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Education Programs Paid Internship (hiring two interns) - $17/hr.
Part time: May 2025-May 2026, in-person. May 2025-August 2025, 30 hours/week (per intern); September 2025-May 2026, 10 hours/week (per intern).

The Holdsworth Center is a non-profit organization founded and largely funded by Charles Butt, Chairman of H-E-B, a regional retail company. Our mission is to impact, over time, the quality of K-12 public education for all Texas students by supporting and developing leaders. Based in Austin, Texas, we were founded in 2017 in honor of Charles’ mother, Mary Elizabeth Holdsworth Butt, who was an educator, a philanthropist, and a lifelong pioneering advocate.

We partner with public school districts to help them grow outstanding leaders at all levels so that staff thrive, and students excel in every classroom. At Holdsworth, we believe leadership isn’t just about titles. We make a deep investment in leaders at both the district and campus levels, including teachers who lead students in the classroom and influence and lead their colleagues.

The Holdsworth Center seeks Interns who believe their unique skills and inner purpose would be a great match for Holdsworth’s mission, culture, and values.

About the Position

We are seeking two organized and driven individuals to serve as interns with the Campus Programs team. The Campus Programs team will deliver two programs in 2025-26: the Campus Leadership Program (CLP), a two-year journey for principals and their school teams consisting of 12 multi-day, in-person learning sessions, and the Aspiring Principal Program, a one-year opportunity for high potential future principals in the Permian Basin region. In the coming year, we will serve more than 130 schools and 400 campus leaders across Texas and parts of New Mexico. The interns will assist Program Coordinators with communications, logistics and execution of large-scale events (learning sessions).

Responsibilities:

• Provide logistics support for multi-day learning sessions
• Create, review, and finalize printed and digital assets and communications
• Collect, enter, and track data on spreadsheets
• Organize and manage programs storage and supplies
• Proof-read documents
• Research various topics to support team projects

Desirable candidates should be able to:

• Work at our Campus on Lake Austin
• 20 hours per week late April through mid-August
• 10 hours per week mid-August through May
• Organize personal work
• Manage time effectively
• Work independently/be self-motivated
• Work on multiple projects at the same time
• Effectively and efficiently manipulate data and spreadsheets
• Communicate clearly both verbally and in writing
• Proof-read print and digital assets
• Use Microsoft Office and Google Suite comfortably
• Quickly learn new systems and processes
• Ask clarifying questions to gather necessary information for projects
• Support multiple team members with different projects
• Collaborate on projects with peer

Insights we hope candidates will acquire in this position

• Large scale event planning
• Use of the planning tool, ASANA for managing projects
• Work as part of a team and team meeting dynamics
• Gain confidence in giving and receiving feedback
• Lead with values at the center of decision-making
• Exposure to world-class personal leadership development content and faculty
• Understand the inner workings of the programs department of an educational non-profit

Compensation & Benefits

$17/hr.
Part time: May 2025-May 2026, in-person. May 2025-August 2025, 30 hours/week (per intern); September 2025-May 2026, 10 hours/week (per intern).