2027 Summer Intern, Disaster Management (Baton Rouge, LA; Tallahassee, FL; Remote)

Summary

ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider that supports clients in addressing complex challenges. The 2027 Summer Intern, Disaster Management, will rotate through preparedness and insurance, emergency and disaster operations, and disaster recovery, gaining exposure to planning, active response, and community rebuilding activities.

Responsibilities

• Interns move through each service line on a set rotation and work alongside the consultants doing the work that day
• Interns gain exposure to emergency operations plan development, hazard and vulnerability assessments, and exercise design across tabletop, functional and full scale formats used to test those plans
• Additionally, Long term recovery planning that helps a jurisdiction come back stronger than before
• Interns will also see how insurance and risk transfer strategies, including catastrophe modeling and risk pooling, factor into a client's broader resilience posture
• Interns gain exposure to Emergency Operations Center structure and staffing, Incident Command System and National Incident Management System practices, resource typing and mutual aid requests, and the situational awareness products, such as situation reports and leadership briefings, that keep a response moving and stakeholders informed
• Interns gain exposure to FEMA Public Assistance program delivery, damage assessment, documentation, cost recovery and grant compliance

Skills

• By start date at least 30 credit hours in emergency management, homeland security, public administration, political science, public health or a related field
• U.S. Citizenship is required per Federal contracts
• Basic familiarity with the disaster lifecycle and core emergency management concepts is a plus, including coursework or self study in FEMA's Incident Command System or National Incident Management System (for example IS 100 and IS 700)
• Comfortable with Excel, PowerPoint and Word; exposure to GIS or other data analysis tools is a plus
• Strong writing and research skills, including the ability to translate technical material for different audiences
• Genuine interest in emergency management, disaster recovery or public sector consulting

Qualifications

Must Haves

• By start date at least 30 credit hours in emergency management, homeland security, public administration, political science, public health or a related field
• U.S. Citizenship is required per Federal contracts

Nice to Haves

• Basic familiarity with the disaster lifecycle and core emergency management concepts is a plus, including coursework or self study in FEMA's Incident Command System or National Incident Management System (for example IS 100 and IS 700)
• Comfortable with Excel, PowerPoint and Word; exposure to GIS or other data analysis tools is a plus
• Strong writing and research skills, including the ability to translate technical material for different audiences
• Genuine interest in emergency management, disaster recovery or public sector consulting

Benefits

• Work may be performed in a hybrid capacity from Baton Rouge, LA or Tallahassee, FL, or remotely from any U.S. location.
• Exposure, learning and time with the teams doing the work.