Internship Program

Location: Hybrid
Schedule: 15–25 hours/week, 10–12 weeks (flexible around academic calendars)
Compensation: Unpaid; academic credit available (if eligible through your institution)

Prodigy Communities acquires residential sites and secures the entitlements needed to realize each project’s highest and best use. As an Acquisitions & Entitlement Intern, you’ll support internal underwriting, land‑use due diligence, and entitlement strategy—helping our team evaluate deals, understand zoning pathways, and prepare internal decision materials.

This internship is structured as a learning experience. Interns shadow staff and complete training projects that mirror real‑world tasks.  Support site screening, zoning/entitlement research, preliminary underwriting, and internal IC materials for residential acquisitions.

• Market & Site Feasibility (training): Gather public data (census, planning portals), map amenities, summarize zoning and land‑use constraints, and draft concise feasibility memos. 
• Pro Forma & Budget Foundations (training): Build/iterate simple development models (sources & uses, hard/soft costs, contingencies, schedule‑driven interest carry); run sensitivities. 

• How residential development sites are sourced, screened, and advanced through entitlement. 
• How to translate zoning and policy into quantifiable development capacity. 
• How to structure an entitlement schedule, conditions precedent, and approval strategy. 
• How to write crisp investment and entitlement memos for internal decision‑making.
   

• Pursuing a degree in Real Estate, Urban Planning, Architecture (non‑design track), Finance, Public Policy, Geography/GIS, or related field. 
• Strong analytical writing; proficiency with Excel/Sheets. 
• Comfort reading municipal codes and public documents. 
• Bonus: basic GIS (ArcGIS/QGIS), familiarity with CoStar/Reonomy/public parcel portals, and presentation skills (Slides/PowerPoint).

• A portfolio of practical deliverables (mini pro formas, zoning memos, entitlement trackers, risk registers). 
• Mentorship from development, design, and construction professionals. 
• Networking with guest speakers (municipal planners, architects, lenders, GCs). 
• Academic credit support (if applicable).
  

• Unpaid, for‑credit learning experience designed under the “primary beneficiary” standard: educational goals, flexible scheduling.
• No promise of employment at completion. 
• May require an NDA and compliance with data‑handling protocols.

Prodigy Communities is an equal opportunity organization. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all interns.