The State of New York Department of Civil Service offers a two-year professional internship to candidates with a master's degree in Public Administration or a related field. The goal of the PMI is to attract recent graduates with exceptional skills and abilities into management training positions in New York State government. Candidates are appointed upon completion of an application, test and interview process.
Candidates select one of four career tracks and are placed in a New York State agency.
During the two-year appointment, they participate in special projects, training and rotational assignments. The Rockefeller Institute provides the training component throughout the two-year program and monitors the overall progress of the intern. Frank J. Thompson serves as Director of the PMI Training and Liz Praetorius serves as Associate Director. For more information about the program, please visit the Department of Civil Service's web site . For a Training Schedule of the 1999-2001 Cohort events at the Rockefeller Institute click here .