Office of the Lieutenant Governor - Internship Opportunity (Spring 2022)

INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY Office of Illinois Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton Justice, Equity, and Opportunity Initiative Spring 2022 Hello, The Office of the Lieutenant Governor is currently seeking students who want to become involved in governmental work with the Justice, Equity, and Opportunity (JEO) Initiative. The JEO Initiative centralizes the state’s criminal justice reform efforts and promotes economic opportunity in communities most impacted by a broken criminal justice system. JEO Initiative staff advise the Governor and the Lieutenant Governor on justice reform policy and legislation, oversee several criminal justice-related agencies, and convene advocates and stakeholders to advance equity-focused policies and practices. This internship is unpaid, but college credit may be applicable depending on your university's programming and work hours are flexible. Overview of Internship Role: The JEO Initiative is accepting an intern to work closely with Initiative staff on key projects, including implementation of the Restore, Reinvest and Renew (R3) grant program, the establishment of more robust reentry systems, and the planning process for events hosted by the office and the Lieutenant Governor’s public engagements. Intern Roles and Responsibilities: Assist with writing briefs and talking points for the Lieutenant Governor Assist with planning for the office’s criminal justice-focused events Conduct policy and legislative research Attend meetings with advocates, service providers, government leaders, and other criminal justice stakeholders Provide administrative support to the team HYBRID OPTIONS FOR THIS INTERNSHIP ARE AVAILABLE

Volpe Pathways Internship Program - Student Trainees

The US DOT Volpe Center is recruiting for a wide variety of Student Internship positions under the Pathways Internship Program.  To qualify for an Internship, you MUST be a continuing student enrolled or accepted for enrollment for the current/upcoming semesters for the duration of the internship as a condition of employment, taking at least a half-time course load. You will be required to provide documentation to support eligibility. Students may be employed throughout the academic year.

s a student intern you will work as a member of one of Volpe’s organizational teams. Project work varies by division, to learn more visit: https://www.volpe.dot.gov/our-work. You will carry out specific assignments in accordance with defined work procedures outlined by your supervisor. Complexity of duties increases with experience.

Major duties may include:

• Performing a variety of assignments selected to broaden skills and provide practical experience aimed at developing the employee’s skills and knowledge to perform progressively complex assignments.
• Assignments at this level are designed to orient, train, and increase the student’s knowledge in his/her perspective area of study.
• Assisting specialists/analysts in developing material for briefings, reports, presentations and conference materials needed by supervisor and executive management.
• Developing documents, such as research based papers, graphs, charts, and other data to be used by transportation officials in defining transportation challenges and recommending options and potential solutions.
• Assisting management in collecting, organizing and maintaining program and/or functional documentation and materials.
• Performing a variety of program support functions, such as inputting, assigning, maintaining, monitoring, or updating work status and records as well as administering and performing other support activities.
• Participating in meetings, events, and briefings.
• Preparing a variety of correspondence, memoranda, and information as requested.
• Traveling to field sites for testing or assignments and performing other related duties, as appropriate.

The ideal candidates are Undergraduate and Graduate students who have demonstrated leadership, innovation, and self-initiative. This is a great opportunity for current students with an interest in transportation, majoring in science, engineering, technology, administration, finance, mathematics, business, economics, legal, program support, policy analysis, planning, operations research, computer science/IT, cybersecurity and research based majors.

Flexibility, creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to take initiative will help you to find—or to create—the projects that interest you the most. Good social skills will allow you to establish a close rapport with our clients both over the phone and in the field. Here is your opportunity to study trains, planes, automobiles, boats, buses, bicycles, traffic lights, pipelines, sidewalks, unmanned and autonomous systems, or hyperloops—yes, even hyperloops. To learn more about the work we do, please visit our website: www.volpe.dot.gov/our-work.

This is a temporary internship to complete project work that is temporary in nature. The appointment is not-to-exceed September 24, 2022, and can be extended without further competition to a new temporary appointment at management’s discretion based on the need of the organization for the work to continue and provided the employee remains eligible for employment in the Pathways Intern Program.  Internships are expected to begin in May 2022, however, applications will be accepted for a limited number of positions available as early as January 2022.

Volpe is committed to fostering an all-inclusive diverse workforce where employees feel valued for their unique backgrounds and qualities and have a sense of belonging and engagement in helping to advance transportation for the public good.

Volpe’s Pathways Internship Program is designed to provide interns an opportunity to broaden their perspectives on issues facing government. Interns will work throughout the Volpe Center and support higher-level employees in coordinating, facilitating, and implementing activities within the division or office to which they are assigned; and be exposed to and participate in activities, innovations, and challenges facing the Transportation Industry.

Upon graduation and completion of program requirements you may be non-competitively converted, without a break in service, to a term (time-limited), career, or career conditional (permanent) appointment in the federal government with a GS-12 full performance level. Grade level upon conversion will be determined by management and neither conversion nor promotion under this Program is guaranteed.

 Apply here.