Intern, Assessment Services

The Human Resources Department is seeking a motivated and detail-oriented intern to join the Assessment Services Unit. This internship offers a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience across employee selection, assessment development, and large-scale recruitment operations. The intern will be exposed to a wide range of job titles and hiring processes that support the Port Authority’s mission to “Keep the region moving”, including operational, maintenance, leadership, and public-safety roles. This role provides meaningful, real-world experience in talent selection and assessment work that directly contributes to building and maintaining a highly qualified workforce.

Responsibilities

• Conduct job analyses to identify critical competencies
• Assist in the development of written, oral, and practical assessments
• Support test administration logistics, scheduling, and coordination
• Assist in facilitating the movement of PAPD Police Officer candidates through multiple selection and testing phases
• Perform descriptive and basic statistical analyses to monitor applicant progress and recruitment outcomes
• Contribute to assessment reports, recruitment metrics, and documentation to ensure defensible selection processes
• Help prepare training materials for item writers and assessment raters

Requirements

• Enrollment at a college or university at the time of the internship
• Major in Industrial/Organizational Psychology or a related discipline
• Graduate-level student

Desired Qualifications

• Strong interest in assessment science, employee selection and data analytics
• Familiarity with employment testing standards and basic statistics
• Excellent communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Experience with statistical tools is a plus (SPSS, R)

Schedule

• Start date expected in September 2026
• 20 hours per week
• Permits remote work a maximum of one day per week; in-person collaboration is essential and may be required depending on business needs

Pay

The hourly rate range is $18.61 to $28.72 (the exact rate will be determined by internship type and rising school year).

Benefits

• Ability to opt in to the New York State and Local Retirement System
• Access to Employee Business Resource Groups
• Facility Tours
• Career Panels
• Social/Networking Events

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey builds, operates, and maintains many of the most important transportation and trade infrastructure assets in the country. The agency's network of aviation, ground, rail, and seaport facilities supports more than 550,000 regional jobs and generates more than twenty-three billion in annual wages and eighty billion in annual economic activity. The Port Authority also owns and manages the 16-acre World Trade Center site, where the 1,776-foot-tall One World Trade Center is now the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.