Summer 2025 - Instructional Design Intern - Washington, DC

Summer 2025 - Apprentice Program: Instructional Design Intern - 90365232 - Washington

Your success is a train ride away!

As we move America’s workforce toward the future, Amtrak connects businesses and communities across the country. We employ more than 20,000 diverse, energetic professionals in a variety of career fields throughout the United States. The safety of our passengers, our employees, the public and our operating environment is our priority, and the success of our railroad is due to our employees.

Are you ready to join our team?

Our values of ‘Do the Right Thing, Excel Together and Put Customers First’ are at the heart of what matters most to us, and our Core Capabilities, ‘Building Trust, Accountability, Effective Communication, Customer Focus, and Proactive Safety & Security’ are what every employee needs to know and do to be most impactful at Amtrak. By living the Amtrak values, focusing on our capabilities, and actively embracing and fostering diverse ideas, backgrounds, and perspectives, together we will honor our past and make Amtrak a company of the future.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As an Instructional Design Intern for the Apprentice Program, you will gain experience in the instructional design process for training and the development of learning materials. Throughout your internship, you will assist the team by creating and updating training and development courses that will engage the apprenticeship participants from start to finish. You will also research and recommend new and innovative learning solutions that will utilize state of the art technologies to enhance the existing curriculum as well as the learning of the apprentices.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Design and develop engaging content to industry's standards using appropriate adult learning methodology.
• Collaborate with trainers on improvements to blended learning and recommend new and innovative ways of presenting content.
• Develop content utilizing tools such as Microsoft Office suite
• Design and develop new knowledge and performance-based assessments.
• Explore, evaluate, and recommend new technologies.
• Maintain and update training materials, archives, and technologies.
• Collaborate and communicate with subject matter experts in visual, oral, and written form.
• Contribute towards training related projects

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be actively pursuing a degree at an accredited educational institution.
• Must be actively pursuing an undergraduate/graduate degree in training and development, human resources, education, instructional design, business administration, or I/O psychology.
• Must have at least 1 year of academic undergraduate studies completed or a sophomore status at minimum.
• Must have a cumulative GPA of 2.8 or higher

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have a sound understanding of the ADDIE instructional design model
• Think creatively and bring learning content to life to engage user
• Be prepared to work in a busy deadline orientated environment
• Have excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Highly organized
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and time management skills
• Ability to work independently

The hourly range is $17.50 per hour - $35.00 per hour. Pay is based on factors including school year, program of study, etc.  In addition, paid internships include Amtrak rail pass privileges as a part of the experience along with one (1) PTO day per academic year.

Summer 2025 internship program will run from May 19th - August 8, 2025. 

Requisition ID:163164
Posting Location(s):District of Columbia; Maryland; Virginia

Work Arrangement:06-Onsite 
Job Family/Function:Human Capital 
Relocation Offered:No 
Travel Requirements:0 - 5% 

You power our progress through your performance.
 

We want your work at Amtrak to be more than a job. We want your career at Amtrak to be a fulfilling experience where you find challenging work, rewarding opportunities, respect among colleagues, and attractive compensation. Amtrak maintains a culture that values high performance and recognizes individual employee contributions. 

Amtrak is committed to a safe workplace free of drugs and alcohol. All Amtrak positions requires a pre-employment background check that includes prior employment verification, a criminal history check and a pre-employment drug screen. 

Candidates who test positive for marijuana will be disqualified, regardless of any state or local statute, ordinance, regulation, or other law that legalizes or decriminalizes the use or possession of marijuana, whether for medical, recreational, or other use. Amtrak's pre-employment drug testing program is administered in accordance with DOT regulations and applicable law.  

In accordance with DOT regulations (49 CFR § 40.25), Amtrak is required to obtain prior drug and alcohol testing records for applicants/employees intending to perform safety-sensitive duties for covered Department of Transportation positions. If an applicant/employee refuses to provide written consent for Amtrak to obtain these records, the individual will not be permitted to perform safety-sensitive functions.

In accordance with federal law governing security checks of covered individuals for providers of public transportation (Title 6 U.S.C. §1143), Amtrak is required to screen applicants for any permanent or interim disqualifying criminal offenses. 

Note that any education requirement listed above may be deemed satisfied if you have an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Amtrak is an EOE/Affirmative Action Minority/Female employer, and we welcome all to apply. We consider candidates regardless of race/color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related conditions), national origin/ethnicity, age, disability (intellectual, mental and physical), veteran status, marital status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, genetic information, citizenship or any other personal characteristics protected by law.