Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

P.O. Box 3057, Harrisburg, PA 17105-3057

DATE: August 17, 2004

SUBJECT: Internship Opportunity

FROM: Tom Schumacher, PENNDOT Center for Performance Excellence, Audit Resolution Section

The Center for Performance Excellence in Penn DOT is interested in hiring a full time college student who has completed at least two years in a 4 year degree program. Although we would prefer a Business Management student, we will consider other fields of education. The minimum part time hours requested per week is 12.

This position will focus on descriptive statistical work, investigative, problem-solving desk-auditing tasks. In this role a student will be reviewing and reconciling various single audit reports received from various Counties, Townships and Cities throughout Pennsylvania that receive funding from Penn DOT. However, the work will not solely center on number crunching. Instead, the student will engage in communicating, monitoring, coordinating, researching, investigating, problem solving and analyzing a variety of data and processes. The intern will work independently and in conjunction with others.

In order to achieve success, the student must be comfortable performing a fair amount of computer work. Word and excel experience are required.

The student will play key roles to ensuring that processes and projects run smoothly. To do so will involve a great deal of communications, both verbally and in writing. Verbal communications will include face-to-face and telephone contact within and outside of the Agency. Writing will include reports, formal letters, memos and e-mail.

The student will earn $10.31 an hour. Parking is not provided. The working location is the Keystone Building, 400 North Street, Harrisburg (downtown one block from the Capitol). We are looking for a college student to start work this September 2004. It's possibly that the same intern if interested could continue to work until June 2005. It is also possible we might have an intern vacancy for the January through June 2005 period. The work hours are flexible as the intern can work any number of hours between 7:30AM to 4:30PM and can work whatever days they choose.

Any full time student who is interested please fax your resume to Tom Schumacher at (717) 705-1558. Resumes not used for this position will be forwarded to PENN DOTs Bureau of Human Resources for possible future intern opportunities in other areas of the Department. It is not a requirement by PENN DOT that the student apply for this internship through the college.

Any questions contact Tom Schumacher at (717) 783-9672 or via e-mail atthschumach@state.pa.us