2025 Summer Intern, Housing & Urban Development (Bachelors, Hybrid)
DescriptionAt ICF we make big things happen.Let’s work together to help disaster impacted communities recover and re-build for future resilience. ICF’s growing Disaster Management division seeks interns to support our project activities. As an intern, you will provide support to specific recovery projects and functions for the Division. You will also work alongside project teams, helping state and local clients administer United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and United States Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) funded programs. You will be exposed to a wide variety of experts across the firm including those who address issues related to infrastructure, disaster planning and recovery, financial literacy, energy efficiency, green building, and job training. This is an outstanding opportunity to work with talented and passionate individuals and to grow with a firm that believes in nurturing talent and developing long-term career success.Our 2025 Summer Internship is a 10-week, full-time program that generally begins in early June and concludes in mid-August. The internship will be hybrid (at least two days per week in office) from our Austin, TX office. ICF does not provide relocation nor housing assistance for internships.A HUD Housing, Infrastructure, and Mitigation Internship may:
Provide support to specific recovery projects and functions for the Division
Work alongside project teams, helping state and local clients administer HUD CDBG-DR and Mitigation-funded disaster recovery programs.
Interact with a wide variety of experts across the firm who address issues related to energy efficiency and green building, infrastructure, disaster planning and recovery, financial literacy, job training, and others.
Support project teams implementing HUD Disaster Recovery and Mitigation funded programs, helping to refine program procedures and processes for implementation
Work with staff to set up systems and help interpret and apply disaster recovery regulations and policy
Provide reconciliation, accounting, and supporting documentation for the assigned grants to ensure that each subrecipient will have an audit quality file
Conduct reviews of supporting documentation for the assigned grants to ensure that each subrecipient receives appropriate reimbursement for approved, federally funded programs
Provide general assistance to subrecipients in preparing documentation, invoices, and information to request reimbursement for approved, federally funded programs
Help develop written products and tools for grantee policies and procedures and program implementation and design
Assist in the creation and maintenance of various documents, training materials, and presentations
Assist with operational improvement initiatives and address operational problems as they arise
Conduct program and policy research
Basic Qualifications:
Currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s degree program with an emphasis on Engineering, Emergency Management, Political Science, Accounting, hard sciences or other similarly related field (with a graduation date of August 2025 or later).
Preferred Qualifications:
Excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities
Strong time management skills
Proficiency in MS Office Applications (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel)
Experience conducting research, organizing, and analyzing information
Experience writing detailed guidance and procedural materials
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