Join us as an intern

Washington Business Week’s exciting and competitive internship program is open to highly motivated high school students from sophomore to senior year and college undergraduates who have attended at least one Business Week Program. It requires long hours, a great attitude, and hard work. Our internships will provide experiential learning activities that develop the teamwork, leadership, and career skills you will need to prosper as a young adult and succeed in college and the workplace.

Examples of 2023 Summer Intern Responsibilities: 

Virtual:

• Assist with program set-up and registration.
• Assist with virtual student placement in breakout rooms.
• Work with virtual speakers, business professionals, and adults to welcome them on the virtual camp platform and introduce them to the students.
• Welcome students in the morning and facilitate conversations – lots of energy is needed for this task.
• Work in virtual company rooms to assist Company Advisors.
• Ensure pictures of the camp are taken.
• Creation of the camp culminating video for presentation at the awards ceremony and to be used in marketing.
• Update WBW’s Social Media.
• Virtual Training with the staff team to be conducted before the internship.

In-Person:

• Assist with program set-up and registration.
• Answer Business Week phones and perform general office duties.
• Check and/or set up rooms for speakers and events and help with AV, lighting, etc.
• Organize company photo sessions, i.e. make sure companies arrive as scheduled and assist the Program Manager.
• Take photos and videos of program activities throughout the week.
• Deliver morning and afternoon snacks to student groups.
• Update Washington Business Week social media.
• Set a good example for other students to follow.
• 1/2 Day Training with the staff team and Company Advisors on Sunday before the program.

Summer Programs (General) Internship
Help to give this year’s group of students the same great experience you had at a Washington Business Week program and get a behind-the-scenes look at just what it takes to run an amazing week-long summer program. Summer Programs Interns will assist with program set-up prior to student arrival, support the Program Chair, support speaker and workshop activities, and support the Business Week office with operations including data entry, answering phones, room staging, sorting and maintaining documents and supplies, and packing and unpacking. Summer (General) Intern Job Description.

Photography Internship – In-Person Program Only. 
If you love photographing people and events, this is the internship for you! Spend a week helping to document all the excitement at Washington Business Week programs through pictures and video. The Summer Photography Intern will be responsible for taking photos each day, uploading pictures to the web/Facebook/social media, filming camp events, editing pictures and video, and creating an end-of-week slide show/video. The photos will be used to market the programs to future students, alumni, current and potential sponsors, and volunteers. The person in this position may also be called upon to assist the staff and other interns during the program. Photo Intern Job Description.

Questions? Please contact us by E-mail.