Spring 2025: High School Intern, Restoring Promise

About the role:

The Restoring Promise high school intern will support the Designed for Dignity project on research and technical assistance efforts. The purpose of the position is to expose the intern to a variety of different responsibilities and tasks associated with justice reform work, as well as general exposure to working in a large organization. The intern will be given key opportunities to develop skills in technical assistance, critical analysis, research, implementation support, partnership-building, problem-solving, and project management.

What you’ll do:

Research

• Enter and clean data for manual surveys of young adults and staff for Designed for Dignity project
• Support data visualization efforts for Designed for Dignity presentations
• Transcribe qualitative interviews and/or focus groups
• Document process for Designed for Dignity (attend meetings and note-take in a standardized document)

Technical assistance

• Provide technical support for meetings and trainings held virtually
• Join external and internal meetings and assist with notetaking
• Conduct policy review
• Support data visualization and presentations
• Administrative support

Learning and development

• Participate in trainings from Restoring Promise staff on data entry, analysis, visualization, and policy review.
• Attend learning opportunities related to justice reform and share notes with Restoring Promise team.
• Engage in/actively participate in weekly meetings with the full team.
• Attend, with the aim to engage in, meetings with external partners, stakeholders, and organizations.
• Attend monthly department and Institute meetings.
• One on one supervision, training, and guidance from research and technical assistance leadership.

Initiative support

• Conduct literature reviews.
• Compile information for progress reports, presentations, and materials for funders and partners.
• Assist with the development of written reports, presentations, and other publications.

What qualifications are we looking for?

• High school senior at Institute for Collaborative Education

Location:

Please note this role will report to our Brooklyn, NY office. Vera interns and employees adhere to a hybrid schedule and are in-office on an alternating schedule. Full-time positions generally amount to 10 days per month. Part-time positions generally amount to 5 days per month.

Schedule:

The intern should be available to work up to 24 hours per week during the spring. The dates will be between February 3 and June 20, 2025, with some flexibility to accommodate personal and academic schedules.

Compensation:

Please note that this is an unpaid internship opportunity.

How to apply:

Please submit cover letter and resume. In your cover letter, please explain why you are passionate about criminal justice reform and what you hope to gain from this internship.

Applications may also be faxed to:

ATTN: People, Place, and Culture / Spring 2025 – High School Intern, Restoring Promise
Vera Institute of Justice
34 35th St, Suite 4-2A, Brooklyn, NY 11232
Fax: (212) 941-9407
Please use only one method (online, mail or fax) of submission.
No phone calls, please. Only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.

Vera is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without unlawful discrimination based on race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior record of arrest or conviction, citizenship status, current employment status, or caregiver status. 

Vera works to advance justice, particularly racial justice, in an increasingly multicultural country and globally connected world. We value diverse experiences, including with regard to educational background and justice system contact, and depend on a diverse staff to carry out our mission. 

For more information about Vera, please visit www.vera.org.

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