MIP Internships
Internships
Gain professional experience outside of the classroom
What is the MIP Internship?
The Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy program encourages students to secure summer internships that provide work experience focusing on international policy issues within MIP areas of specialization.
Funding
MIP provides a stipend that enables students to work in a professional capacity for organizations offering unpaid or minimally funded summer internships.
MIP Career Development
MIP provides career advising, resources, and platforms that facilitate U.S. and international students exploring careers and searching for jobs, internships and fellowships.
Internship Highlight
Spencer Kim, Class of 2013, interned with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), UNDP Environment Team in Suva, Fiji
"UNDP's Fiji Multi-Country Office (MCO) supports ten Pacific Island Countries (PICs), including Fiji, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), Kiribati, Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI), Nauru, Palau, Soloman Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu through knowledge and capacity development. I interned with the UNDP Environment Team, which strengthens the legal and institutional frameworks for sustainable development. In partnership with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Fiji MCO assists PICs with assessing climate change adaptation, mitigation, biodiversity conservation, sustainable land management, as well as implementing strategies from such assessments, identifying national capacitites to manage natural resources, and developing capacity to meet obligations to multilateral environment agreements.
I spent the summer reviewing the Sustainable Land Management projects of all PICs, a set of medium-sized projects implemented over a three-to-four year period by the UNDP Environment Team. These projects focus on building capacity and mainstreaming sustainable land management against land degradation caused by climate change and rapid population growth. Based on the evaluation reports, projects' challenges included overly ambitious goals, poor management of local stakeholders, inefficiences, and resources shortages.
Ultimately I realized that, despite these project limitations, UNDP is the most appropriate and reliable agency to implement large and long-term development policy and projects with PICs. The greatest benefit to me from my internship was the understanding I gained about the entire scope of UN project development - from project formulation to funding acquisition, execution, and terminal evaluation."
Past Internships
World Bank
Our students have interned with various groups and projects within the World Bank.
United Nations
Our students have interned with various groups within the UN, across the world.
Cologne Institute for Economic Research
One of our students interned in Cologne, Germany researching refugee resettlement and labor market integration.
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
One of our students interned with NOAA in Hawai´i to measure the socio-economic impacts of climate change.
Interested in having one of our students as an intern?
We invite companies and organizations to contact us to discuss the possibility of having one of our students intern with them. Please contact Maeve Richard for more information.