College and Post-Graduate Internship Program: For Interns

Pentacle’s College and Post-Graduate Internship Program seeks college students, postgraduates, or individuals above the age of 18 who are passionate about the arts and interested in expanding their knowledge of the nonprofit arts field through arts administration. This program requires a 12-week commitment of 2 hours/week for 4 weeks and 10-12 hours/week for 8 weeks. The next session is January 29th-April 22nd, 2024. The deadline for interns to apply is Sunday, November 12th, 2023.

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis. It's recommended that you sign up for Pentacle's newsletter, blog, and social media to stay updated when sessions dates are announced.

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About the Internship Program

College and post-graduate internships allow participants to gain hands-on experience in nonprofit business practices and attend weekly professional development seminars led by arts leaders in the field and Pentacle staff members. Interns are matched with artistic entities according to their mutually-defined goals and previous experience. Weekly professional development seminars will start four weeks before the internship with the artistic entities begins, giving interns the opportunity to build their administrative skills, learn from their peers, and network with field leaders. Program administrators provide mentorship to the interns and monitor their progress towards strategic goals as defined by each artistic entity and intern.

As preparation for the hands-on internship, intern will attend a series of 2-hour evening seminars happening once a week over four weeks. Following this skills-building period, interns will start to work for their artistic entities 10 hours per week over an 8-week session and continue to attend one evening seminar for four more weeks. Outside work to prepare for the seminars totaling 1 hour per week may be required occasionally.

In the final month of the internship, interns have the opportunity to discuss extending their internship to work with their designated arts organization beyond the program period.

Interns will receive a $1,000 stipend for their participation. College credit may be arranged.

We will be encouraging participants to abide by the current NY State guidelines regarding any in-person activities. Remote and in-person internships will be assigned based on applicants preferences. The weekly seminars will be held over Zoom. We are also open to interns and artistic entities outside of NYC.

What We're looking for:

• Interest in working with both emerging and established performing arts companies, as well as an interest in the greater performing arts field & nonprofit administration
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Superb organizational skills and attention to detail
• Diligent and self-motivated work ethic
• Desire to work individually, as well as part of a team
• Positive, open and engaged approach

What You'll get:

• Considered & personalized match with an affiliated company
• 8 weekly educational seminars focusing on topics within arts administration, including 4 pre-internship seminars that will set you up for success with your artistic entity
• Peer-to-peer learning and discussion
• Dedicated Pentacle staff members to guide you through the experience
• Guest lectures by professionals in the field
• Leadership development
• The opportunity to gain hands-on experience in non-profit arts administration

Read more about our Career Development programs.

Questions? Contact education@pentacle.org.