The Carter Center Internship Program

The Carter Center is committed to waging peace, building hope, and fighting disease, and interns have the opportunity to work for Carter Center programs that contribute to this mission. Carter Center interns make vital contributions to the Center''s work. In turn, The Carter Center provides a substantive learning experience that serves as a basis for interns to explore their career options and to develop professional skills. Internships are offered during three sessions per year to undergraduate juniors and seniors, graduate students, and recent graduates (graduated in the past 24 months). Prospective interns are those who have demonstrated superior academic ability and who have coursework, professional or personal experience, and career interests related to Carter Center programs. Interns are required to commit a minimum of 20 hours per week, although many choose to work up to 40 hours a week.

Our interns and graduate assistants provide a tremendous source of support to the Carter Center''s peace programs, health programs, as well as the operation division of the Center. Students have the opportunity to intern in the following areas: Americas Program (AP), Democracy Program (DP), Conflict Resolution Program (CRP), Human Rights Program (HR), China Program (CP), Education Program (EDU), Global 2000 (G2000), Development (DEV), Art Services (ART), Finance (FIN), Research (RES), Special Events (SE), Public Information (PI), or the Mental Health Program (MH). The internship program focuses on providing interns with a substantive work experience and strictly enforces the policy of ensuring that less than 30 percent of their internship role is focused on administrative tasks. As such, interns are an integral part of the regular programmatic and operational activity of the institution: organizing conferences, preparing briefing materials for meetings, drafting memoranda and reports, attending meetings, and experiencing ''hands on'' Center activities in the field, such as international election monitoring. The goal of the internship program is to advance a committed, informed, and skilled workforce serving peace, health, and development needs around the world. 

Graduate Assistantship Program (summer session only)

The Carter Center Graduate Assistantship Program offers a limited number of stipends to currently enrolled graduate and professional students who have completed at least one year of graduate study. The stipend is $3,500 for a 10-week, 40-hour-per-week term.