Energy Program, Spring Internship

Job Description

Job Description

BPC's Spring Internship Program

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s internship program is built around each intern’s goals. Interns conduct research, support project analysts and staff, and see firsthand how people from both parties work together on policy. The program also offers exposure to the policymaking process and the functions of a think tank, plus professional development and networking with BPC staff and interns across DC.

Spring interns work 18 to 20 hours per week and receive a $3,000 stipend, paid in two equal installments during the internship. Interns set a weekly schedule with their intern manager at the start of the semester and can adjust it around class commitments. 

BPC’s internships are based in our Washington, DC office. BPC staff are in the office Tuesday through Thursday, with the option to work from home on Monday and Friday. Relocation assistance is not provided.

The Spring 2027 internship program runs Tuesday, January 26, 2027, through Thursday, April 1, 2027.

Project Description:

The BPC Energy Team is focused on pursuing federal policies that modernize America’s energy system, strengthen the economy, reduce emissions, and ensure that energy is reliable, affordable, and clean. We are working to forge coherent, evidence-based, and effective federal policies to responsibly drive a transition toward a cleaner low-carbon energy mix while maintaining economic growth.

Responsibilities:

The intern will work directly with BPC’s Energy Project team on analysis and research, event planning, monitoring news and congressional activity, communications activities, writing support, and administrative support. The intern will help support the Energy Project’s major initiatives in several areas, including:

• Permitting reform and modernization
• Electric power: Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs),load growth, and affordability
• AI + energy: load growth and energy demand
• Carbon accounting and markets: support for accounting principles and practices and market structures that incentivize decarbonization investment
• Critical minerals: strengthening U.S. critical mineral supply chains, offtake/pricing challenges for U.S. critical mineral projects
• Carbon management: policies to help advance carbon capture and storage technologies including direct air capture and nature-based solutions
• Climate and trade: policies that illuminate or leverage the U.S. competitive advantage in low-emissions manufacturing
• Innovation: energy innovation, technology development, and commercialization programs

Eligibility:

• Undergraduate students at the rising junior level or above, currently enrolled graduate students, or graduates within the past 12 months
• Non-U.S. citizens are eligible to apply but must have a valid work permit or visa verifying eligibility to work in the United States. BPC does not offer visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in an undergraduate, or graduate school or be a recent grad
• Strong research and writing skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks

Application Process:

• Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis until a qualified candidate has been identified .
• Send a separate application for each internship of interest, and do not submit more than once to the same posting.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered.
• No phone calls, please.

Required Materials (if possible, please submit as one PDF file):

• Resume
• Cover letter
• Writing sample, three to five pages
• College or university transcript (unofficial is acceptable)
• Brief response to the question “What does bipartisanship mean to you?” (five to eight sentences)

To celebrate diversity and ensure equity and inclusivity, BPC is committed to:

• Recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce with insights and solutions for our increasingly divided society
• Creating a workplace culture where all employees feel valued and their perspectives are heard
• Developing policy solutions and undertaking research that reflect a diversity of thought and experience

These commitments help us fulfill our mission and foster bipartisanship more effectively.