Operations Intern
Department Description: The Operations Department primarily oversees designing and implementing organization-wide infrastructure that enables more efficient department workflows, collaboration between departments, hiring processes, and ways to ensure organization’s short and long-term goals are being met. During the Festival, maintenance of organization-wide systems continues to be the Operations Department’s central focus, but in addition, provides general purpose problem-solving support for the rest of staff.
Job Description: The Operations Department is seeking interns to assist in establishing and maintaining systems to enable more efficient communication and record-keeping within and across AFF Departments, collecting and analyzing data to help improve organization efficiency, and implementing solutions that boost AFF staff and department productivity.
Job Responsibilities:
- Assist in compiling data to help understand organization’s system pain-points and derive solutions
- Help implement new department protocols related to Festival preparation and execution
- Work directly with Operations Manager to determine project timelines, plan and execute various data-based projects, research new technological solutions to facilitate better organization workflow, and solve in-the-moment problems leading up to and during the Festival
- Communicate regularly with Operations Manager and all AFF departments related to Operations-based projects
- Assist with IT preparation and maintenance
Interns will get the opportunity to:
- Gain experience in project management, small business information system-building, event management, and IT problem-solving
- Further develop people and collaboration skills
- Build mental grit and problem-solving skills
- Event Production and Event Logistics
Qualifications:
- Systematic problem-solver
- People Skills
- Strong communication skills
- Time management
- Excellent organization skills
- Must have extreme attention to detail
- Ability to stay calm under pressure
- Higher than average understanding of how computers and software work (i.e. Excel formulas or a command line doesn’t scare you)
- Event experience preferred
- Must be able to lift at least 25 lbs.
Timeframe: September 1, 2021 – November 19, 2021