the application for the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) Voluntary Internship Program for the Spring 2025 semester is officially open! This is a great opportunity that could be of interest to the students who attend your University —applications close on November 15, 2024. 

At NARA, we’re looking for passionate individuals to join us for an exceptional internship experience in various departments and areas such as: 

• Archival Processing
• Business
• Communications & Marketing
• Digitizing Archival Materials
• Editorial
• Education & Exhibits
• Emergency Management 
• Equal Employment Opportunity 
• External Affairs & Public Relations
• Facility Operations & Logistics
• History
• Legal
• Legislative
• Metadata 
• Museums & Public Programs (including at Presidential Libraries)
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Photo Services
• Physical Security 
• Project Management 
• Records Management
• Reference Services
• Special Events

This is a unique chance to complement your academic training with real-world experience. Although our internships are unpaid, they can be completed for academic credit or to fulfill internship or service hour requirements.

NARA seeks students and recent graduates to complete 12-week internships at various facilities across the country. These internships require a commitment of 10 to 40 hours per week, with a minimum of 100 hours over the course of the semester. Spring interns must work on-site at least 50 percent of the time. Interns will collaborate with their supervisors to determine their work schedules.

Discover more about who we are and learn about the Voluntary Internship Program.

Check out our Spring 2025 internship opportunities and apply by Friday, November 15! 

Please contact us at internships@nara.gov with any questions.

Voluntary Internship Program

National Archives and Records Administration

archives.gov/internships | internships@nara.gov

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs is offering 2 pathway internships for undergraduate students! This is a great way to hone your analytical and statistical skills and is a great path into the Federal Government! More information on the internship and how to apply can be found at this link: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/816429900

Spring 2025 Undergraduate Intern | Death Penalty Information Center

Deadline: November 7

The internship will be hybrid, with some of the work expected to be performed in-office. The undergraduate interns will provide support to the Center’s small staff through research and writing projects and various daily tasks. With supervision by DPI staff, the undergraduate interns will work on data aggregation and analysis, ad hoc research projects, content drafting, and administrative tasks.

Criminal Justice Research Intern | Cato Institute

Deadline: November 3

You will help our criminal justice team roll back unconstitutional overcriminalization, restore accountability for police and prosecutors who violate people’s rights, and challenge the scourge of plea-driven mass adjudication. As an intern in Cato’s Project on Criminal Justice, you will work with leading scholars and activists on researching legal briefs, responding to the many injustices perpetrated by the criminal justice system, and supporting legislative outreach efforts.

Legal Undergraduate Intern
Location: Washington, DC
Salary: $17.50 per hour
Closing Date: November 1

Each year, 40,000 people in the U.S. die from gun violence. We can change that. No organization has a more comprehensive and systematic approach to ending America’s gun violence epidemic. They say it can’t be done. But we know Americans can do anything. Even end this epidemic of gun violence. For we are more powerful than any problem when we work as one. Now is the time to unite people, from coast to coast, young and old, liberal and conservative, fed up and fired up, and free our country from what is killing us. It’s in our hands.

Job Summary:

Interns will take on a variety of projects critical for the development and litigation of potential and current cases with our Affirmative Litigation team, as well as become involved in our constitutional space. They will work closely with Brady lawyers to draft memos on assigned topics, conduct factual research, and delve into some of the most rapidly developing areas of law. They will garner knowledge of several of our current gun industry accountability cases and Second Amendment amicus portfolio. They will become part of the innovative and academically stimulating environment that helps to create strong gun violence prevention precedent throughout the country.

Interns will gain hands-on litigation experience and will support all phases of legal advocacy, including developing new cases, helping prepare for trial and depositions, assisting with discovery, monitoring and exploring developments in gun violence litigation, and conducting research. Aimed at ending chronic violence that perpetuates cycles of poverty, most of our litigation is working to deter gun suppliers’ exploitation of low-income communities. Our interns support civil suits against the gun industry’s distribution of firearms to dealers despite knowing that those dealers will sell guns to traffickers, allow straw purchases, and fail to conduct proper background checks.

Interns will also have the opportunity to help conduct research for amicus briefs and track and analyze constitutional law issues (including the Second Amendment). Finally, our interns would be able to assist in our racial justice research.

Brady is looking for undergraduate students who are passionate about gun violence prevention, impact litigation, and racial justice.

The Bethany Beach Police Department is still taking applications for summer 2025 Seasonal Police Officers. Every year, this agency hires approximately 17 young men and women who want to gain hands-on experience as police officers. These individuals perform basic law enforcement duties under supervision during the summer months (May-Sept).  While doing so, the agency mentors them, trains them and works with them to gain internship requirements if needed. In return, their employment helps the town provide more boots on the ground for the safety of visitors and residents during the summer beach season.

Spring 2025 Policy & Operations Intern | Council on Criminal Justice

Deadline: November 1

As an intern, you will gain experience in supporting the day-to-day operations of a nonpartisan think tank and invitational membership organization. Interns will play a key supporting role in in fulfilling the Council’s goal of serving as a catalyst for criminal justice policy based on facts, evidence, and fundamental principles of justice.

***CCJSERs, this is a fantastic internship and several of our students have gotten jobs here after graduating.***

The IRC in Silver Spring is now recruiting Spring 2025 interns! IRC internships give interns the opportunity to work directly with refugees to support them in accomplishing tasks needed to live successfully in the U.S. We offer 17 unique internships that provide a wide variety of opportunities to gain direct exposure to the refugee resettlement sector.

The IRC was founded at the behest of Albert Einstein in 1933 to assist people fleeing from persecution. Since then, the IRC has grown and works all over the world providing humanitarian support. In Silver Spring, the IRC works with refugees the moment they step off the plane to help them get situated and become self-sufficient members of their new community.

I’ve listed the titles and a description of each internship that is recruiting below. You can find the full description by going to the IRC Careers page and filtering by City (Silver Spring) and Employee Category (Intern). Prospective interns will use the same link to apply.

• Anti-Trafficking: The Anti-Trafficking Intern will work in close coordination with the case management teams to serve survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to navigate various systems to access resources and services.
• Asylee & Humanitarian Parolee Casework: The Asylee & Humanitarian Parolee Casework team is the first point of contact for asylee clients. Caseworkers provide 8 months of case management to asylees. The services include providing monthly cash assistance, ensuring that clients apply for public benefits such as Medicaid, food stamps, ensuring that clients apply for social security and enroll in health insurance and ESL classes.
• Career Development:The Career Development Program assists employed clients in securing job upgrades to improve economic conditions and align with career history and/or career objectives. The intern will work closely with the Career Development team and Financial Capabilities program to promote client self-sufficiency and encourage clients to work towards long-term career goals.
• Community Engagement: The aim of community engagement is to establish strong, mutually beneficial connections between the community and the IRC in Silver Spring order to garner monetary, in-kind and volunteer resources for refugee clients. The community engagement intern supports the administration of the family mentor program.
• Development: The development team focuses on securing funding for IRC offices; assisting with donor prospecting, research, data collection and grant management activities.
• RefugeeEconomic Empowerment: The Economic Empowerment program assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient by placing recently arrived refugees in their first job in the United States.  
• Refugee Employment and Skill-Building: The Refugee Employment and Skill-Building Program aims to reduce barriers to self-sufficiency and employment and assist refugees to secure full-time employment.
• Refugee Employment Coordination:The Employment Coordination Program supports humanitarian immigrants to achieve economic self-sufficiency through engagement in work participation activities including volunteering, internship procurement, vocational English as a second language classes, and referrals to certificate-bearing professional development courses.
• Financial Capabilities: The Financial Capabilities program supports clients to become financially capable through financial education, coaching and providing low-interest loan products. Services include financial education and counseling that help clients understand banking, budgeting, saving, debt management, building credit and auto purchase.
• Gender Equity: IRC programming assists refugees to become economically self-sufficient and supports acclimatization within the United States by providing access to casework services. This role will support the IRC’s Gender Equality work, cross-cutting programmatically and departmentally to support the administration of equitable services and the proper consideration of gender concerns in programmatic and departmental initiatives.
• Immigration Legal Services:The IRC’s Immigration Department provides high quality, low-cost immigration services, including filing applications for adjustment of status (i.e. green cards), work authorization, naturalization, family reunification for refugees, asylees, victims of trafficking and other immigrants.
• Operations: IRC’s Operations Team in Silver Spring, Maryland, supports operations functions and provides related administrative support, resulting in a well-functioning, compliant environment for staff, clients, and partners. This is a challenging position that requires strong organization, creative problem-solving, personal initiative, and the ability to work well in a multicultural and fast -paced environment.
• Refugee Walk-in Services: The Intake program is the first point of contact to all “walk-in” clients that visit the IRC in Silver Spring. We provide fast track enrollment in public benefits and referrals to internal and/or external resources and programs as needed.
• Extended Case Management: The Extended Case Management (ECM) team provides case management services to up to 400 new clients each year. The team works directly with new refugees, asylees, parolees, and other humanitarian immigrants resettling in the DC Metro area, including Haitian, Ukrainian, Latin American, African, and Middle Eastern individuals; utilizing a holistic 2Gen household approach for the families served, the team addresses both short-term and long-term barriers to support overall well-being in the US.
• Refugee Health and Social Integration: The refugee health and social integration intern will work in close coordination with the case management teams to serve refugees and other vulnerable immigrants who are struggling to navigate various systems to access resources and services.
• Refugee Resettlement:The Refugee Resettlement team supports refugees during their first eight months in the United States. The housing team prepares apartments for new families. Caseworkers connect refugees with services include providing monthly cash assistance, ensuring that clients apply for public benefits such Medicaid, food stamps, social security and enroll in health insurance and ESL classes. The cultural orientation team introduce refugees to U.S. customs and systems.
• Youth Program: The IRC’s Youth Program works to support the integration of school-age recently arrived refugees and asylees. Interns will support the enrolling of new clients in the youth program and completing individual service plans for each individual client.

All selected interns must undergo and clear a background and reference check in order to intern with the Silver Spring office. We ask that candidates make a $30 donation to help us cover the associated costs. Currently, 87% of our funding goes directly to programming to support our clients, and your help to cover this cost will ensure that no funding is directed away from serving our clients. Instructions will be provided after you have been selected to intern or volunteer. The IRC is not able to sponsor visas.

The ability to work in-person at least one day per week is required. Internships require a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week. Spring interns are expected to begin their internship by attending an in-person intern orientation on January 27th, 2025, from 9:15AM-3:30PM. The Spring internship terms ends on May 16^th, 2025. Please note, the deadline to apply for Spring 2025 internships is January 6, 2025.

Internships with the IRC in Silver Spring are unpaid. Spring 2025 interns may be eligible for per diem reimbursement at the rate of $15/day to offset the costs of food and travel. For information on scholarship opportunities, contact your university or the IRC Silver Spring Community Engagement Coordinator at Michalina.Kulesza@rescue.org.

We currently offer internships during the following semesters:
Spring: January – May
Summer: June– August
Fall: September – December
Internships are typically posted 2-3 months prior to the anticipated start date.

IRC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. IRC considers all applicants on the basis of merit without regard to race, sex, color, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

If you need assistance in the application or hiring process to accommodate a disability, you may request an accommodation at any time. Please contact Talent Acquisitions at IRC.Recruitment@rescue.org. As required by law, the IRC will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with a known disability.

Thank you for your attention and please don’t hesitate to reach out with questions.

Sincerely,

Michalina Kulesza

Michalina.Kulesza@rescue.org