Pittsburgh Summer Internship Program
Information for Students
"I came out of the internship more confident in the kind of future I want to lead once college is over. I am and always will be grateful for my first, and most unique, internship experience and all that I will take from it." – Elizabeth Rodriguez, ‘23
The Pittsburgh Summer Internship Program (PSIP) provides financial support and resources to connect Dietrich College undergraduate students to their first internship experience at a non-profit, start-up or small business in the Pittsburgh area. The program is designed to support students who have limited professional experience by providing assistance with the application process, ongoing career workshops and host sites that offer direct mentorship and supervision.
Students who participate complete 175-200 hours of work at an organization in the Pittsburgh area and receive a $3,300 stipend.
Eligibility
The program is open to any undergraduate student with a primary major or BHA concentration in Dietrich College. Students from any class level are eligible to apply, but preference is given to students who have not yet had a meaningful internship experience.
Past program participants are not eligible to apply. Past participants include those who completed an internship through the program or declined an internship offer. Students who were not accepted or were accepted but did not receive offers are still eligible to apply.
Application Process
Applications for PSIP summer 2025 are closed. Check back in the fall for information about next year's cycle!
If you have any questions, please reach out to Bryce Yoder, experiential learning coordinator, at DietrichExperiential@andrew.tdcpw.com.
Past & Anticipated Internship Opportunities
The projects listed below represent an idea of opportunities for the intern at the site, not everything they will be expected to do. Interns and host sites are encouraged to be flexible in identifying projects that align with professional goals and organizational mission. This list may change and more opportunities may be added.
- Information Systems: database management, website maintenance, design and functionality
- Event Planning: large scale event management, event evaluation and reporting
- Community engagement: outreach efforts, collaborate with educators on school programs
- Data science related: collect, analyze and communicate data from summer program
- Youth/Education related: assist with 5-week camp for youth with immigrant/migrant backgrounds
- Consulting: Market research and trends for entrepreneurship to support Ascender clients
- Technology: Identify ways to use AI and automation to improve business efficiency
- Data Science: utilize data visualization and design storytelling; utilize search queries from Crunchbase to identify fundraising trends and key players
Event Planning Intern
- Event/Project Management: assist with planning large scale event, support recruitment and outreach efforts
- Marketing related: Market and product strategy, customer/partner outreach
- Content Creation: Creating and editing videos and animations, blog posts
- Technology related: implementing and testing SEO and other analytics strategies
- Data science related: analyze and communicate data for a 5-year growth plan
- Information systems related: device testing on location, user experience
- Data science related: analyze data to identify trends and patterns for on-site testing
- Project management related: volunteer events and coordination, large project oversight, direct community engagement around sustainability initiatives
Information Systems Assistant
- Information systems: evaluate and assess technological status of organization
- Develop a system for data collection and documentation
- Enhance organization's website, social media and email system
- Research and Marketing: market research, data entry, communications to help build clientele
- Organizational management related: organizational assessment of policies and HR metrics
- Information systems: database management, website design and maintenance
- Data Science: Data analysis and visualization
Communications Associate Intern
- Business development & writing: creation of a monthly newsletter
- Development of employer partner portfolios
- Creation of profiles for potential institutional giving or private funders and accounts for contract partners
Outreach & Community Engagement Coordinator
- Data analysis: carry out projects to provide insight into efforts to achieve a better quality of life in the Charles Street Valley area
- Community-engaged projects: contribute to ongoing developments for accessible community assets and building generational wealth
- Project and event management: Full arc of public programming - booking, planning, implementing and evaluating
- Non-Profit operations: brand marketing, publicity, non-profit management
- Information systems related: app design, user experience
- Data science related: data management, pattern recognition, data reporting and visualization
- Project and event management: large-scale event, communications
- Data Science: Data analysis, visualization, reporting and storytelling
- Policy related: Advance and support advocacy around environmental justice and land use
Data & Technical Development Intern
- Data analysis & visualization: process and analyze collected data to create visual reports and dashboards to communicate findings
- Business development & strategy: assist with stakeholder engagement and relationship management to support fundraising, sales and strategic planning
- Program growth: research and evaluation of existing nationwide initiatives
- Information systems: build out and create grants management system, information entry
- Data science related: collect, manage, and analyze investment and small business data from Honeycomb’s crowdfunding platform, and create a centralized dashboard for key metrics.
- Data science related: data collection, evaluation of participant experience, data analysis
Student Intern
- Research: conduct research on the history of poetry in Pittsburgh
- Production: help with developing and producing a podcast series
- Marketing: assist with outreach and planning for future events
Farmers Market Program Assistant
- Marketing & support: community outreach and promotional support of Fresh Access and SNAP produce incentives at area farmers markets
- Data analysis: review transaction records and customer surveys for insights
- Project development: help implement a new process for gathering and recording proof of city residence for contract compliance
- Content Creation: increase online engagement with potential customers in anticipation of an upcoming FDA clearance for the ProPatch medical device
- Community engagement related: Event management, outreach and engagement with seniors
- Education related: Facilitate workshops and events for Hill District Early Literacy Initiative
- Project management: program support for Students in Action and ChangeMakers initiatives
- Nonprofit management related: communications, project management, data and analysis, etc.
- Data science: data analysis, predictive modeling, data visualization to market clients to potential teams, aid with consulting arm of business
- Machine Learning: evaluate ML models, develop data pipelines, financial value analysis
- Data science: data analysis related to economic development, data visualization
- Communications: website updates, blog posts, event planning (Summer Music Series)
- Research related: Young children’s knowledge acquisition, review relevant literature, collaborate on developing research methods, and collect data
- Business related: consult with small business owners to create plans, industry research, business acceleration, community reinvestment
- Information systems: evaluation of CRM systems, database entry cleaning, systems improvement
- Data Science: engage in stewardship initiatives to collect data and survey donors
- Data Science related: data analytics, compilation and analysis of historical data, data interpretation
- Marketing related: develop marketing plan/timeline with emphasis on branding and social media
Volunteer and Pathways Specialist
- Programming: research and assist with developing partnerships and resources that enable current program participants and alumni to achieve their educational and career pathway goals
- Alumni & volunteer engagement: develop consistent processes and messaging to engage alumni and community members
- Writing related: writing journalistic articles and supporting reporters
- Data Science related: analyzing publically available data, visualization, fact-checking
- Marketing and Growth related: support audience growth, search engine optimization, social media
Pittsburgh Passport Coordinator
- Programming & events: facilitation and execution of Pittsburgh Passport events, which are designed to provide summer interns, college students and grad students opportunities to explore the city and region
Project and Funding Coordinator Intern
- Research & development: Research and install a new Read, Learn, and Play space, in conjunction with partnering community organizations
- Funding & data: maintain donor database, exporting and organizing the data, drafting a summer appeal letter to funders and coordinating communication
Machine Learning or Data Analysis Intern
- Data analysis: work data collected during spring plastics recycling projects to structure this data, develop machine learning models to optimize operations and/or develop a user-friendly web app and API to help clients
- Process development: provide insights to improve data collection for future pilots and potential implementations
Community Engagement Intern
- Community-engaged projects: collecting and analyzing community needs through assessments and housing-related data
- Sustainability & justice: review ecodistrict-related program areas including housing affordability and anti-displacement efforts, green energy innovations, infrastructure and mobility and more
Historical Researcher
- Research: contribute to the ongoing research and compliation of historical data about Squirrel Hill, working towards publishing blogs and a potential book
- Events: contribute to or attend monthly programming on local history and reconstruction of sites such as the Neill Log House
- Business related: market research, lead generation, team brainstorming
- Information systems related: regular system testing, customer technical support, CRM database management
- Content Creation related: animated educational videos and/or interactive web content
- Youth/Education related: use programming, psychology or writing to build K-12 learning modules
Project Management Intern
- Marketing & development: assist the team with in-kind donations, planning of events, creation and posting of images on social media, and etnering data into donation platform
- Data entry & management: contribute to and oversee projects related to Human Resources processes such as ATS systems
Summer Programs Intern
- Project development: assist in planning and implementing daily summer camp activities, including STEAM projects, arts, sports and educational games; develop and distribute surveys to gather feedback from staff, participants and families on the summer camp experience
- Program delivery: participate in leading special programs like the "Mindful Young Minds" curriculum, fostering social emotional learning (SEL) and resilience; contribute to a comprehensive end-of-summer report with key findings and actionable recommendations for improving next year's programming
- Research and data collection: support EIC programming through research and data collection
- Community engagement related: outreach and relationship building, event planning, grants
- Data science: creation of data collection tools to measure regional impact, analysis, research
- Community engagement related: event planning and management
Dance Africa Intern
- Fundraising & event coordination: assist the team with a signature summer event, Dance Africa Pittsburgh; work on fundraising and sponsorships, support the organization of the African marketplace, as well as promote and market the event
- Data Science related: data collection, cleaning, reporting, validation, dashboard creation
- Technical related: open to machine learning, UX/UI or data analysis intern
- Business related: assist with business growth and promotion of the first product
Web Development Intern
- Accessibility & web development: fix broken links across the sites, implement aria labels across all hyperlinks, re-structure webpages to meet current accessibility guidelines
- SEO enhacement: create and implement alt text for images and videos across sites and write meta descriptions
Special Events Coordinator
- Program delivery: develop an archery program for the summer, including promotions for the program, recuritment of families, etc.
- Community enagagement: intern will also assist in planning, promotion, execution and post-production follow-up for local concerts and special events
Engagement Intern
- Community engagement: assist with researching community events and fundraising efforts, provide support to our Run Series campaign and more
- Program delivery & workforce development: contribute to training for our youth and young adults, with a focus on reversing impacts of climate change and cleaning up the environment; learn about and advocate for policy changes and how to create a workforce that we need for the future
- Data science: Analyze sales and financial data, R based data work, CRM
- Event Management: Event production for Pogopalooza, business strategy, SEO, social media
- Youth/education related: design unique apprenticeships and mentor youth