Top Internships in Richmond, VA

Supports operations accounting for upstream and midstream assets through journal entries, account reconciliations, financial analysis, invoice review, land and lease tracking, expense review, and data validation. The 12-week paid internship provides exposure to energy industry accounting, financial statement close processes, BI tools, and accounting automation.

Finance intern supporting accounting and finance operations, including account reconciliations, journal entries, daily processing, research, data collection, reporting, analysis, documentation, and special projects. The role collaborates with finance teams, assists with internal management reports, attends meetings, and provides administrative support while developing experience in a corporate financial services environment.

Paid technology internship providing exposure to enterprise systems, data management, infrastructure, digital technologies, security, networking, web technologies, and business applications. Interns may contribute across areas including enterprise architecture, corporate systems, quality and vendor management, retirement services, wealth management, and employee benefits. The role seeks students with technical coursework, analytical ability, communication skills, collaboration, and eagerness to learn.

Accounting intern supporting the financial reporting division by preparing accounting entries, financial reports, analytical reports, and work papers. The role involves collaborating with functional departments to validate financial information, documenting reporting activities, and contributing to team objectives. Candidates should be pursuing an accounting degree and be proficient in Excel and Microsoft Office. Experience with Power BI, Tableau, and AI is preferred.

Intern will support daily administrative tasks, project meetings, documentation management, and ad hoc assignments for the operations team. The role requires strong organization, communication, discretion with confidential information, and proficiency in Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and video editing software. Candidates must be enrolled in a bachelor’s degree program and commit to a three-month internship, with potential for full-time employment based on performance.

Supports the design and development of scalable end-to-end data pipelines and cloud data platforms. Responsibilities include improving data reliability and quality, implementing data management practices, supporting automation and process improvements, ensuring secure and cost-effective solutions, and recommending system enhancements. The intern collaborates with global teams and gains hands-on experience in data engineering, project coordination, and innovation management.

Paid, fully remote six-month Talent Acquisition internship supporting resume screening, candidate sourcing, interview coordination, candidate evaluations, recruitment tracking, onboarding documentation, candidate communication, and employer branding initiatives. The intern will work under experienced TA professionals while gaining practical recruiting experience and supporting a positive candidate experience.

Provides supervised technical support for heavy civil construction projects. Responsibilities include coordinating project activities, assisting with project accounting, scheduling, estimating, work plans, quantity tracking, construction layout, and quality monitoring. The intern works with project managers, project engineers, and superintendents across Virginia and North Carolina project sites.

Supports project managers with planning and coordination of heavy-lift, heavy-transport, and specialized rigging projects. Responsibilities include schedule development, cost tracking, customer submittals, project documentation, proposal support, meetings, site visits, and local field coordination. The intern gains exposure to equipment, project planning, budgeting, scheduling, resource allocation, risk management, and project execution while collaborating with engineers, superintendents, and field teams.

Participate in a 12-week technical sales internship supporting commercial HVAC equipment, controls, services, and building automation solutions. Work alongside sales account managers and customers, attend sales and service meetings, learn sales engineering processes, and help design, apply, and sell technical systems. The role develops technical, business, communication, leadership, and customer relationship skills while providing exposure to Trane Technologies’ equipment and service offerings.

Supports energy engineering projects for commercial, institutional, and industrial facilities. Responsibilities include building walk-throughs, energy audits, identifying conservation measures, technical analysis, project risk assessment, benchmarking, measurement and verification, reporting, data trend analysis, and client or account-manager collaboration. The internship provides exposure to energy-efficient building solutions, controls, mechanical and electrical systems, and project management.

Supports InterVarsity’s Creative Labs by designing visual communication materials, developing templates, producing print and digital assets, researching visual concepts, presenting drafts, incorporating feedback, and delivering final files. The intern also maintains design archives, participates in brainstorming and team meetings, provides peer feedback, and develops design skills through training. The role requires Christian commitment, collaboration, organization, initiative, and availability for approximately 10 hours weekly.

Participate in full-cycle government software implementations, including requirements gathering, client consultation, configuration, SQL querying, feature development, testing, deployment, and production support. Interns investigate complex issues, solve problems, communicate technical functionality, and adapt to changing client needs while working in-office at client sites.

Supports construction-site safety programs by enforcing policies, preparing safety plans and hazard analyses, coordinating training, PPE, drug screening, inspections, accident reporting, and corrective actions. Tracks safety trends and loss information, communicates with field crews and clients, and participates in contractor meetings. The intern works in demanding field conditions and assists with continuous improvement of safety processes.

Supports heavy-civil construction projects through cost control, forecasting, pay estimates, change-order processing, submittal coordination, material delivery management, subcontractor and material contract administration, and project scheduling. Works closely with project managers and field construction personnel while helping maintain accurate project records and ensuring materials comply with contract requirements.

Create lists of potential members, collaborate with market research to identify interested groups, and complete a flexible, mentor-guided business development project aligned with internship course requirements.

Project-based student internship to develop a content strategy, produce educational media, and support fellow marketing interns. Interns are paired with volunteer mentors and work flexibly to meet course requirements while promoting JMI's mission.

Project-based internship to create an introductory Economic Anthropology course (medium of your choice) focused on sustainability, equity, and efficiency. Interns are matched with volunteer mentors, must meet academic internship requirements, and will develop educational content flexible to course needs.

Project-based internship to create a business plan for Just Markets Institute, build internal processes and systems with mentor guidance, and support educational and marketing teams while meeting course requirements.

Work as a project-based communications intern within a six-person marketing team. Create a strategic communications plan targeted to specific audiences, develop marketing strategies to promote educational content and boost membership, and collaborate with a volunteer mentor and staff. Projects are flexible to meet spring internship course requirements.

Create an introductory Game Theory course (choice of medium) focused on the Prisoner's Dilemma and collective action problems. Work with a volunteer mentor, meet internship course requirements, and produce flexible educational content.

Create an introductory Development Economics course (focus on economic history and public institutions) using a chosen educational medium; work with a volunteer mentor and JMI staff to meet internship course requirements.

Support the Educational Team by building a uniform Google Sites platform, assist interns and mentors, and contribute to creating introductory courses across six economics topics. Work is project-based and flexible to meet academic internship requirements.

Work across frontend and backend to design, build, and ship annotation and review features; implement ingestion, storage, user management, and annotation pipelines; integrate model inference into workflows; optimize performance for large images/videos; design APIs and collaborate with product, operations, and annotators.

Label and outline plants in agricultural images using an online tool, tag crop and weed types per guidelines, maintain high accuracy across many images. Remote, flexible internship (3 months) with a monthly stipend and completion certificate. No coding or prior labeling experience required; video tutorials provided.