Academic Intern
SUMMARY: The Academic Intern is responsible for offering high quality support with various projects within the department. Essential functions may vary from project management to program level work to more hands-on tactical work as determined by business needs.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties.
- Support projects within the schools, define and refine project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing, scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation of available resources
- Develop and maintain status for executive on-demand reports for all key projects
- Establish and improve operational systems, processes and best practices that help the team run operationally to guarantee product growth
- Conduct regular research to assist with project concept, completion and optimization
- Create, organize and regularly maintain database of research findings and key information as a resource to team
- Publish weekly updates for projects across the team
- Ideate, develop and scale automated workflows
- Prepare presentations and dashboards by gathering, analyzing, and summarizing relevant information
- Researching, benchmarking, analyzing data, and making recommendations that align to strategy
Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no formal supervisory responsibilities.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School Diploma and currently pursuing a degree (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters) or equivalent combination of education and experience
- Proven ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a high visibility and deadline driven environment
- Self- starter with strong team & client success orientation
- Outstanding communication skills - verbal, written and presentation
- Independent problem solver
- Microsoft 365
- Outstanding time management and organization skills
- Ability to clear a background check
Preferred QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with Smartsheets dashboards, workflows and reports a plus
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- This position is virtual and open to residents of the 50 states, D.C.