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About the Role

This internship offers hands-on experience in employee selection, assessment development, and large-scale recruitment operations, supporting the Port Authority’s mission to "Keep the region moving". The role provides meaningful, real-world experience in talent selection and assessment work that directly contributes to building and maintaining a highly qualified workforce.

Responsibilities

• Conduct job analyses to identify critical competencies
• Assist in the development of written, oral, and practical assessments
• Support test administration logistics, scheduling, and coordination
• Assist in facilitating the movement of PAPD Police Officer candidates through multiple selection and testing phases
• Perform descriptive and basic statistical analyses to monitor applicant progress and recruitment outcomes
• Contribute to assessment reports, recruitment metrics, and documentation to ensure defensible selection processes
• Help prepare training materials for item writers and assessment raters

Requirements

• Enrollment at a college or university at the time of the internship
• Major in Industrial/Organizational Psychology or a related discipline
• Graduate-level student
• Strong interest in assessment science, employee selection and data analytics
• Familiarity with employment testing standards and basic statistics
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with statistical tools is a plus (SPSS, R)

Skills

• Assessment science
• Employee selection
• Data analytics
• Employment testing standards
• Basic statistics
• Communication
• Organization
• Problem-solving
• Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Statistical tools (SPSS, R)

Location

• Remote (max 1 day/week)
• In-person

Work Type

• Internship
• Part-time (20 hours per week)

Experience Level

• Graduate-level student

Education Level

• College or university enrollment
• Graduate-level student

Salary/Compensations

• $18.61 to $28.72 per hour

Benefits

• Ability to opt in to the New York State and Local Retirement System
• Access to Employee Business Resource Groups
• Facility Tours
• Career Panels
• Social/Networking Events

About the Company

• The Port Authority's mission is to “Keep the region moving”