Who it is for.
Employers who have to account for a programme, and the standard we hold ourselves to in helping them.
Employers who have to account for a programme.
Five situations the product was built around. Each one is a real reporting obligation, not a persona.
- Emiratisation reporting
An employer under quota obligations
The problem: the national-talent programme is running, but nobody can state what it returned. The quota cost avoided for each Emirati intern present is a first-class, dated line in the calculation — and the report tells the reader which rate year it used.
- Defending a budget
An HR director facing a finance committee
The problem: the committee treats interns as a cost centre and asks for evidence. They arrive with a versioned report, a break-even month and reviewed work behind every figure, rather than a slide of adjectives.
- Multi-department
Several departments, one programme
The problem: reviews stall because nobody knows whose queue an item is in. Each supervisor sees only their own interns; the admin sees the whole programme and where it is waiting.
- Placements
A university or training partner
The problem: placements need evidence they produced real work, not attendance. Every accepted submission is dated, attributed and unalterable, so the placement record stands up years later.
- Group companies
Several organisations under one owner
The problem: each entity reports separately and must not see the others. Every organisation keeps its own data, its own users and its own palette, with no visibility across the boundary.
- Four roles
Who does what, once a programme is live.
- Company admin
- owns the programme and runs the calculation
- Supervisor
- reviews their own interns' work
- Intern
- does the tasks and submits them
- Platform console
- for the operator
The standard we hold ourselves to.
InternROI exists so that an employer in the UAE can answer one question with evidence: what did this programme return? It is built for programmes that will be examined — by a finance committee, a board, a quota report, or a university partner.
Three commitments follow from that, and they constrain the product more than they market it. The headline counts verified value only. The assessment record is append-only, so history cannot be tidied. Every reported figure names the methodology version behind it.
Where a number depends on regulation — the Emiratisation quota rate — it is a dated input the reader is told to check, not a constant buried in code. Where something has not happened yet, it is labelled a forecast and kept out of the total.
InternROI is an internship management platform first. Where a programme also forms part of a company’s CSR commitment, recognising its contribution is being arranged with the UAE CSR Fund and is not yet confirmed. When it is, it will be optional and off unless you switch it on — the return on the programme is reported the same way either way.
Operated by Opportunities Nearby FZE, Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park (SRTIP), Sharjah, United Arab Emirates · Licence No. 11131 · opportunities-nearby.com. The platform is developed by Charwa LLC, Pennsylvania, United States · charwa.biz.