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Government Internships

The following websites contain information about internship opportunities within the federal government for students and recent graduates.

  • America's Job Bank
    This can be a complex site, but it often indexes govt jobs.
  • Center for Defense Information
    CDI is a non-partisan think-tank that focuses on military and security issues that offers some paid internships in areas such as nuclear/space security/missile defense research, military policy/terrorism/Middle East research, public affairs/editing, computers, television, or Chinese-language journalism.
  • Central Intelligence Agency
    The CIA offers paid internships in Washington, DC to students in a variety of majors in many fields within the CIA.
  • Defense Intelligence Agency
    DIA provides accurate and timely information on ground, naval, air, and missile and space forces around the world. They seek people with strong research, analytical, and technical skills to work as intelligence officers, scientists, engineers, and information technology specialists. Offers paid summer internships.
  • Department of Energy
    Offers a new two-year corporate entry-level developmental program that allows participants to work and take training courses, focusing on either science/engineering or business.
  • Fed World
    Visit this site for available government positions
  • Federal Job Source
    Other sources of employment opportunities in the government
  • Government Accountability Office (formerly General Accounting Office)
    Offers paid internships in their offices around the US, through which interns can gain an understanding of the GAO's evaluation and auditing work. Students can apply to work on any of their teams, including the International Affairs and Trade Team and the Natural Resources and Environment Team.
  • Library of Congress
    "The Library of Congress Junior Fellows Program" allows students or recent graduates to work with primary source materials, organize and document archival collections, produce finding aids and bibliographic records, do bibliographical research; and contribute to the Library's efforts to digitize its historical collections.
  • National Nuclear Security Administration Nonproliferation Graduate Program
    Offers a 14-month graduate internship program for students interested in exploring a career in nuclear nonproliferation. Participants receive a salary for the duration of the program.
  • Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
    OPM is the federal government's Human Resources agency. This page has links to other lists of federal jobs and job search engines.
  • Presidential Management Fellows Program
    This two-year program is open to those completing a graduate degree and allows the selected fellows to serve four rotations in different government departments or agencies while receiving on-the-job training. Participants receive full federal benefits throughout the program and start at the GS-9 level with a salary of at least $36,000 a year.
  • StudentJobs
    The federal government's portal to student jobs and internships with the government.
  • U.S. Department of State
    Numerous REEI grad students have completed internships in US embassies abroad, working either as political or public affairs interns, combining foreign language practice with learning about the social and political conditions in countries in Eastern Europe or Central Asia. (Deadline for Summer internships is November 1.)
  • U.S. Agency for International Development
    USAID works on international economic growth, agriculture and trade; global health; and democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance and has offices worldwide.
  • Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
    Offers students internships as research assistants in areas such as development, financial management and at the Kennan Institute, which focuses on Russia and surrounding states.
  • USAJobs
    USAJOBS is the Federal Government's official one-stop source for Federal jobs and employment information.

 


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