Website Peabody Essex Museum
Summary
Hoping to apply your Finance and Accounting skills to a company with a mission? Come to PEM! Our Finance team is seeking an intern to assist with day to day tasks and multiple strategic projects during the Summer of 2026.
Summer is a great time to join the finance team at PEM. We are optimizing multiple new systems and closing our fiscal year. An intern in our department will get exposure to the daily life of the Finance team and will get first hand experience working in the nerve center of a nonprofit that reaches Salem, New England, and beyond!
Key Details
- Schedule: 10 weeks (18 hours onsite per week)
- Dates: June 11 – August 24, 2026
- Orientation: Thursday, June 11, 2026, from 10 AM to 4 PM
Deadline: March 15, 2026
Eligibility
- Undergraduate or graduate accounting students are encouraged to apply.
- Must be ready to learn new systems.
- Organizational and communication skills sufficient to perform necessary tasks of the position.
Compensation
$2,000 stipend
About
The roots of the Peabody Essex Museum date to the 1799 founding of the East India Marine Society, an organization of Salem ship captains and supercargoes. True to the spirit of its past, PEM is dedicated to creating a museum experience that celebrates art and the world in which it was made. By presenting art and culture in new ways, by linking past and present and by embracing artistic and cultural achievements worldwide, the museum offers unique opportunities to explore a multilayered and interconnected world of creative expression. It has the distinction of being the oldest continuously operating and collecting museum in the United States.
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To apply for this job please visit www.pem.org.