Internships

Intern holds a specimen collected as part of the ongoing Dragonfly Mercury Project

NPS

Geoscientists in the Park (GIP)

Every year, the Scientists in Parks Program places hundreds of college students, recent graduates, and early-career professionals across the National Park System to work on natural resource management needs. Each opportunity with the SIP Program affords a distinct and memorable experience with projects that vary based on location, length, focus, and complexity.

Who can apply: Undergraduate, graduate students, and recent graduates
Schedules: Summer, Fall/Winter, Year Round
Interest areas: Natural resource science fields (air resources, biological resources, geologic resources, natural sounds, night skies, and water resources)—field and office based internships focus on research, inventory and monitoring, curation of park natural resources, interpretation and education projects
Stipend: $1,400 - $2,400 per month, plus travel allowance
Partners: Stewards Individual Placements Program, The Geological Society of America.

Great Basin Institute (GBI)

The Great Basin Institute is an interdisciplinary field studies organization that promotes environmental research, education, and service throughout the West. GBI provides a wide variety of environmental services to train and develop the next generation of conservationists and resource managers.

Who can apply: Young adult 18+
Schedules: Seasonal positions year-round
Interest Areas: Visitor services and site operations, education and interpretation, archeological and natural resource management.
Stipend: $17-$19 per hour
Partners: Americorps, Great Basin Landscape Conservation Cooperative, The Corps Network, USDA Forest Service

Latino Heritage Internship Program

The Latino Heritage Internship offers internships rooted in a variety of disciplines from community outreach and communications to architecture and underwater archeology at National Park Service sites located throughout the nation.

Who can apply: Latinx undergraduates, graduate students, and recent graduates
Schedules: 10 or 11 weeks with a possibility to extend the internship through the school year, Summer
Interest areas: Natural and cultural resource management, interpretation, public affairs
Stipend: $400 to $480 a week plus travel and housing stipend
Partners: Hispanic Access Foundation and Environment for the Americas

 

SCC participants take a trip down the Colorado River to remove invasive plants

NPS

Conservation Corps

American Conservation Experience (ACE)

ACE has engaged thousands of young adults who have gained personal and professional skills and experience while completing needed conservation projects and having a true impact on America’s national parks, forests, wildlife refuges and other public lands. Take a look at their EPIC NPS Academy too. The EPIC NPS team partners with the National Park Service to provide work experience opportunities to emerging professionals work in areas such as: cultural resource management, wildlife monitoring, environmental education historic preservation, physical sciences, GIS, and many more.

Who can apply: Conservation Corps 18-25, Conservation Internship 18-35
Schedules: 8-12 week commitment, Year-round
Interest areas: Small crews work on trail restoration, historic preservation, wildlife survey, and more!
Stipend: Varies, Education Reward
Partner: American Conservation Experience, Americorps, The Corps Network

Southwest Conservation Corps

Southwest Conservation Corps provides youth, young adults, and veterans with structured, safe and challenging service and educational opportunities through projects that promote personal growth, the development of social skills, and an ethic of natural resource stewardship. The Southwest Conservation Corps program model incorporates guiding principles of experiential learning, respect, openness and willingness, commitment, responsibility, pride, excellence, health, safety, and fun.

Who can apply: Open to the public, youth and young adults ages 18-25
Schedules: 10 week commitment, Summer, Year Round
Interest areas: Field work, conservation, trail construction, vegetation removal
Stipend: Varies
Partners: Conservation Legacy, Americorps, Colorado Youth Corps, 21st Century Conservation Srevice Corps

Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps

Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps (ALCC) is a program based out of offices in Acoma Pueblo, Navajo Nation, Zuni Pueblo, Hopi-Kykotsmovi, and Albuquerque. The program strives to cultivate a new generation of local land stewards. We partner with tribal communities and land managers to accomplish impactful and lasting conservation service projects. Crews and interns have being working on projects from historical preservation, traditional agriculture, chainsaw crews, hiking clubs, stream restoration, fencing, trail construction, and more. ALCC also aims to incorporate traditional culture and language as part of crew lifestyle and project work.

Who can apply: Native American youth and young adults ages 18-25
Schedules: 10 week commitment, Summer, Year Round
Interest areas: Historic and prehistoric preservation, traditional agriculture, interpretation, conservation, trail construction
Stipend: Varies
Partner: Conservation Legacy, Americorps, 21st Century Conservation Service Corps, Americorps of New Mexico

 

CVA 2022-23 cohort Christine Longenecker surveys her surroundings while pruning the Lonely Dell orchard

NPS

Community Volunteer Ambassadors Program (CVA)

The CVA program combines the strength of a national leader in conservation service with the National Park Service in order to train a diverse group of emerging leaders to assist park units in building lasting connections to local communities.

Who can apply: Recent high school and college graduates
Schedules: February to January and September to August; Full-time, 50 weeks
Interest areas: Volunteer efforts and management, service-learning expansion, group service opportunities coordination
Stipend: Varies depending on housing, number of terms
Partner: Conservation Legacy, Americorps

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NPS Youth Programs has even more internship opportunities here in the Southwest and nationwide.