TRWIB Internship Program

TRWIB not only advocates for career exploration and experiential learning but also offers internship opportunities.

In TRWIB, interns are not used as a solution to temporarily increased workload or staff shortages. Instead, internship positions are strategically designed to advance TRWIB mission and to create a model for employers’ engagement in students’ career exploration.

The TRWIB internship program is built on partnerships with educational institutions and other engaged entities to assure that students’ working experience complements and advances their academic pursuits.

The TRWIB internship program expands team diversity, offers core staff without supervisory duties an opportunity to learn mentoring and leadership skills, builds reputation and potential staff pipeline, and provides feedback from emerging workforce perspective.

Model

TRWIB internship, at any length level, provides complex work experience, including opportunities to:

  • Learn background information on the regional workforce development system, public policy, labor market research, program monitoring, and program funding administration.
  • Experience a well-established, professional workplace, and develop high standard working habits.
  • Manage projects independently and through team collaboration, solicit inputs from staff and partner organizations, and present outcomes using a broad spectrum of methods (written, oral, graphic presentations).

Focus Areas

TRWIB offers working experience for individuals with diverse career interests and education levels. The four main internship focus areas are aligned with TRWIB core functions to maximize learning capacity for students and to provide all staff with the opportunity to mentor interns and manage internship projects. Other, ad hoc projects outside the focus areas may be added based on TRWIB needs.

Operations - This position is suitable for a high school student or high school drop-out with an interest in clerical tasks and basic computer network set-up and maintenance.

Program - This position is suitable for a college student or graduate with interested in partnership-based project management and/or program monitoring.

Policy - This position is suitable for a college graduate or graduate student with interests in public policy and research, regional economics, communications, and/or marketing.

Technology - This position is suitable for a graduate student with advanced skills in computer technology.

Find out what past TRWIB interns did and learned at TRWIB

For more information, contact: Vera Krofcheck vkrofcheck@trwib.org, 412-552-7095.