Summer Interns

Intern for a Semester with Catholic Charities

Catholic Charities hosts undergraduate student interns during the fall and spring semesters in placements throughout the organization.  You are welcome to apply for a semester internship placement with Catholic Charities, if one of these describes you:

• an undergraduate student enrolled in a degree program at a local college or university
• an undergraduate participating in a “semester in Washington” program
• are taking a pre- or post-baccalaureate gap year
• are enrolled in a program of clerical formation and development

If you are looking for a graduate level and/or clinically supervised internship placement, please see information about those placements here.

for Fall Semester Placements:

Apply by August 15th

Serve from early-September thru mid-December

for Spring Semester Placements:

Apply by December 1

Serve mid-January – mid-May

Placements:

Interns will develop a broadly applicable work skills in a professional, non-profit setting and are expected to work a regular weekly schedule to accumulate the hours of experience required by your program, typically 30 hours a week. Internships at Catholic Charities are unpaid and may be one or more of following central services and program service areas*:

• Social Service Delivery and Case Management
• Volunteer & Community Engagement
• Communications
• Development
• Parish Partners
• Finance
• Information Technology
• Community Organizing/Outreach
• Logistics and Warehouse Management
• Quality Improvement / Quality Assurance (public health focused)
• Professional Development

Desired Skills, Experience & Characteristics:

1. Must be at least 18 years old
2. Able to work in a hybrid environment: both remotely and in-person
3. Familiar with Microsoft O365 suite of applications: Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint and TEAMS
4. Be a strong oral and written communicator
5. Have strong research and analytical skills
6. Be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, including boosters

Benefits of Internship:

• Insight into non-profit management, social service delivery, and the characteristics and needs of people accessing services
• Experience producing high quality work in a professional environment, receiving feedback on work and products and processes, collaborating with seasoned professionals from diverse backgrounds
• Receiving routine supervision focused on your professional development
• Sense of belonging and participation in a mission-driven organization
• Opportunities to combine behind the scenes and front-line work to make an impact
• Opportunities to initiate and execute meaningful projects
• Opportunities to work in bilingual settings with native speakers or several languages
• Specific experiences, skills, and references to add to your resume

Time Commitment:

• Typically, 30 hours a week for undergrads and pre- post-bac gap years
• Typically, 12-15 weeks / semester
• Regular weekly schedule developed with your placement supervisor with hours logged in the volunteer system

Location:

• Hybrid combination of remote and onsite
• Typically, internship placements are in DC (Gallery Place, Columbia Heights, Brookland) or Montgomery County (Wheaton, Gaithersburg) or Charles County (Waldorf)
• Placements may be at any of Catholic Charities ~30 locations in DC and Maryland

Next Steps:

• Apply to serve in this role 
• If you see the green Fill in an application button to the right, click it and follow the prompts to submit your application
• Complete your application: scroll down to the “schedule” heading and click the “+Sign Up” button

Questions?

Contact us at voluneer@CC-DC.org