Located in Washington, DC, one of the world’s leading centers of international interaction, students have access to an array of unique career opportunities in the field of U.S Foreign Policy. Below are a list of links to just a few of the many organizations where U.S. Foreign Policy graduates have found employment after graduation: 

Department of State

Department of Defense

Department of Justice

Department of Homeland Security

Department of Agriculture

Department of Treasury

Department of Energy

Government Accountability Office

Office of Management and Budget

Central Intelligence Agency

U.S. House of Representatives/U.S. Senate

Henry L. Stimson Center

Pew Research Center for the People and the Press

Organization of American States

Human Rights First

InterAction

Internship Opportunities

Below are some examples of organizations offering internships of interest to USFP graduate students:

American Enterprise Institute – Foreign and Defense Policy Area http://www.aei.org/

See their internships page for more information or contact internships@aei.org. 

American Security Project http://americansecurityproject.org

See their employment page for internship postings and other information.

The Atlantic Council http://www.acus.org

See the employment and internships page for more information.

The Brookings Institute http://www.brookings.edu

See their Opportunities at Brookings page for more information or email HROffice@brookings.edu.

The Center for Global Development http://www.cgdev.org 

See their internships page for more information.

The Connect US Fund http://www.connectusfund.org

Visit the job list to see internship opportunities.

Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org

See the internships page for more information on NY and DC internship openings.

Defense Intelligence Agency http://www.dia.mil/

See their student programs page for more information.

Federal Bureau of Investigation – Washington Field Office http://washingtondc.fbi.gov/

Fund for Peace http://www.fundforpeace.org/

See their organization page on Idealist.org for individual internship postings.

The German Marshall Fund http://www.gmfus.org

See their career opportunities page for more information on available internships.

The National Committee on American Foreign Policy (New York) http://ncafp.org 

See the careers and internships page for more information.

National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) http://www.start.umd.edu/start/

National Security Division of the Department of Justice http://www.justice.gov/nsd/ 

See their internships page for more information.

State Department Bureau of Intelligence and Research http://www.state.gov/s/inr/

See their student programs page for more information on internships.

The Stimson Center http://www.stimson.org/

See the internships page for more information.

United States Agency for International Development

  http://www.usaid.gov/

See the internships page for more information.

United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org/  

See the Research Assistant Program page for more details.

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars http://www.wilsoncenter.org 

See their internships page or email internships@wilsoncenter.org for more information.

The World Bank http://www.worldbank.org/

See the bank internship page for more information.

Fellowship Opportunities

Government Service

Presidential Management Fellows Program https://www.pmf.opm.gov/index.aspx

USAID Fellowship Program http://www.usaid.gov/careers/fellows/index.html

Consortium Research Fellows Program (Defense) http://www.consortium-research-fellows.org/index.cfm

Department of Homeland Security Fellowship Program http://www.orau.gov/dhsed/

 

Nuclear Nonproliferation

Nonproliferation Graduate Fellowship Program http://ngfp.pnnl.gov/

New Voices Nonproliferation Fellowship http://www.armscontrol.org/employment/newvoices

Nuclear Security Fellowship – Council on Foreign Relations http://www.cfr.org/about/fellowships/StantonFellowship.html

Nuclear Security Fellowship – Harvard http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/fellowships/stanton.html

 

Foreign Language Skills

Boren Fellowship http://www.borenawards.org/boren_fellowship

Critical Language Scholarship Program http://www.clscholarship.org/

Miscellaneous

Center for International Security and Cooperation Fellowship Program, University http://cisac.stanford.edu/fellowships/

Dorothy Danforth Compton Fellowships (Peace and Security) http://www.comptonfoundation.org/index.html

The Herbert Scoville Jr Peace Fellowship (Peace and Security) http://www.scoville.org/apply.html

German Marshall Memorial Fellowship (Transatlantic Relations) http://www.gmfus.org/fellowships/mmf.cfm