Power BI Intern: Build Dashboards & Insights

The Longwood Collective; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 25,000 - 34,000; Part time

Job summary

The Longwood Collective is seeking a focused Power BI Analyst Intern for the Area Planning Department. The role is 15-25 hours per week, September–December 2026, with in-person work in Boston.

You will perform data QA, collect additional data, and help build a Power BI dashboard to visualize trends for reporting, ensuring it can be maintained by non-technical staff. The intern will work with the project manager and IT to translate requirements into meaningful visuals, leverage Acumatica data,

Qualifications

• Experience with Power BI is required.
• Proficiency with Excel, SharePoint and the rest of the Microsoft Suite.
• Meticulous attention to detail and discretion handling sensitive data to minimize errors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Experience with data management software.
• Strong critical thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Build a Power BI dashboard for internal data analysis using formulas and SQL queries and user-friendly navigation.
• Co-lead meetings with senior management to determine useful visualizations and navigation structure for Area Planning and Communications.
• Interpret non-technical goals and suggest Power BI capabilities, mocking up options to align on the desired result.
• Find and scrub migrated data for duplicates, errors, and upload newly collected data.
• Evaluate data and bring recommendations, issues, and questions to the project manager.
• Take initiative to solve problems and schedule meetings.
• Assist in creating SOP for dashboard usage and instructions for LC staff to refresh in Acumatica.
• Present a dashboard walkthrough and instructions to the organization and collaborate with IT on sharing the dashboard in SharePoint.
• Adapt the dashboard for external sharing and collaborate with design consultant.

Skills

Power BI

Excel

SharePoint

MS Office

SQL basics

Data QA

Tools

Acumatica

Job description

The Longwood Collective is seeking a focused Power BI Analyst Intern for the Area Planning Department. The role is 15-25 hours per week, September–December 2026, with in-person work in Boston.

You will perform data QA, collect additional data, and help build a Power BI dashboard to visualize trends for reporting, ensuring it can be maintained by non-technical staff. The intern will work with the project manager and IT to translate requirements into meaningful visuals, leverage Acumatica data,