Opportunities @ the Wilson Center

Employment

The Woodrow Wilson Center is commmitted to attracting and maintaining a high quality, dedicated, and diverse work force.

The Center consists of two separate, but parallel, pay systems (federal and trust). Federal positions are funded by our annual appropriation from the Congress. Trust positions are funded by private donations, grants and gifts. The vacancy announcement number will identify which type of funding supports the position. Announcement numbers ending in "F" are federally funded jobs and those ending in "T" are trust funded jobs.
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Internships

The Center offers a wide range of internship opportunities to current, recent, or returning students. There are at least 80 interns at the Center at any given time. Availability of positions generally corresponds to the beginning of the fall, spring and summer terms. Many interns are research assistants for our visiting scholars, contributing directly to research on a wide range of projects. Other interns work in staff and program offices. Wilson Center interns have the opportunity to develop both research and professional skills, and to participate in the numerous activities and events held at the Center. Most internships are unpaid.
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Fellowships

The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges or provide the historical and/or cultural framework to illumine policy issues of contemporary importance. While the Center does not engage in formulating actual policy, it is particularly interested in those projects that help provide the essential background against which current issues can be more thoroughly understood.
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