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Funded Internships Available!

The Center for Career, Life, and Community Engagement invites you to apply to our Signature Funded Internships which provide a $5,000 award and include experiences at:

  • Merit School of Music: The main focus of the Merit School internship will be to help and support the Merit library staff. Additionally, the internship will include a number of hours each week providing support in the student services area.
  • Lyric Opera of Chicago: This internship will provide the opportunity to work on a variety of projects in preparation for Lyric’s 2018/19 season. This position will assist all major areas of Development, including Donor Reporting, Annual and Planned Giving, Individual Giving, Institutional Partnerships, Women’s Board, Chapters Executive Board/Chapters, Guild Board, Ryan Opera Center Board, and Lyric Young Professionals.
  • Ensemble Español Dance Company: For the summer of 2019 this internship will cover a broad area of non profit arts management including educational outreach, community workshops, arts administration, development and the annual American Spanish Dance and Music Festival.  Start date is approximately June 10th.
  • The Center for Deep Listening: The student intern will work at the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer. The internship will include work as a teaching assistant for a course on Deep Listening, working in the Center’s extensive archives, and bringing Deep Listening practice into schools.
  • New York Jazz Academy: Alumnus Javier Arau ’98 will integrate the student directly into his administration and engage the intern in strategic planning for his expanding organization. Pending faculty approval, the intern may have the opportunity to work in a teaching capacity during summer workshops for younger age groups.
  • Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute: This position is to provide general assistance and administrative support for one of the programming teams in the Weill Music Institute (WMI), the education and social impact arm of Carnegie Hall, one of the leading music presenters in the world. The student intern will work with a dedicated staff to help prepare for the upcoming season of programming.
  • Bread for the World: Bread for the World Institute provides policy analysis on hunger and strategies to end it. The Institute educates opinion leaders, policymakers, and the public about hunger in the U.S. and abroad. The primary objective for the internships is to provide legislative and administrative support to the GR policy analyst(s) responsible for international humanitarian and poverty-focused development assistance issues.

Apply online here! Deadline for the application is March 25, 2019.