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U.S. Commercial Service Bucharest Student Internship Program

CS Bucharest Intern

THE CS BUCHAREST INTERNSHIP

The Commercial Service of the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, known as CS Bucharest, provides students who are exploring a career in international business, marketing, diplomacy, or foreign affairs the opportunity to work in the area of international trade together with our team. You would be working alongside the Commercial Service staff helping U.S. exporters research the Romanian market, find trade partners, and develop international business solutions. CS Bucharest is a busy, demand-driven office with plenty of opportunities for you to learn and to build experience into your resume.

Within this framework, we expect participants in our internship program to assist our staff with a combination of administrative and analytical duties:

  • Assistance with the organization of ongoing projects such as trade missions, trade shows, publications, seminars, etc.
  • Assistance with the collection of information for industry-specific market research
  • A special project may be assigned to an intern, depending on the needs of this office and the abilities of the intern to complete the project
  • Content management of this website
  • Answering routine business inquiries and document filing

Work schedules will be negotiated. Business dress is required.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE? 

In order to participate in the CS Bucharest internship program, you must meet the following qualifications:

  • Current enrollment (not less than half time) in an accredited university
  • Romanian or US citizenship
  • English proficiency
  • Availability for 4-6 weeks, 20h per week
  • Good communication and computer skills

PAYMENT, TRAVEL AND LODGING

This is strictly a volunteer internship; interns will receive no monetary reimbursement for their work at CS Bucharest. Federal regulations prohibit financial compensation. Interns are solely responsible for their travel and lodging arrangements.

APPLICATION PROCESS

We accept applications on a rollover basis, with the exception of summer and winter periods, for which the deadlines are January 31, and August 31 respectively.

Your application must include:

After being selected for an internship position in our office, please fill out / submit the following documents:

Romanian Citizens:

American Citizens:

Please send your application to Ms. Monica Pascu. Upon receiving of documents, a background security check will be conducted, and only after receiving the mandatory security clearance the applicant will be able to start the internship at CS Bucarest. If you have questions about this program, please feel free to contact us. 

CS BUCHAREST INTERNS

The CS Bucharest Internship program kicked off in 2006 with our first intern, Oana Lupu, a sophomore at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., who worked with the CS Romania Team between June 5 and July 4, 2006. The second intern, Octavia Foarta, a sophomore at Amherst was with the CS Team from July 5 to August 15, 2006. Miron Lila from the London School of Economics & Political Science and Florian Langa from Romania's National School of Political & Administrative Sciences were up next (at the same time!), followed by Ileana Nicorici from Bucharest's Economic Studies Academy. In 2007 five new students joined CS Bucharest Internship Program: Monica Filip, Student, Internal & International Commercial and Financial-Banking Relations, Romanian-American University, Steven Foss, Student, Bachelor of Arts, Justice Studies, Kent State University, Elizabeth Rivard, Student, Master of Arts, Development Economics, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, Dan Dascalescu and Mihaela Paun, Students of the Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. This year new Romanian students Alexandru Bernea and Bogdan Dumitru joined our program from the Bucharest Economic Studies Academy and we had aboard a new American student, Thomas Sewell from the University of Kentucky, Patterson School's Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Commerce. You can read their impressions of the experience by clicking on their names. For more information please e-mail monica.pascu@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov .