Fall 2023 Human Resources Intern

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a high-caliber strategic policy institute that informs and shapes public policies to reduce poverty, promote equity, and build opportunity. It has a national reputation for conducting rigorous research and analysis, developing evidence-based policy ideas and strategies, shaping a broad array of policy debates at the federal and state levels, and influencing policy outcomes on a range of critical issues. It focuses on improving the lives of people with low or moderate incomes and examines how policies affect particular groups, including Black, Indigenous, and other people of color, immigrants, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ people. The Center is known for its unique capacity to blend rigorous, timely analysis with effective communications that enable policymakers and the media to make use of its work.

The Center seeks a Human Resources Intern to work with a close-knit, four-person HR team. Responsibilities will vary and include providing support in an array of HR functions. The intern will take on substantive projects related to benefits and pay, recruitment and onboarding, and personnel records management.

The intern will provide general administrative support to the HR department, handle confidential and non-routine information, assist with benefits administration, maintain data, process new employee paperwork, maintain filing of employee personnel documents, and track onboarding and offboarding checklists. The intern will also schedule/confirm orientation meetings or other departmental meetings, interviews, and work independently and within a team on special nonrecurring and ongoing projects as needed.

Successful interns will have a commitment to the Center’s mission to improve the well-being of low- and moderate-income people and advance racial equity.

To expand the diversity of voices that speak with authority in federal and state policy debates, the Center’s internship program identifies highly motivated candidates — particularly those with experience with communities that are underrepresented in policy debates — with a demonstrated interest in working on public policies that affect low-income and diverse communities and have implications for racial equity.

International students are welcome to apply. The Center does not provide financial sponsorship for visas or work permits. You must have documentation of work authorization for the United States AND a U.S. Social Security number to be employed by the Center. (Please indicate that you are an international student on the application form.)

Application Deadline: June 16, 2023, 11:59 p.m. EST

Internship Start Date: September 5, 2023

Internship End Date: December 8, 2023

The Center’s fall internship will be remote. Remote interns must be in the U.S. for the duration of the internship. Intern work hours are generally expected to be during core Eastern time business hours. Interns located in the Washington, D.C. metro area during the fall term may have the option to work on a hybrid schedule that includes at least two days per week in person at our D.C. office.

Work Hours: Interns should be available between 30-40 hours per week. Work schedules can be flexed to accommodate time zone differences, as well as classwork and other school commitments.