Internship Opportunities
| The following is from the PWAD page in the UNC Undergraduate Bulletin (2019-2020). There are a lot of words, but please read them, it will avoid a lot of unnecessary emails:
“Experiential Education Internship courses provide students with the opportunity to earn academic credit while obtaining practical work experience in agencies and organizations clearly related to national and international security. In recent years students have served in these and other agencies: The Central Intelligence Agency, Durham Police Department, Office of Naval Intelligence, Defense Intelligence Agency, Carolina for Kibera, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Peace Action, United States Army Special Operations Command, and many more. Students are limited to one internship for credit, and all internships are limited to three hours of academic credit. Although some routine administrative tasks are required in any professional setting, the expectation is that a majority of the intern’s work will be directed toward the substantive mission of the agency and that tasks will be of a nature to justify awarding academic credit. All internships require prior approval, and all must consist of at least eight hours per week and at least 100 hours per semester. Students must sign an internship contract (https://pwad.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/245/2023/11/Internship-Contract-.pdf) with their agency and faculty supervisor (Navin Bapat), setting out expectations and course requirements. Interns are required to keep a daily internship journal. Once approved for an internship, students enroll in PWAD 393, which is offered on a Pass/Fail basis only and does not count toward the nine courses required for the major. Students wishing credit towards the major derived from their internship work should pursue an independent study with a faculty supervisor either while taking the internship or in the next semester. That independent study should produce a major written product, would be graded normally, and receives credit in the major.” Internships Previously Held by PWAD Majors The following list was created through the experiences of our majors and does not represent official endorsement by the Curriculum. Students can consult with University Career Services for more information and help on obtaining internships (http://careers.unc.edu/students/internship-search). Note that many summer internships, especially those for intelligence agencies, have deadlines in the fall prior to their start date. Students interested in a summer internship should begin the process during the late summer and early in the fall. If there is not an online form for a specific position, it is best to reach out to their human resources point of contact for recruiting or internships. Our former majors currently employed in agencies agree that the easiest way to get an agency job after graduation is to have previous internship experience there. Many federal internships are paid, will get you a clearance, and will put your foot in the door. Furthermore, departments are restricted in their number of billets, but interns don’t count against those billet restrictions. It is, therefore, much less competitive to become an intern than to jump straight into the intelligence community after an undergraduate or graduate career. For students looking to do research, those internships listed here with a ** preceding their name have in the past provided opportunities for significant student research. It may be possible to “pair up” such an internship with an independent study for additional credit. Please consult with the PWAD chair about how to do this. |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/careercenter/ American Enterprise Institute https://www.aei.org/internships/ Arms Control Association Atlantic Council https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/careers/internships/ Bipartisan Policy Center https://bipartisanpolicy.org/internships/ The Brookings Institute Capital Semester in Washington, DC/TFAS (various internships coordinated through Georgetown University) Carolina for Kibera http://cfk.unc.edu/action/fellowships/ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace https://carnegieendowment.org/about/employment Cato Institute Center for American Progress Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation Center for Global Development https://www.cgdev.org/page/internship-opportunities-cgd Center for International Policy Center for Strategic and International Studies Council on Foreign Relations https://www.cfr.org/career-opportunities/internships Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) www.intelligencecareers.gov/icstudents.html The Eben Tisdale Fellowship Technology and Policy Internship Fonkoze USA Freedom House https://freedomhouse.org/about-us/careers Friends Committee on National Legislation Henry L. Stimson Center Heritage Foundation https://www.heritage.org/young-leaders-program The Institute for National Strategic Studies Institute for Policy Studies Institute for Science and International Security *Note: Qualified applicants should be able to translate Mandarin into English. Institute for the Study of War http://www.understandingwar.org/career-opportunities International Institute for Strategic Studies Lab for Unconventional Conflict Analysis and Simulation (LUCAS) Mercy Corps http://jobs.jobvite.com/mercycorps?c=Internships Middle East Institute https://www.mei.edu/get-involved/internships Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) http://www.concordia.ca/research/migs/about/interns.html National Endowment for Democracy https://www.ned.org/about/jobs/ Office of Naval Intelligence http://www.oni.navy.mil/Join-Us/Intern-Programs Office of Public Affairs, U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Department of Justice The Partnership for Public Service Fellows Internship Program Peace Action Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute http://pksoi.armywarcollege.edu/ Pickering Fellowship https://pickeringfellowship.org/ Project on Government Oversight, Center for Defense Information RAND Corporation https://www.rand.org/about/edu_op.html Reaching Critical Will Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) http://www.start.umd.edu/careers/internships Taxpayers for Common Sense Union of Concerned Scientists U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program Washington Foreign Press Center, Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State The Washington Institute for Near East Policy https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/about/employment Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control Women’s Actions for New Directions Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security https://www.wcaps.org/job-postings Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars https://www.wilsoncenter.org/internships World Vision (humanitarian NGO focused on international aid for children)
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