Undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to apply for the American Red Cross Presidential Internship Program: the only paid, summer internship program offered at the American Red Cross. With over 35 professional internships at our National Headquarters and salaries ranging from $440-800/week, the Presidential Internship Program is one of the premier internship programs in the United States. Some the perks for 2008 Presidential Interns include:
• A roundtable discussion with the Red Cross President and CEO.
• Brown-bag lunches and meetings with senior leadership and executives.
• Housing offered at special rates in nearby George Washington University Campus apartments.
• Opportunities to travel to national conferences and areas stricken by disaster.
• Information provided to you about Washington, D.C. networking events.
• A career development forum with professionals from the Red Cross and for-profit companies.
• An employee badge that allows unlimited access to employee lounges and a fitness center.
Open positions may be found by going to
www.redcross.org, clicking on jobs, followed by search openings, and then under the area of interest clicking “internships”. For more information about this year’s program you may visit the program’s external website at www.redcross.org/presidentialinternship . Please feel free to use the Presidential Internship Program Flyer to share news of the program with your chapter members.
There are a number of simple step by step instructions that you need to follow for each Presidential Internship job that you select from a list to submit your cover letter/resume. American Red Cross at 202-303-5551 is manned 24 hours a day. You may have to leave a message for someone to get back to you to walk you through the steps. I have provided some detail steps for your convenience below.
Go to:
www.redcross.org/presidentialinternshipclick on jobs either at the top of the page or next to Presidential Interns.
scroll down and click on
Search Openings: View all current openings or search on specific criteria to find jobs that match your interests. You will be asked to log in if you choose to submit to any of our vacancies.
click,
scroll down on same page
leave All next to state
leave All next to country
at area of interest, scroll down to internship, then
scroll down to search, click which
takes you to jobs available and where
a number of Presidential Intern jobs are listed
with different areas of interested. I selected the area
of Program Management for a simple to walk you through.
Note if you are looking for other jobs you can follow the instructions below search on the same page.
On the page with jobs available listed scroll down to
your job # section and click on it like I did on job # 6446BR, Presidential Management Internship, Program Management, click on job # 6446BR,
click on submit job,
click yes under Security Information,
enter your e-mail address,
enter your password,
click yes under Security Information,
enter or paste the text of our cover letter
from here on you fellow the instructions according to your personal history and college works.... until you receive confirmation of your submission of the specific Presidential Internship job that you applied for and a note asking you to please print this email as confirmation of your resume submission.
