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The positions are listed by department in alphabetical order and can be subject to change. While department and assignment preferences will be taken into consideration, participants are not guaranteed their preferred department or assignment(s).
Communications
- Job Title: Multimedia and Video Production
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with County press releases, script writing for the on-camera news series Eye on Gwinnett, and video production. Assists with commission meetings, contacting media contacts, County news report clippings, and more. - Job Title: Public Relations and Marketing Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with developing and distributing communications on behalf of the County. Tasks may include writing articles and newsletters, taking photos, developing social media posts, and brainstorming campaign strategies. - Job Title: Administrative/Customer Service Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assist with coordinating and conducting HR training on behalf of the Fiscal and Administration Division. Make meaningful connections with staff from all divisions. Greet and direct guests at the reception area by using interpersonal and customer service skills. - Job Title: Branding and Design Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Creates branded print and digital design materials using Adobe Creative Suite and Microsoft Office Suite programs and stays up to date on those programs and design trends. Maintains brand identity and consistent visual messaging across all communications and marketing channels, including digital and print. Collaborates with a team of senior graphic designers, web designers, video producers, and public relations and marketing professionals to ensure understanding and execution of design needs and requirements. Shoots and edits photos to meet brand standards.
Community Services
- Job Title: Animal Welfare Operations and Administration
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assisting the Office and Customer Service Coordinator, intern will be responsible for answering and directing phone calls, assist in daily opening procedures for animal adoptions, including not limited to filing, assist with office supply inventory, barking dog and leash law complaints received from citizens and general administration support. - Job Title: Animal Welfare Summer Camp Staff and Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assisting the Outreach and Volunteer Resource Coordinator, intern will learn responsibilities of coordinating events, maintaining volunteer programs, all aspects of volunteer management in addition to assisting with the two-week Summer Ambassador Camp, including leading sessions, learning about safety operations and summer camp logistics. - Job Title: Camp Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Interns will have a well-rounded recreation experience with a variety of duties, including helping with summer camp, summer meals, clerical work, and program assistance. - Job Title: Cultural and Historic Interpretive Resources Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Interns will become familiar with the day-to-day operation of a historic site. Provide basic tours of Lawrenceville Female Seminary and assist with historic research, oral histories and artifact management. - Job Title: Engagement Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Implements strategic initiatives to serve Gwinnett’s multi-generational and multicultural communities. Assists in engaging residents through multi-media platforms, such as copy/content creation, graphic design/marketing materials, event promotions through resident engagement, and photography. - Job Title: Health and Human Services Center Programs Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assist in partnering with the community to provide senior citizens with opportunities to participate in quality services within our senior center to improve their health and well-being. - Job Title: Health and Human Services Programs Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Background Check Required: Yes
Description: Assist in partnering with the community to provide families and individuals with services from Gwinnett Senior Services Center to improve their health and well-being. - Job Title: Live Healthy Gwinnett Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Interns will gain first-hand experience in the roles Live Healthy Gwinnett plays within the County, the community, and partner initiatives by encouraging residents to be active, eat healthy, get checked, and be positive. Interns will assist with setting up mobile recreation games and will co-facilitate a mobile kitchen program during their time with Live Healthy Gwinnett. - Job Title: UGA Extension - 4-H Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in 4-H Youth Development. This position is ideal for those interested in education, youth development for grades K-12, STEM, outdoor education, and healthy living. - Job Title: UGA Extension - Agriculture and Natural Resources Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in agriculture and natural resources. This position is ideal for those interested in gardening, landscaping, natural resources, and the environment. - Job Title: UGA Extension - Family And Consumer Sciences Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Providing an opportunity to gain knowledge and skills with program development and delivery in family and consumer sciences. This position is ideal for those interested in healthy living, nutrition, disease prevention, working with youth, parents, and senior residents. - Job Title: Volunteer Gwinnett Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: As a student intern, you will assume a pivotal role in supporting the County's volunteer program. This internship presents a distinctive opportunity for you to immerse yourself in hands-on experiences encompassing community outreach, event coordination, and volunteer management within a vibrant and influential organization.
Corrections
- Job Title: Business Associate Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assisting Business Manager with day-to-day tasks to include tracking expenditures, reviewing budget requests, updating information in Microsoft Excel, researching information for special projects, and generating budget reports using SAP System.
County Administration
- Job Title: Internal Audit Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Internal Audit Intern will assist with research and preliminary information gathering for audits during the planning stage. They will review draft deliverables as part of our Quality Assurance process, evaluating clarity and flow, and tracing audit findings to supporting documentation to confirm accuracy and sufficient evidence. They may also help to organize prior audit files to align with standards. The internship will also include opportunities to learn more about the auditing profession as a potential career choice. The intern will be provided with information about auditing best practices derived from organizations, such as the ACFE, IIA, and ISACA. - Job Title: Elections Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Attends community outreach events and answers phone calls and questions from the public. Register voters and conduct website audits for updates. - Job Title: Elections Reception Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Assists with various business and human resources related tasks. Intern may also be assigned to prepare, sorting, receiving, and distributing mail and maintaining paper and electronic logs, forms, files, and other documents. - Job Title: Operational Excellence Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Operational Excellence Intern will support the Office of Strategic Excellence (OSE) with data analytics and visualization tasks, project and change management, and administrative duties associated with the resolution of the various Operational Performance Assessment (OPA) recommendations. The interns will work directly with OSE and OPA category members researching best practices, information gathering, documentation updates, conducting department interviews, note taking, and analyzing system dashboards. This internship will provide many opportunities to expand on data visualization experience, develop project management skills and improve familiarity with many Microsoft tools.
District Attorney’s Office
- Job Title: Legal Intern
Age Requirement: 17-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by various teams and divisions. Works closely with the Outreach team to conduct research and enter data. Assists with summer programs, such as the Junior DA and Investigator Mentorship programs. Operates switchboard and phones as needed.
Financial Services
- Job Title: Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Uses coding, visual analysis, and web content creation skills. Validates delinquent accounts, reviews accounts to validate tax situs, cross references data to eliminate duplicate accounts. Scan documents and sort incoming correspondence to be routed to proper workflows and data entry.
Fire and Emergency Services
- Job Title: Fire Inspector Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Attends a variety of fire inspections to learn about compliance with state and local mandates. - Job Title: Fire Administrative Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with various administrative tasks at Fire Headquarters related to digitization, certification tracking, database updates, and composing various projects for events. - Job Title: Fire Educator Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists the Community Risk Reduction Section’s Fire Education staff with providing fire and life safety educational programs and services to Gwinnett residents.
Human Resources
- Job Title: Total Rewards Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by the various divisions including but not limited to verifying and entering data, operating phones, scanning, and filing documents, other miscellaneous tasks. - Job Title: Workforce Administration/Fiscal & Administration
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by the various divisions including but not limited to verifying and entering data, operating phones, scanning, filing documents, distributing mail, and other miscellaneous tasks. - Job Title: Operations Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with tasks set by the various divisions including but not limited to verifying and entering data, operating phones, scanning, and filing documents, other miscellaneous tasks
Information Technology Services
- Job Title: IT Administrative Associate
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assist by providing front desk and reception coverage. This role will also include greeting and assisting guests, answering and directing phone calls, and maintaining a welcoming and organized reception area. Additional responsibilities include performing various administrative tasks as assigned. They gain hands-on experience in essential workplace functions while developing transferable skills. - Job Title: IT Associate Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assists with daily operations, including troubleshooting hardware and software issues, maintaining systems and networks, providing technical support to staff, and assisting with the setup of new equipment. They gain hands-on experience in managing IT infrastructure and supporting various technology-related tasks. This role is ideal for someone looking to build their technical skills and knowledge in a professional environment.
Law Department
- Job Title: Administrative Youth Intern
Age Requirement: 20+
Description: The administrative legal intern will gain exceptional legal experience by learning about the role the department plays in enabling the County, its officials, and employees to accomplish their goals and priorities. The intern will perform basic administrative duties, such as organizing files, scanning documents, making copies, and answering phone calls. The intern may also attend meetings and hearings, review files, update trial notebooks, and perform research.
Parks & Recreation
- Job Title: Recreation Center Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Interns will have a well-rounded recreation experience with a variety of duties, including helping with summer camp, summer meals, clerical work, and program assistance. - Job Title: Skills Trade Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Work with one of our trades teams (carpentry, electrical, plumbing) or our Asset Management Team.
Planning & Development
- Job Title: Economic Development Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Works alongside professionals in code enforcement, customer service, building inspections and building plan review, development inspections, and development plan review. Assists with current and long-range planning concerning land development, and gains insight for housing and community development initiatives.
Police Department
- Job Title: Police Officer Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Works in the Uniform Division and observes how Gwinnett Police Officers go through their daily duties handling calls for service.
Probate Court
- Job Title: Probate Court Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The intern is introduced to all aspects of the Gwinnett Probate Court. They will assist in the estate office where wills, guardianship and conservatorship cases are filed. They will work in the vital records and licensing office to see how birth certificates, marriage licenses, and weapon carry licenses are issued.
Sheriff's Office
- Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Administration Bureau
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observe how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the Jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Administration Support
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observes how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Court Operations
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observes how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Field Operations
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observes how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Jail Operations
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observe how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Operations Bureau
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observes how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations. - Job Title: Administration Support Associate - Support Operations
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Intern will be assigned to any of the five divisions or two bureaus to observes how Gwinnett Sheriff’s Office go through their daily duties handling various aspects that support the jail or court operations.
Support Services
- Job Title: Community Outreach Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Recycling Education and Outreach Intern will assist in recycling education and outreach to Gwinnett residents. Assist the Project Coordinator with related recycling projects. - Job Title: GIS Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assist with compiling site and building data for integration into the asset management system. Duties include but are not limited to creating and editing feature classes in a County property geodatabase. Intern will learn to draw, edit, and measure polygon, point, and/or line features, edit fields in feature attribute tables, perform field calculations, perform quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) for data and map symbology. - Job Title: Records Assistant Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: The Records Assistant will assist the Records Program Analyst with collecting, processing, and satisfying daily records requests. - Job Title: Trades Assistant Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Rotates throughout the division, learning building operations, including HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and contract management.
Transportation
- Job Title: Administrative Assistant Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Assist the administrative team and training team with various office duties, such as data analysis, data entry, records management, and other related tasks. - Job Title: Construction Management
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Intern will assist with project management and engineering assignments related to construction projects, which includes plan review, program management data analysis, and construction site visits. - Job Title: Roadway Maintenance Analyst Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Intern will shadow managers in a variety of roadway maintenance tasks, such as quality control inspections of pavement, installation of guardrails, roadway repairs, and right of way management. This job will also include research and data compilation of maintenance records. - Job Title: Traffic Analyst Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Works with Transportation Traffic Safety staff to create geographic information systems, or GIS, maps. Assists with database and asset management of the speed humps, radars, and streetlights around the County.
Tax Commissioner
- Job Title: Public Relations and Marketing Intern
Age Requirement: 15-21
Description: Assists with developing and distributing communications on behalf of the Tax Commissioner’s office.Tasks include making copies, proofing press releases and other copy, copyediting, taking photos, developing social media posts, and brainstorming campaign strategies. Other administrative tasks as needed, which may include collating and distributing copies. Attend some community engagement events when possible.
Water Resources
- Job Title: Trades Tech Intern
Age Requirement: 18-21
Description: Assisting with preventive maintenance around Lanier and Shoal Creek Filter Plants. Greasing motors and changing pumps’ oil; will also introduce them to instrumentation side of things. - Job Title: Warehouse Technician Intern
Age Requirement: 16-21
Description: Intern will process orders, restock shelves, receive orders and conduct basic housekeeping within the organization.