Baltimore City Internship Opportunities: A Comprehensive Guide

Baltimore City offers a diverse range of internship opportunities across various sectors, providing invaluable experiences for students and recent graduates. These internships serve as a bridge between academic knowledge and practical application, fostering professional development and contributing to the city's growth. From arts and culture to public health and government, Baltimore's internships cater to a wide array of interests and career aspirations.

Arts and Culture Internships

The Walters Art Museum

The Walters Art Museum values creating opportunities for research and mentoring future leaders in the museum field, both of which are critical to the realization of their institutional mission. The Walters offers several paid fellowship and internship opportunities designed to provide substantive understanding of the museum profession and contribute to the work of the museum.

Summer Internships: The Walters offers 10-week full-time, paid summer internships every year to undergraduate and graduate students or recent undergraduate degree recipients (within two years of graduation date) in a variety of departments in the museum. Past internships have included positions in Audience Evaluation, Collections Management, Conservation, Curatorial, Graphic Design, and Library/Archives. College students 18 years of age and older who live in Baltimore or attend a Baltimore City or Baltimore County college or university are eligible to apply.

The Carol Bates Fellowship: The Carol Bates Fellowship is an annual eight-month, 30 hour per week position that researches and supports learning and community engagement programs, audience engagement, and/or evaluation practices at the Walters Art Museum. Fellows develop professional skills in museum audience engagement while working on a long-term project and learning about museum education and evaluation practices. Examples of past projects include developing a pilot gallery drawing program, researching and writing curricular resources for K-12 school groups, and working on a new standardized process for visitor interviews.

The Robert and Nancy Hall Fellowship Program: The Robert and Nancy Hall Fellowship Program provides undergraduate and graduate students at Johns Hopkins University with the opportunity to gain substantive understanding of the museum profession and to contribute to the work of the Walters. The program is intended for students to work on one or more projects in the Curatorial department. Successful candidates will work closely with a curator or another appropriate staff member as their mentor and supervisor. Two opportunities are awarded each year: one to an undergraduate student for a three-month internship in the summer, and one to a graduate student for a nine-month, 10 hour per week fellowship during the academic year. Applicants must be currently enrolled full-time in either the undergraduate or graduate programs at the Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University. Students must have some background in art history.

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The Krieger / Walters Curatorial Fellowship: The Krieger / Walters Curatorial Fellowship is designed to provide museum and curatorial training for advanced graduate students (PhD candidates) in the Department of the History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. The fellowship supports half-time work on the fellow’s dissertation and half-time work as a curatorial assistant for a two-year period.

The Andrew W. Mellon and Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships: The Andrew W. Mellon and Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowships are designed for outstanding scholars who have recently finished their PhD and wish to pursue a curatorial career in the art museum field. These fellows will be fully integrated into the daily working environment of the Curatorial department and will work closely with an individual curator. The fellows will also have the opportunity to work with conservators and museum educators in service of the museum and its mission. The fellows will divide their time between specific research projects (two-fifths) and more general curatorial work (three-fifths). General curatorial activities include research on the collection, work on the display of the collection and its publication in print or online, and participation in special exhibition projects. Fellows also participate in the museum’s public programs, such as delivering talks or leading gallery tours.

The Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training in Conservation Fellowship: The Andrew W. Mellon Advanced Training in Conservation Fellowship is a two-year fellowship providing in-depth training and research opportunities to a recent graduate of a conservation training program. The fellow is integrated into the Department of Conservation, Collections, and Technical Research, a dynamic team of museum professionals with a shared focus on the preservation, study, and installation of the Walters collection. They work as a full member of an active lab that focuses on treatment, research, preventative care, and public outreach with a commitment to participation in professional activities.

Graduate Internship in Conservation: A Graduate Internship in Conservation is available annually to a student currently enrolled in a graduate-level training program. This full year internship offers advanced training in conservation in collaboration with university programs that require off-campus training as part of their degree programs. Interns learn in an active conservation lab that focuses on examination, treatment, research, preventive care, and public outreach. They gain an understanding of conservation’s role in a dynamic team of museum professionals with a shared focus on the preservation, study, and installation of the Walters collection.

East Baltimore Historical Library: The Podcast Intern will produce podcasts that promote the East Baltimore Historical Library's mission.

Public Health Internships

Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD)

The Baltimore City Health Department (BCHD) is committed to improving the health and well-being of Baltimore residents. They believe in training future public health leaders and have developed an internship program that will provide opportunities for rising public health professionals and contribute to their many operations. The BCHD receives many requests from area students to spend time at BCHD learning more about their scope of services, observing their programs, and contributing to goals such as reducing infant mortality, eliminating overdose deaths, increasing access to HIV testing, and tracing the source of disease outbreaks.

Internship Program Structure: The BCHD Internship Program operates generally on three terms: winter/spring, summer, and fall; this is to accommodate a wide variety of school schedules (quarters, trimesters, or semesters). There will be an orientation near the beginning of each term and potentially an opportunity to present your work near the end of your internship placement. In addition to official internship projects, BCHD also provides professional development opportunities during which you will have an opportunity to interact with public health leaders throughout the department.

Internship Details: BCHD internships are unpaid. They can accommodate students who are paid by fellowships through their universities or external foundations, but they are unable to provide funding for their internships. Though full-time internship placements (40 hours/week) are preferred, they recognize that many students have limited availability during their time in school. At a minimum, they request interns be able to devote at least 10 hours to the internship each week.

Application Process: Applicants should familiarize themselves with the BCHD Organizational Chart and Current Internship Opportunities to get an idea of the current projects they are recruiting for, their scope of services, and leadership within various divisions. Applicants should identify their goals and availability for an internship by answering the following questions:

What areas within the Health Department are of the most interest to you? How does this align with your broader professional goals?
How much time do you have to devote to working with the Health Department?
When are you available (school term and days per week)? Tentative Timeline: Winter/Spring: January-April, Summer: May-August, Fall: September-December

Once applicants have answered these questions, they should write a cover letter about their interests in public health and how an internship with the Baltimore City Health Department would impact their professional goals. If interested in a particular position from their Current Internship Opportunities, applicants should indicate this in their cover letter. If interested in areas that are not currently in their Current Internship Opportunities, applicants should include the areas/divisions/programs they are most interested in working with based on the BCHD Organizational Chart.

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Government and Public Service Internships

Academic Internship Program (ACIP)

The Academic Internship Program (ACIP) offers a unique opportunity for participants to gain professional experience, build skills through practical application, and obtain educational credits to be applied towards their major or minor at their academic institution. Interns will work on projects that are social-impact focused, and the primary goal of the internship is to offer young professionals interested in public service an opportunity to expand their networks and gain exposure to careers in local government. This is a 12-week, unpaid internship that provides current students with an opportunity to work directly with the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and receive academic credits for their academic institution. Interested candidates are encouraged to select specific focus area of interest for best placement.

Maryland State Agencies

Students and Maryland citizens can find information on internships in Maryland State Agencies. These internships may be paid or unpaid, and for credit or noncredit. Approved internships can easily be arranged through most educational institutions.

Department of Budget and Management (DBM): The UMBC Maryland Public Service Scholars Program pairs interns with the Legislative Services and Special Projects Unit, where they actively work on apprenticeship pipelines and materials to support apprenticeship success. Through this experience, interns gain invaluable experience in data analysis, research, and professional communication. Interns make vast connections and gain insight into state operations, grow their network, and learn from people with all kinds of positions and backgrounds.

City of Baltimore - Department of Planning

The City of Baltimore government is an Equal Opportunity Employer and their people are their most important asset. In the Department of Planning, most of the positions are Civil Service positions classified as a City Planner I, City Planner II, or City Planner Supervisor. The Department also has support positions including: Human Resources, Fiscal Administration, and Office Support Specialists. This position will also be deeply involved with their new conservation district program, which will include community outreach, historical research, writing district designations, and developing policies and guidelines.

How to Apply: For open positions, applicants must apply via the Workday link. The link will prompt applicants to create a Workday profile. Existing City of Baltimore applicants should not create a new profile, but follow the “Internal Applicant” job aid to apply to the position of interest.

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