Parliament in holding government to account and we help improve public services through our high-quality audits. We scrutinise public spending for Parliament and are independent of government and the civil service. We help Parliament hold government to account and we use our insights to help people who manage and govern public bodies improve public services. The Comptroller and Auditor General (C&AG), Gareth Davies, is an Officer of the House of Commons and leads the NAO. We audit the financial accounts of departments and other public bodies. We also examine and report on the value for money of how public money has been spent.