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Below is a list of the available paid internship positions. The positions are listed by department, the departments are in alphabetical order, and the positions are subject to change. While department and assignment preferences are taken into consideration, participants are not guaranteed their preferred department or assignment(s).
Clerk of Court
- Job Title: Deputy Clerk Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists clerks with inventorying files, creating file indexes, organizing existing data, observing court and Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners meetings.
Communications
- Job Title: Multimedia & Video Production/Media Relations Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists the County’s Multimedia & Video Production and Media Relations Teams with County press releases, script writing for the on-camera news series Eye on Gwinnett, and video production. Assists with commission meetings, contacting media contacts, County news report clippings, and more.
- Job Title: PR & Marketing Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists Public Relations & Marketing Team with developing and distributing communications on behalf of Gwinnett County. Tasks may include writing articles and newsletters, taking photos, developing social media posts, and brainstorming campaign strategies.
- Job Title: Community Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: The Outreach Intern will assist with the County’s signature outreach programs: the Gwinnett 101 Citizens Academy and the Gwinnett Youth Commission.
Community Services
- Job Title: Health and Human Services - Centers/Programs Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assists in partnering with the community to provide families and individuals with services from GSSC to improve their health and wellbeing.
- Job Title: Health and Human Services – Centers Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Centers Intern: Assists in partnering with the community to provide senior citizens with opportunities to participate in quality services within our senior center to improve their health and wellbeing
- Job Title: Health and Human Services - Centers/ OS4H Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assists in partnering with community navigators to help residents find valuable resources and overcome the adversities faced.
- Job Title: Agriculture & Natural Resources Intern (ANR)
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in Agriculture and Natural Resources. This position is ideal for those interested in gardening, landscaping, natural resources, and the environment.
- Job Title: 4-H Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in the area of 4-H Youth Development. This position is ideal for those interested in education, youth development for grades K-12, STEM, outdoor education, and healthy living.
- Job Title: Family And Consumer Sciences Intern (FACS)
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in the area of Family and Consumer Sciences. This position is ideal for those interested in healthy living, nutrition, disease prevention, working with youth, parents, and senior residents.
- Job Title: BOOST/Camp Programming Assistance Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Collaborates with community partners and assists in the development of early learning, K-12 programming, and out-of-school time activities.
- Job Title: Engagement Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Implements strategic initiatives to serve Gwinnett’s multi-generational and multicultural communities. Assists in engaging residents through multi-media platforms, such as copy/content creation, graphic design/marketing materials, event promotions through resident engagement, and photography.
- Job Title: Live Healthy Gwinnett Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Interns will gain first-hand experience in the roles Live Healthy Gwinnett plays within County Government, the community, and partner initiatives by encouraging residents to Be Active, Eat Healthy, Get Checked, and Be Positive. Interns will assist with setting-up mobile recreation games and will co-facilitate a mobile kitchen program during their time with Live Healthy Gwinnett
- Job Title: Volunteer Gwinnett Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: As a student intern, you will assume a pivotal role in supporting the Counties' volunteer program. This internship presents a distinctive opportunity for you to immerse yourself in hands-on experiences encompassing community outreach, event coordination, and volunteer management within a vibrant and influential organization.
- Job Title: Cultural and Historic Interpretive Resources Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Interns will become familiar with the day-to-day operation of a historic site. Provide basic tours of Lawrenceville Female Seminary and assist with historic research, oral histories and artifact management.
- Job Title: Animal Welfare Operations and Administration
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: By assisting the Office and Customer Service Coordinator, intern will be responsible for answering and directing phone calls, assist in daily opening procedures for animal adoptions, including not limited to filing, assist with office supply inventory, barking dog and leash law complaints received from citizens and general admin support.
- Job Title: Animal Shelter Medicine Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: By assisting the Intake and Medical Manager, intern will learn to evaluate an assess animal behavioral and health issues, including infectious diseases, accurately record data and information, report health or behavior abnormalities and stocking and inventory audits of medical supplies.
- Job Title: Animal Welfare Summer Camp Staff and Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: By assisting the Outreach and Volunteer Resource Coordinator, intern will learn responsibilities of coordinating events, maintaining volunteer programs, all aspects of volunteer management in addition to assisting with the two-week Summer Ambassador Camp, including leading sessions, learning about safety operations and summer camp logistics.
- Job Title: POC Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Drawing scanning and GIS data, Collect missing attribute data and taking updated pictures of assets.
- Job Title: Summer Meal Program Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Students will assist in handing out summer meals to patrons, tracking distribution of meals and reporting daily results to supervisors. Students will set up and break down daily distribution sites, including all signage and equipment.
Corrections
- Job Title: Business Associate Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assist Business Manager with day-to-day tasks to include tracking expenditures on Excel spreadsheet; reviewing inmate medical claims and preparing reimbursement requests; researching documentation for ACA files; and generating budget reports using SAP System.
County Administration
- Job Title: Internal Audit Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Internal Audit Intern will assist with research and preliminary information gathering for audits during the planning stage. The Internal Audit Intern will review draft deliverables as part of our Quality Assurance process, evaluating clarity and flow, and tracing audit findings to supporting documentation to confirm accuracy and sufficient evidence. The Internal Audit Intern may also help to organize prior audit files to align with standards. The internship will also include opportunities to learn more about the auditing profession as a potential career choice. The Intern will be provided with information about auditing best practices derived from organizations such as the ACFE, IIA, and ISACA.
- Job Title: Operational Excellence Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Description: The Operational Excellence Intern will support the Office of Strategic Excellence (OSE) with data visualization tasks, project management and administrative duties associated with the resolution of the various Operational Performance Assessment (OPA) recommendations. The interns will work directly with OSE and OPA category members researching best practices, information gathering, documentation updates, conducting department interviews, note taking and analyzing system dashboards. This internship will provide many opportunities to expand on data visualization experience, develop project management skills and improve familiarity of many Microsoft tools.
District Attorney’s Office
- Job Title: Legal Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by various teams and divisions. Works closely with the Outreach team to conduct research and enter data. Assists with summer programs, such as the Junior DA and Investigator Mentorship programs. Operates switchboard and phones as needed.
Elections
- Job Title: Administrative Assistant Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with various business and human resources related tasks. Intern may also be assigned to prepare, sorting, receiving, and distributing mail and maintaining paper and electronic logs, forms, files, and other documents.
- Job Title: Outreach Assistant Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Attends community outreach events and answers phone calls and questions from the public. Register voters and conduct website audits for updates.
Financial Services
- Job Title: Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Uses coding, visual analysis, and web content creation skills. Validates delinquent accounts, reviews accounts to validate tax situs, cross references data to eliminate duplicate accounts. Scan documents and sort incoming correspondence to be routed to proper workflows and data entry.
Fire and Emergency Services
- Job Title: Fire Inspector Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Attends a variety of fire inspections to learn about compliance with state and local mandates.
- Job Title: Fire Educator Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists the Community Risk Reduction Section’s Fire Education staff with providing fire and life safety educational programs and services to Gwinnett County residents.
- Job Title: Training Academy Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with various administrative tasks at the Training Academy related to onboarding, certification tracking, database updates, and composing various lessons and events.
Human Resources
- Job Title: Benefits Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: The Benefits Intern will support several HR divisions including Benefits Administration, Retirement, Wellness Programming, Human Resource Information System (HRIS) maintenance and data integrity, and HR process implementation and support.
- Job Title: Fiscal & Administration Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: This intern will be shadowing our Fiscal and Administration team. Job duties include assisting with front desk duties, including call center, distributing mail, organization of files, updating SAVE program postings and assist with vendor benefits check points.
- Job Title: HR Operations Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by the HR Operations Division including but not limited to verifying and entering data, operating phones, scanning, and filing documents, other miscellaneous tasks.
- Job Title: HRIS Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: This intern will be shadowing our HRIS team. Interns will be exposed to Microsoft Excel on-the-job training, along with participating with department meetings, administrative task such as checking scanned documents and shredding outdated documents.
Information Technology Services
- Job Title: Information Technology Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Provides technical support to County employees for computer systems and troubleshoots issues end users encounter.
Juvenile Court
- Job Title: Personal Staff Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Intern will observe and/or assist the divisions within Juvenile Court, including the Intake Division, Treatment Court, and Judge's personal staff. The Intern will work closely with the administrative staff as they ensure the efficient and effective operations of the court. The Intern may also get the opportunity to observe and/or assist other courts and programs within the Judiciary.
- Job Title: Administrative and Special Courts Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Intern will observe and/or assist the divisions within Juvenile Court, including the Intake Division, Treatment Court, and Judge's personal staff. The Intern will work closely with the administrative staff as they ensure the efficient and effective operations of the court. The Intern may also get the opportunity to observe and/or assist other courts and programs within the Judiciary.
Law Department
- Job Title: Legal Intern
Age Requirement: 20+
Description: The administrative legal intern with the Law Department, you will gain exceptional legal experience by learning about the role our department plays in enabling Gwinnett County, its officials, and employees to accomplish their goals and priorities. The intern will perform basic administrative duties such as organizing files, scanning documents, making copies, and answering phone calls. The Intern may also attend meetings and hearings, review files, update trial notebooks, and perform research.
Planning & Development
- Job Title: Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Works alongside professionals in code enforcement, customer service, building inspections and building plan review, development inspections, and development plan review. Assists with current and long-range planning concerning land development, and gains insight for housing and community development initiatives.
Police Department
- Job Title: Police Officer Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Works in the Uniform Division and observes how Gwinnett County Police Department Officers go through their daily duties handling calls for service.
Probate
- Job Title: Probate Court Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The intern is introduced to all aspects of the Probate Court. They will assist in the estate office where wills, guardianship and conservatorship cases are filed. They will work in the vital records and licensing office to see how birth certificates, marriage licenses, and weapon carry licenses are issued.
Support Services
- Job Title: Assistant Project Coordinator
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Works alongside the Office Manager to help manage event planning and assist with asset management.
- Job Title: Community Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Recycling Education and Outreach Intern will assist in recycling education and outreach to Gwinnett County residents. Assist the Project Coordinator with related recycling projects.
- Job Title: Records Assistant
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Records Assistant will assist the Records Program Analyst with collecting, processing, and satisfying daily records requests.
- Job Title: Trades Assistant
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Rotates throughout the division, learning building operations, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and contract management.
Transportation
- Job Title: Financial Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Financial assistant internship will assist with data entry, filing, and special projects related to budget review and records management.
- Job Title: HR and Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assist receptionist staff with citizens, records management, and various administrative related projects.
- Job Title: Traffic Safety Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Works with Transportation Traffic Safety staff to create geographic information systems, or GIS, maps. Assists with database and asset management of the speed humps, radars, and streetlights around the County.
Water Resources
- Job Title: Engineering Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Intern will collect field samples, input data, analyze data, review plans, update reports, and update PowerPoint presentations for the department.
- Job Title: Warehouse Technician Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Intern will process orders, restock shelves, receive orders and conduct basic housekeeping within the organization.
- Job Title: Business Services Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Intern will assist the Business Services team with various HR related tasks including but not limited to: Internal communication with employees and various levels of the organization, external communication with various departments, contacting candidates to schedule interviews and/or contacting employees to schedule training courses, scheduling room location for interviews and training, assist employees and managers with various HR and Training requests, contact managers to follow-up on paperwork, training courses, etc, assist in employee engagement activities, writing emails.
