Nirjala Sharma

Nirjala Sharma is an Economics and Psychology undergraduate with hands-on experience across data collection, validation, and programme assessment, built through internships in the education and non-profit sectors. At TNS India Foundation, she worked as a Retention Survey Intern, monitoring alumni outcomes across cohorts, managing end-to-end survey data cleaning and validation, and synthesising findings into programme assessment summaries used by foundation leadership. She also worked as an HR Intern at Teach For India, screening candidate applications and coordinating structured interviews for the fellowship pipeline, and held roles at The Akanksha Foundation spanning device audits, teaching assistance, and alumni engagement.

Her coursework in Research Methods, Statistics, and Behavioural Economics complements this experience, and she is comfortable turning survey and candidate data into structured, decision-ready insights using Excel, including pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP and dashboarding, as well as R basics and SQL.

Nirjala is looking for research-driven, data-led roles and is considering opportunities as a Market Research Analyst, Behavioural Research Analyst (consumer insights/panels), Data/Business Analyst, UX Researcher, Associate Product Manager, Growth Analyst, People Analytics/HR Analytics Analyst, and Strategy/Management Consulting roles.