Education Design Intern

Education Design Lab

6d • $1,200 - $1,200 • Remote

About The Position

Education Design Lab (“The Lab”) is a national nonprofit that designs, tests, and implements education models and credentials that address the rapidly changing economy to ensure equitable outcomes for learners and earners. The Lab has partnered with some of the most aspirational institutions, and often their ecosystem partners, as they consider how to design their offerings to serve learners flexibly with more data-driven, human-centered models, processes and tools. Our biggest areas of work include improved career pathway visibility, micro-pathways, durable skills, micro-credentials, alternative on-ramps to degree, upskilling workers, and training college leadership teams in change management and agile prototyping.
The Lab is unlike other organizations in the nonprofit education space. We are boundary- spanners and work across disciplines and alongside schools, employers, entrepreneurs, government, foundations, nonprofits, and innovators. We are known for our work on the ground and have significant experience managing national and local learning cohorts, working with organizations such as Ascendium, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Citizens, Carnegie Corporation of NY, Charles Koch Foundation, Walmart, and a variety of state and regional community college systems. To learn more about the work we do and what we care about, visit www.eddesignlab.org

Overview
We are seeking curious, motivated Education Design Interns to support project teams across the Lab during Spring/Summer 2026. This paid, full-time internship offers hands-on exposure to human-centered design, community college transformation, and equity-driven education innovation.
The Education Design Interns will work alongside Education Designers, project leads, and partners to support design sessions, data collection, synthesis, and storytelling across multiple Lab initiatives. Interns contribute meaningfully to live projects while building practical skills in facilitation support, research, collaboration, and design operations.
This role is well suited for high school graduates, undergraduate, or graduate students, or early-career professionals, who are passionate about education as a lever for equity, excited to learn through doing, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, remote, and collaborative environment.

Requirements

• Are passionate about education
• Are equity-focused and committed to dismantling racist systems and other systems of oppression
• Have a strong understanding of marginalized populations through lived or work-based experience
• Are interested in learning about and applying human and/or equity-centered design and design thinking principles to education
• Are a strong oral and written communicator
• Enjoy telling stories either through written or visual mediums
• Get excited by working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Are someone who is not afraid to try and fail
• Are creative, insightful, detail-oriented, and imaginative
• Feel comfortable working in a largely remote environment

Responsibilities

• Working across Lab projects to provide capacity and support to project leads/teams
• Supporting our emerging work around what it means to create an impactful Community of Practice
• Participating in and supporting data collection across projects and using those data to help the Lab tell impactful stories about our work
• Supporting design sessions, meetings, and calls with partners
• Designing templates for Miro, coordinating logistics during live sessions and capturing/synthesizing data and themes

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: High school or GED