Spend your Gap Year at the Adam Smith Institute

Applications for the 2024/2025 cycle are open!

If you are interested in taking a Gap Year with the Adam Smith Institute, please email maxwell@adamsmith.org for more information.

The Adam Smith Institute is looking for a student aged 18-20 taking a Gap Year between A-Levels and university to come and spend the year with us. 

The main requirements are that you:

• Are on a gap year; you must be 18-20 at the start of the internship

• Are open-minded, inquisitive, friendly, intellectually curious, eager to learn and interested in policy

• Know and have an opinion on the ASI's perspective and what it does

• Have a broadly liberal perspective on the world

The specific duties will include:

• Formatting and laying out ASI publications

• Carrying out research for ASI writers

• Managing the ASI database and website

• Keeping the office tidy

• Doing secretarial work for the directors

• Setting up and cleaning up after events

• Mailing publications out to subscribers

• Logging RSVPs for events

• Supporting donor relations

• Meeting a wide range of interesting & important people

• Learning about economics & politics

• Socialising with the staff

• Writing blog posts

Previous interns have gone on to work with the Adam Smith Institute, including former Executive Director, Sam Bowman, former Head of Research, Daniel Pryor, and former Head of Communications Emily Fielder.

This is a paid role and strictly limited to students on a Gap Year in between school and university. We will not consider university graduates. It will commence in September or October 2023 and finish in the summer of 2024, subject to the successful applicant's needs.

Applicants will be invited to interview remotely or at the Adam Smith Institute's offices in Westminster over the summer, depending on circumstances.

Please send a CV and cover letter of around 500 words, which explains why you'd like to work at the ASI, to maxwell@adamsmith.org.