Human Resources Work Placement

Number of individual positions available: 1We’re looking for assistance to build our existing HR processes. Depending on the time/number of students, the main focus of the project will be one or more of:- Review our current onboarding and new hire orientation processes and propose recommendations for improvements.- Analyze existing HR policies, identify gaps and outline steps that can be taken to improve the work environment through policy.- Help establish performance evaluation criteria and regular evaluation processes for regular staff (student evaluation processes are in place through funders and/or schools).- Assist in employee engagement surveys.Our goals:- Improve existing HR processes and policies to help ensure the organization meets requirements for diversity, ethics, and training.- Develop a process for performance and salary reviews to ensure staff receive effective feedback and fair compensation.- Develop a process to understand employee engagement.Through this project, it is expected that the student(s) will benefit from:- Acting in a consulting capacity for a dynamic non-profit organization.- Assisting an organization meet its strategic priority of having a secure staff (Priority 1.1 in our 2018-2022 Strategic Plan).- Gaining experience in improving an onboarding process for future employees.- Applying research, analysis, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.- Creating examples of HR policies and evaluation processes that can be shown to potential future employers as examples of work.- Developing employee engagement surveys.- Contributing to a project that is significant to the success of an organization and the wellbeing of its employees.

Hiring Consultancy

Positions available: five studentsIn the past, we have had challenges hiring and retaining top-quality talent. We would like to develop a system to effectively build our workforce. Working with students, we want to overhaul our hiring practices and implement structures best practices. Students should be prepared to:Evaluate our current recruitment and selection procedures.Develop hiring systems and processes, based on best practices and our organizational needs.Consider the use of psychometric tests, assessment exercises, and standardized interview practices.Present a revised hiring methodology for our organization to adopt, with references

Saving Edelweiss Village with Digital tools — Grant and Proposal Writing.

BC's history is in jeopardy.In the early 1900s, the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) employed Swiss mountain guides to take tourists through the mountains in Golden, BC. To make them more comfortable, the CPR constructed six Swiss-style chalets in an assemblage called Edelweiss Village. Since then, Golden BC — and Edelweiss Village — have been a draw for visitors from around the world and a cornerstone of community history.Now, though, the homes making up Edelweiss Village are for sale. Unless we can find a way to preserve them, the history they represent and the stories they hold are doomed to vanish.So, we asked ourselves: how might we tell Edelweiss Village's stories and preserve its history without possessing the buildings?The solutionWe've decided to digitally simulate Edelweiss Village through the years with the help of the Time Machine project.Initiated in Venice, Italy, in 2013, the Time Machine project aims to create "a collective digital information system mapping...economic, social, cultural and geographical evolution across times." It's not a simple slideshow or video simulation — it's a living, breathing digital infrastructure that will let visitors explore the essence of Edelweiss Village at any time, and from anywhere in the world, through technology.Here's our preliminary plan for making the Edelweiss Village Time Machine a reality: https://www.beautiful.ai/player/-Mh-S4fnrWOBfSjaGGlrHow you can helpDigitally preserving six buildings is no small task — we'll need support from organizations with a reverence for history. As a student intrapreneur with the Edelweiss Village Time Machine project: - you'll be responsible for developing a detailed project outline containing a comprehensive list of milestones. - You'll source entities who financially support cultural and/or architectural preservation projects and let them know why they should care about this Golden pillar. - And, you'll get in touch with virtual and augmented reality companies to find the people we can entrust with this precious piece of history.As part of this project, you'll be working with Conexkt — who has been involved with similar projects, like the Valais-Wallis Time Machine, since 2017. Working with Conexkt, you'll have flexibility and independence to exercise your creative visions, support from all sides when you need it and will be surrounded by experts continuously committed to improving themselves and their fields.BC's history is in jeopardy. But you can help save it.HOW MANY STUDENT INTRAPRENEURS WILL THIS PROJECT ACCOMMODATE?2TIME COMMITMENT PER STUDENT/TEMPS DE TRAVAIL PAR ÉTUDIANT: 70 hoursKEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES/TÂCHES ASSOCIÉES AU PROJET:Developing a detailed project outline/strategic planWriting a project/grant proposal for Digital Museums Canada, the Heritage Legacy Fund and Columbia Basin TrustInvestigating and identifying other possible grants who could support this project: Mainly grants focused on digital preservation/building preservation/cultural preservationResearching virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR)Pinpointing, connecting with and requesting quotes from VR and AR companies who could digitize or 3D model the chaletsOutlining an official project budgetIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES/RÔLES/RESPONSABILITÉS:*Market researcherGrant writerProject proposal developerFINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES/LIVRABLES DU PROJET:Project outline/strategic planPitch/grant proposal for Digital Museums Canada Deadline: October 27, 2021 at 5 p.m. EDTPitch/grant proposal for Heritage Legacy Fund: Next intake is in Spring 2022Pitch/grant proposal for Columbia Basin TrustIN WHAT LANGUAGE WILL THIS PROJECT BE PROVIDED/DANS QUELLE LANGUE CE PROJET SERA-T-IL FOURNI: (English/Français)EnglishPROJECT MENTOR NAME/NOM DU MENTOR DU PROJET:Johann Roduit, PhD (co-founder, Conexkt)Alexandre Luyet (co-founder, Conexkt)Brittany Newman (Director, Golden BC Museum)

Building Black Youth Foundation's Fundraising/Grant Writing Project

Building Black Youth Foundation(B.B.Y.F.) Fundraising ProjectTeam size: 5-10 students, or flexibleProject time length: (Tentatively)Feb 14- March 31, 2022 will accept applications after the 14th of Feb. Project Type: Honorarium $1400Project weekly schedule: TBD- Students are required to attend One 40 min mandatory weekly meeting. Meeting hours are between 3:30pm-6:30pm EST/1:30pm-4:30pm MT/12:30pm-3:30pm PDT. Dates TBDProject daily schedule: Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday 1:00pm-8:00pm EST/12:00pm-6:00pm MT/10:00am-5:00pm PDT. Students must be ready, willing and able to participate in project work, communications and meetings during those hours. Our scheduling is flexible and allows for students to complete their work on weekends as well if need be.Project Roles: Students must be able to fill 1 or more rolesFundraising/Donation Procurement CoordinatorFundraising Campaign Management/DevelopmentGrant Writer/Proposal WriterScope: We are looking for a group of students to help implement fundraising tasks, donation procurement, Grant Writing and fundraising campaign development & management, within the following initiatives:Fundraising implementation tasks to raise money.Securing donations from individuals, organizations/businesses, sponsors, investors, etc.Grant writing & procurement. Completing applications for funding opportunities.Fundraising campaign management and development to increase outreachFundraising marketing strategies and implementation including drafting elevator pitches, creating pitch presentations & presenting them.Fundraising/donation communication tasks including outreach to individuals, organizations/businesses to secure donations.Researching sponsor, funding and partnership opportunities.Drafting guidelines for resolving inquiries developing strategies to improve outreach capabilities.Lead generationSKILLS: communication, problem-solving, teamwork, fundraising, grant writing, marketing, lead generation, researchProject Goals/Deliverables:Securing donations from individuals, organizations/businesses, sponsors & or investorsWriting Grants & completing funding applicationsFundraising campaign development & managementAny other deliverables will be decided and agreed upon with students.Team OrganizationTeam of up to 5, or as many students as possible, with each person assigned to agreed upon deliverables based on skills and experience. The team will have a Project Manager who will interact with the BBYF’s Project Manager.TimeframeTarget start date: TBD- This is an ongoing project End Date: TBD- This is an ongoing projectCommunicationWe will plan to communicate with our virtual interns using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, ZOOM, Email, Slack, phone/text, etc..Student's primary contact: Tasha FlemmingsJob title: Senior Project Manager/CEOSecondary contact: TBD shortly,Job Title: Project Manager

Spot On Digital Marketing - Marketing Project

PROJECT DESCRIPTION/:We are a growing digital marketing agency that is focused on helping coaches, speakers and experts implement marketing technology to help them scales and grow their business. Our areas of expertise are Building online courses, marketing automation, email marketing, sales funnels, landing pages and websites. This project is about building and improving the marketing assets of our agencyWe will provide access to online training via DigitalMarketer https://www.digitalmarketer.com/lab-plus/KEY PROJECT ACTIVITIES:Project admin and coordinationContent strategyContent writing for Blog posts, email sequences and social mediaCreation of free reports that can be used to build an email databaseLight graphic design for blog posts and social mediaIDEAL ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES:Project admin and coordinationOnline research and information gathering for the purpose of creating new contentContent writing for blog posts and email marketing. (No previous subject-matter knowledge is needed)Adding content to the various platform we use such as our WordPress website, our marketing automation tool (Keap) and our social media accountsWillingness to learnFINAL PROJECT DELIVERABLES:Several written blog posts that are based on what you learn during the project and online research"Free reports" - PDF files that will be used as a gift to attract lead to sign up for our mailing listWritten Email sequence(s) Automation campaigns build inside our CRM system

Summer Hockey Showcase & Event Planning

Avenue Sports Management is preparing to start planning our girls hockey showcase for the Spring of 2022 and we'd like your help! We're looking for someone who is well organized, creative and interested in project management and event planning to help us plan and prepare for our upcoming events.Avenue Sports Management and it's partners host and coordinate events from ages 10 to 18 year olds, that are male or female student-athletes looking for exposure to Junior Hockey, Ontario Hockey League (OHL), U-Sports and NCAA.Project tasks may include but are not limited to:Creating sponsor slide decksSponsor outreach and engagementBooking ice timesMarketing and promotional materialsSocial media marketingContacting and inviting schools / teamsEvent planningInviting scoutsCoordinating roles / volunteers

Grant and Funding Associate

The primary focus of this project is to research and apply for grant, and other government funding. The student will be responsible for 1- researching applicable funding that our company would be eligible for 2- applying for fundingMuch government funding goes to waste each year because people do not spend time or know about the money available to support businesses. As a small business we suspect there are opportunities to utilize some of this and would like the support of a student to help us understand what is out there and make some applications for funding. The primary purposes of funding: -hire additional students -hire other support workers -get contractor support such as a website designer to give the company a facelift-invest in growth strategies Students will be successful in this project by measuring the number of applicable grants we are eligible for that have been researched, then how many have been applied for and finally how many we have been successful in receiving. Thank you for your interest!

SEO and Social Media Strategy

Our team is looking for a social media marketing wizard who can help us drive more traffic and improve and review social media analytics of our social media and our SEO positioning. The primary project requirements include:Keyword analysis to determine relevant search terms to our organizationA strategy document to outline:Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) requirements to ensure our organization appears on the first page of Google for relevant keywordsSocial media requirements to increase the number of followers/likes and shareOutline current social media analytics Content Calendar Execution: Timely deployment of all our social media content to drive maximum traffic to our siteCreating engaging content for prominent media websitesWorking with tools and programs such as adobe photo shop, adobe programs and othersThis is a great project for students to prove their digital marketing expertise to future employers, as the impact of their work on this project can be easily measured and communicated.