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Business Education Intern
Category: System Administration
Department: SBDC
Locations: All Locations, United States
Posted: Aug 28, 2024
Closes: Open Until Filled
Type: Internship
Position ID: 180468
About Research Foundation for SUNY:
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York (RF) is the largest comprehensive university-connected research foundation in the country.
Our mission is to provide talent, services, and technology that empower SUNY to research, innovate, and transfer discoveries that transform the world's knowledge economy.
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Job Description:
About the Internship
This paid, part-time internship with the Learning Department of the New York Small Business Development Center is designed to provide the student with experience in planning, coordinating, and tracking data on internal professional development opportunities for NYSBDC staff members and external business educational programming for potential, current, and past clients of the NYSBDC statewide. The intern may also assist in educational product development. This work will be performed under the direction of the Coordinator of Learning and Organizational Development from the NYSBDC's Central Office.
About the NYSBDC
The NYSBDC is a network of 20 campus-based centers located across NY State, along with a central office based in Albany. The NYSBDC provides no-cost, high-quality business advising, research, and advocacy services, as well as free and at-cost business education. These services, made possible by funding from the SBA, New York State, and host academic institutions, are offered to the public on a non-discriminatory basis.
About the Learning Department
The NYSBDC Central Office Learning Department provides both internal and external business educational event opportunities. Internal offerings consist of staff professional development webinars and training sessions at the NYSBDC's annual in-person conference. External offerings are business-related webinars open to current and future small business owners and entrepreneurs across New York State. The NYSBDC Central Office Learning Department also creates internal and external educational products.
Cover Letter Instructions
At the NYSBDC, you will join a group of people who are passionate about helping others successfully achieve the dream of business ownership. In your cover letter, please describe at least one personal experience that illustrates why YOU are passionate about business, entrepreneurship, and/or education. Thank you!
Job Duties:
This Learning Department internship is designed to give the intern experience in real-world business education programming competencies. It may also extend into business education product development competencies. The intern will, therefore, assist the Coordinator of Learning and Organizational Development in a variety of tasks related to the following.
Business Education Programming Competencies Addressed in this Internship
- Identify educational needs for target groups (NY's small business owners, NYSBDC staff) by analyzing available data (survey data, current business trends, etc.)
- Locate appropriate presenters (internal, external, partner organizations) to address identified needs
- Coordinate event logistics with presenters and involved partners
- Produce a calendar of educational offerings based on business learning needs and presenter relationships
- Create all necessary supporting materials to deliver and market the scheduled programming through the NYSBDC's established tools and communication channels
- Host and moderate scheduled educational events
- Organize post-event recordings and resources for distribution
- Collect post-event data for continued analysis and reporting
Business Education Product Development Competencies Possibly Addressed in this Internship
Requirements:
Tech Savviness Required!
A successful candidate for this position must be comfortable with technology and learning new software since this position requires the use of several tools, like the following:
- Email, word processing, spreadsheet, and slide presentation software (Microsoft and/or Google)
- File storage systems (Microsoft and/or Google)
- Zoom Webinar
- YouTube Studio
- Canva
- Constant Contact
- Adobe Acrobat
- Claromentis (intranet)
- Neoserra (client management system)
- LearnWorlds (learning management system)
- WordPress (website content management system)
Required Education/Qualifications:
- Open to junior and senior undergraduate and graduate students.
Preferred Education/Qualifications:
- Coursework and/or experience in data entry, collection, analysis, visualization, etc. is a plus
Pay Rate for this position will be $20.00 an hour
Additional Information:
As an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer, The Research Foundation for SUNY will not discriminate in its employment practices due to an applicant's race, color, creed, religion, sex, pregnancy-related conditions, reproductive health decisions, childbirth or related medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, age, national origin or ancestry, marital status, familial status, citizenship, physical and mental disability, prior arrest or conviction record, genetic characteristics/genetic information, predisposition or carrier status, domestic violence victim status, military status or service, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected under federal, state or local law.
The Company will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.
The Research Foundation for the State University of New York is not an agency or instrumentality of the State of New York. Employees of the Research Foundation for the State University of New York are not state employees, do not participate in any state retirement system, and do not receive state fringe benefits. The Research Foundation for the State University of New York operates under a contract with The State University of New York and receives no directly appropriated state funding.
Application Instructions:
Cover Letter Instructions
At the NYSBDC, you will join a group of people who are passionate about helping others successfully achieve the dream of business ownership. In your cover letter, please describe at least one personal experience that illustrates why YOU are passionate about business, entrepreneurship, and/or education. Thank you!
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