Village in Progress (VIP), a community violence prevention initiative within the Boston Public Health Commission, is seeking interns passionate about public health, community engagement, and violence prevention. VIP works alongside residents, grassroots organizations, and community partners to build safer, stronger neighborhoods through healing-centered programming, outreach, and collaboration. Interns will gain hands-on experience supporting community initiatives, partnerships, events, and outreach efforts while contributing to meaningful, community-driven work across Boston.
The intern will focus heavily on community engagement, working alongside the VIP team to build real relationships with residents, partners, and grassroots organizations and understand what is actually happening on the ground. From there, they will help shape our prevention strategies by identifying gaps, testing ideas, and translating what we are hearing in community into real programming. This includes supporting pilot efforts, documenting what is working, and helping us refine our approach so that our work stays rooted in community and actually leads to stronger, more effective violence prevention.
Through this internship, participants will help advance VIP’s mission to:
By joining Village in Progress, interns become part of a collective effort to create villages where everyone belongs, everyone contributes, and everyone is safer together.
Qualifications
Public service is a noble calling: to help others, to make our communities stronger, and to uphold the public trust.
As city employees, we see the results of our hard work in our own community— in street and infrastructure improvements, new buildings rising from the ground, safer and more prosperous neighborhoods, and happier, healthier children, families, and senior citizens.
We may all come from different backgrounds, but we are connected through our passion for service.
What we do at work today, and everyday, shapes the Boston of tomorrow.
Join us!
The City of Boston is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment. Therefore, qualified applicants will be considered regardless of their sex, race, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military and veteran status, or other protected category.
