At some point, your ambition or a program that you are enrolled in might lead to pursuing an internship in local government management. Fortunately, when you decide the time is right to take on an internship, you won’t need to look any further than the Knowledge Network to find the resources that you need to get prepared.

• Find Internships & Fellowships page features an interactive map that shows local government internship postings all around the world.
• Internship topic page is where you can find articles, blog posts, questions and answers, documents, and groups that are tagged as being related to internships.
• “Local Government Interns Blog About Making a Difference” is where you can read the experiences of participants in the 2007 Local Government Management Internship program and get help preparing for your own internship.

For those of you interested in hosting an intern, you can read ICMA’s “Internship Toolkit” to get a sense of standard internship structures. Not convinced your community needs an intern? Learn about the many benefits that internships generate in “Effective Local Government Internships.”

If you have anything you’d like to share about your internship experiences, feel free to reach out to me.

Aloha,

James Davidson

ICMA's Knowledge Network Intern

jdavidson@icma.org