Social Science Research Professional 1 (Research Assistant) at Stanford University
The Global Policy Lab is seeking a full-time Social Science Researcher 1 (SSRP1) for a period of 12 months to start from summer 2025 at the earliest, with the possibility to extend for another year. The SSRP1 will support and collaborate on a series of new and ongoing projects related to development and the environment, with a particular focus on a unique dataset mapping human development and environmental change across the developing world since the 1940s, derived from recently-digitized historical aerial photographs. The SSRP1 will work closely with an international team of researchers.
Deadline: Rolling

International Rescue Committee Internships (multiple opportunities)
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises, helping to restore health, safety, education, economic wellbeing, and power to people devastated by conflict and disaster. Deadline: Rolling

SPIA in NJ - Undergraduate Internship Opportunities
SPIA in New Jersey has several internship opportunities with local and state organizations. Please use the link above to explore all the different organizations and internships available. Deadline: Rolling

Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy, the State Department has an aggregated website for opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online. Deadline: Varies

MAPIS 2025 - Mid-Atlantic Political Intern Summit
Location: Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
August 4, 2025 @ 8:15am - 3:30pm
This is a free and in-person conference for all summer political interns in New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania. Hosted by the Rowan Institute for Public Policy & Citizenship (RIPPAC). Please use the above link to register.
This event includes:
• Political networking and leadership training
• Breakout panels on politics, careers, and hot issues
• Updates from members of Congress
• Free professional headshot photos
• Free T-shirt
• Free breakfast, lunch and ice cream truck

NJAI Hub - Research Survey
As we work to build a robust AI ecosystem, we’d love to hear from Princeton students about their interests, skills, and the types of opportunities they’d find most valuable. To help us shape future programming, we’ve put together a brief student interest survey.

FedSupport Hub
The FedSupport Hub is a resource for former and current federal employees—a centralized and reliable place where they can find answers to their questions, share critical information and build community. This may be a helpful resource for the alumni you serve working in the federal government. 

Stokes Library - Viz Hub Spring 2025 Workshop Schedule
The Stokes Visualization Hub is a space and service, that responds to the evolving digital research, data visualization, and qualitative analysis needs of the Princeton Students and Faculty, with a focus on SPIA and the related social sciences. Workshops will cover a variety of topics including Zotero, R, Excel, Data Visualization and more. Please visit the website for workshop details and dates.

GoinGlobal
This resource supports international students who are interested in working in the U.S., their home country or elsewhere, as well as U.S. students who want to work abroad. It includes job and internship listings, global resume and cover letter guidance, global key employer directory, country and city guides, global job market trends, work permit regulations and cultural advice. Its Country/City Guides and cultural information might be helpful for those of you who are sending students abroad this summer or post-graduation. GoinGlobal requires students, faculty, and staff to be logged into CAS to access.

Partnership for Public Service
The Partnership for Public Service and Amazon Web Services have collaborated to create this Agency Dashboard, which provides an overview of the workforce, employee experience, budgetary resources and information-technology maturity of 33 major federal agencies, each with more than 1,000 employees. The dashboards offer a snapshot of critical data points that illustrate the organizational health of specific agencies and the executive branch as a whole, helping agency leaders, congressional offices, the media and other stakeholders identify areas for further focus.

Virtual Volunteer Opportunities with the United Nations
For students and alumni who still want to gain experience while they cannot leave home, the UN Online Volunteer Corps may be helpful. Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device. 
More information and how to apply, linked here.

Virtual Student Federal Service
The Virtual Student Federal Service connects the talents of U.S. citizen college students with the needs of federal agencies. Since 2009, more than 10,000 remote interns have advanced the work of the federal government. The time commitment is about 10 hours per week during the school year. There are opportunities for all, from data visualization to political analysis. Internships are paid but may be eligible for course credit. 
More information and how to apply are linked here.

Princeton Experimental Laboratory (PExL) for Social Sciences
PExL is open for registration at pexl.lab.run. Why register? Because your participation will earn you cash (about $25 an hour), because you’ll take part in frontier science, and because you might have fun—most experiments will allow you to strategize in computer-based interactions. If you have any questions, please contact us at pexl@princeton.edu.

USAJOBS Career Explorer
The USAJOBS Career Explorer helps job seekers find occupations in the federal government that align with their career interests. Job seekers answer a series of questions that result in a matched list of federal occupational series. The list offers explanations of jobs in plain language and links to relevant open job announcements. The Career Explorer covers over 300 occupations in the General Schedule and Wage Grade pay scale.  

Early Career Page
The Early Career Page is a central hub of information and resources for students, recent graduates and non-college degree seeking individuals who are early in their career. Information on the page includes the benefits of working for the federal government, tips to navigate the federal application process and best practices for federal resumes. The page also links to the Federal Internship Portal and the Recent Graduate Portal to easily connect page visitors to these early career jobs. 

Federal Internship Finder
This resource—part of GoGovernment.org—houses nearly 1,000 federal opportunities and had nearly 90,000 visits in its first year. We recently added two new search filters to the finder to make this tool even more effective for you and your students.

Practice Foreign Service Officer Test
The State Department offers a practice Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT). The purpose of the practice FSOT is to provide a realistic preview of the computer-based FSOT and an estimate of the likelihood of passing.

Google Interview WarmUp
DYK Google has a tool that lets students practice interview responses, get AI-generated insights into their answers, and get more comfortable interviewing for select fields.

Advice on Quality Letters of Recommendation
Letters of Recommendation provide valuable insights into a candidate. If students are struggling to figure out how to secure the "right" letters, here is a piece I wrote with 5 Tips for a Quality Letter of Recommendation. Printable copy linked here

Unified Site for All State Department Fellowships and Internships
If your students are seeking a substantive internship or fellowship supporting US foreign policy,the State Department has an aggregated website or opportunities. Opportunities are for a wide range of majors (from STEM to social sciences to the arts). They are in person and online.

P*Law Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS)
The P*LAW Undergraduate Scholars (PLUS) program offers Princeton undergraduates opportunities to engage with P*LAW faculty and staff via special programming for law-interested undergraduates. You will also be eligible to receive funding to support participation in legal research.  Students who join the PLUS cohort commit to the following :

• Attending two of P*LAW’s events each academic year
• Participating in a set of pre-law advising panels and lunches
• Enrolling in a PLUS Program Canvas page

To join PLUS, please fill out this form(Link is external). For further information, contact the faculty advisor, Prof. Lynda Dodd (lyndadodd@princeton.edu). To view our PLUS Scholars for 2024-2025, please click here. P*LAW Resources. PLUS October Updates.

This will be updated as scholarship opportunities are presented.