Regional Workforce Development Intern: Year Round

Through our Sustainable Communities initiative, SMUD is aligning our programs, goals and investments around supporting healthy, vibrant, and economically sustainable neighborhoods for all customers. By partnering with policy makers, transit leaders, technology companies, health care providers and other community-based organizations, SMUD can maximize its impact and solve real problems for real people.  By leveraging our existing efforts, employees’ skills and expertise and our partnerships across the community, we can maximize our collective impact to help those most in need. 

What the intern will do

• Workforce Development Tracking Spreadsheet: Follow up with Partner Leads to update spreadsheet to show how many people have been trained and hired through their community partners' workforce programs.     
• Workforce Development Summit: Assist in helping in planning a Workforce Development Summit for our community partners who have workforce development programs. 
• Assist with the Career Ambassador Events with in-person attendance, engaging with the public as a representative of SMUD, sharing about training and career opportunities.
• Administrative support for team events and activities around high school career technical education programming and STEM education.
• Data tracking and analysis for Workforce Development Partners.

    
What the intern will learn

• Better understanding of what these leads do and how they work with our community.
• Ability to gather information and create a story to show the impact of the work of our community partners
• Collaboration with another department at SMUD along with external partners.
• Gain a better understanding of Sustainable Communities and how our resources are utilized to help organizations help our community.
• Gain public presentation skills
• Gain program management skills
• Gain analytical skills by analyzing feedback of previous event and coming up with solutions on how to improve our next summit.
• Event planning skills.

This internship is in-person and onsite with a potential option to remote work, as needed.

About SMUD's College Internship Program

SMUD's College Internship Program provides college interns with an opportunity to contribute their skills and knowledge to SMUD while gaining valuable work experience. Workshops and activities will also be part of the program where interns will have the opportunity to be immersed in SMUD's culture and learn leadership skills as well as develop their professional skills.

SMUD was also recognized by Interns 2 Pros for the 2020 Internship Program of The Year Award in recognition of excellence in internship strategy, implementation, and impact and was one of five finalists for the 2023 Internship Program of the Year from Interns 2 Pros along with Paramount, Fox Corporation, Intuit, and Toyota.

Application Deadline: It is guaranteed that the online system will accept applications until 5 PM on the apply by date. It is highly encouraged that applications are submitted well before the due date and time mentioned to make sure that it is submitted successfully.
 
Official SMUD Title: STEM Student Assistant

• Students must be able to commute to the SMUD Offices in Sacramento, CA when requested to come in.
• To have a student position at SMUD, you must not have any relatives working at SMUD.
• Students must be enrolled as a full-time student, complete and pass at least 12 undergraduate units OR 8 graduate units, and receive at least a 2.0 GPA in the Spring Semester of this year.
• Currently, SMUD is not hiring candidates for its student internship positions who require sponsorship from an employer either now or in the future. Such sponsorship is not needed for citizens, a U.S. National, a permanent resident, or one granted refuge or asylum status by the U.S. government. Visa holders typically require sponsorship in one form or another at some point in time.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are a part of who we are and how we do things. Supporting efforts that promote pay equality is part of that. Salary placement for the selected candidate will be determined in alignment with the California Equal Pay Act or the applicable MOU. Determination for salary placement of internal candidates will be made without respect to current classification or compensation, and will be based upon the candidate's qualifications as compared to those performing substantially similar work. In the event there is a guaranteed pay progression outlined in an applicable MOU, the MOU takes precedence.   

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