Paid Internship: National Security Talent & Human Capital Intern

Paid Internship: National Security Talent & Human Capital Intern

Company: Talent Acquisition Strategies

Location: Hybrid — Tysons Corner, VA office; mostly remote

Duration: May 2025 through summer, with potential opportunity to extend

Hours: 25–30 hours per week

Compensation: $32–$40 per hour

About Talent Acquisition Strategies

Talent Acquisition Strategies supports government and private industry clients in solving complex recruitment and human capital challenges tied to national security. Our work focuses on helping organizations identify, engage, assess, and hire the talent needed to protect the country against international threats. We partner with federal, government-adjacent, and industrial contractor clients to strengthen talent pipelines, improve hiring outcomes, and deliver practical workforce solutions in mission-critical environments.

Opportunity Overview

Talent Acquisition Strategies is seeking a paid intern for summer 2025 who is interested in exploring national security through the lens of talent, hiring, recruitment, and human capital strategy. This opportunity is designed for Georgetown University School of Foreign Service students who want exposure to the people, workforce, and hiring systems that support foreign affairs, defense, intelligence, homeland security, cybersecurity, and broader international national security missions.

SFS-focused positioning sentence: Because Talent Acquisition Strategies supports clients placing professionals into roles with foreign affairs, defense, intelligence, and international national security impact, this internship offers students a practical way to examine national security through the lens of talent, workforce development, and mission-critical hiring, and may align with Georgetown SFS internship requirements.

The intern will work with a portfolio of industrial contractor clients hiring for national security-related positions, as well as government clients focused on talent and human capital solutions. The role offers hands-on exposure to sourcing, candidate engagement, recruiting methodologies, client support, proposal support, administrative coordination, and design-related projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Support recruiting and talent acquisition activities for clients operating in national security, federal, and industrial contractor environments.
• Learn and apply sourcing techniques to identify professionals aligned with mission-critical roles.
• Assist with candidate research, outreach preparation, engagement tracking, and recruiting process support.
• Support human capital and talent strategy projects for government and private industry clients.
• Help prepare client-facing materials, proposal inputs, recruiting collateral, and design-support deliverables.
• Conduct research related to federal hiring, contractor talent markets, workforce trends, and national security talent needs.
• Provide administrative and operational support across recruiting, business development, and client delivery activities.
• Participate in mentoring, training, and learning sessions with experienced national security and recruiting professionals.

Ideal Candidate Profile

This internship is well suited for a student who has interest or experience in recruitment, human capital, national security, international affairs, federal government operations, or industrial contractor hiring. Candidates should be intellectually curious, mission-oriented, detail-focused, and comfortable working in a fast-moving professional environment.

Required Qualifications

• Current Georgetown University School of Foreign Service student or student with a strong international affairs / national security focus.
• Passion for national security, foreign affairs, and public mission work.
• Interest in recruitment, talent acquisition, human capital, workforce planning, or organizational strategy.
• Broad understanding of the federal government, government contracting, or the national security industrial base.
• Strong research, writing, communication, and organizational skills.
• Technical acumen and comfort learning recruiting platforms, research tools, databases, and workflow systems.
• Ability to work independently in a mostly remote environment while supporting a collaborative team.

Preferred Background

• Prior exposure to recruiting, HR, talent acquisition, human capital consulting, career services, research, communications, or business development.
• Interest in defense, intelligence, cybersecurity, homeland security, diplomacy, or international security.
• Experience creating presentations, written summaries, outreach materials, or proposal-support content.

Learning & Development

The intern will have the opportunity to learn from seasoned national security professionals with diverse backgrounds across government, industry, recruiting, and human capital strategy. Mentoring, training, and structured learning will be available throughout the internship. This is a strong opportunity for a student seeking to understand how talent strategy, workforce development, and hiring directly support national security missions.

Why This Internship

This internship provides a rare opportunity to see national security from a workforce and talent perspective. Rather than focusing only on policy or operations, the intern will learn how government and industry organizations build the teams required to meet urgent national and international security challenges. The experience will be practical, client-facing, and mission-relevant, with exposure to recruiting tradecraft, candidate engagement, proposal support, human capital solutions, and the broader national security talent ecosystem.