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Internship Program Director One Sheeter

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Written by Jonathan Reisch
Updated over a year ago

Process Owner: Maddy Warman & Jonathan Reisch

Last Updated: November 2023

SOP Linked: HERE

Role Description:

You will act as a resource/mentor for interns and program champions. You will be using your growth mindset to continue scaling the program, creating new leadership opportunities for full-time staff and investing in our intern's professional development. You are responsible for maintaining a streamlined program across all departments and ensuring we are always looking for ways to improve the program and taking action on those opportunities.

The main KPIs of this role are:

  • Increase number of interns and intern managers YoY

  • Create new champ roles on the program leadership team

  • Increase number of interns hired on part-time/full-time YoY

  • Ensure program champs are hitting their goals

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work with Bryn LaRue on onboarding/logistics

  • Actively identify areas to improve efficiency, sentiment and participation in the program.

    • Lead the roll out/adoption of new initiatives and have program champions help develop the initiatives

  • Promote the program across the company to increase awareness, excitement and engagement. Consider promotion such as:

    • Giving shoutouts to panel members or champions in the #claps_for_coworkers slack channel

    • Sharing growth stats in #general slack channel

  • Hold program champions accountable to hit their goals

  • Conduct an end of semester analysis and present to executive team

  • Oversee initiatives of all internship program champions, included but not limited to:

    • Recruitment champs “Early Talent Recruiters”

    • Cross-channel development champs

    • Culture champ

    • Onboarding champ

    • EOS project champs

    • Program sentiment champs

    • Intern lite champ

    • Diversity & inclusion champ “Empowering the Future program”

  • Lead:

    • Program orientation

    • Executive and Entry Level panels

Important Resources:

Processes/Scenarios:

  • A new department joins the program

    • Recruitment champ responsibilities

      • Identify hiring manager

        • Get JDs

        • get them added to talenthub

        • Update the hiring managers tab on the master resources spreadsheet with info

      • Get hiring goal of the department

        • Add to department hiring goals tab on the master resources spreadsheet

    • Direct/other responsibilities

      • Identity who all of the managers will be and complete same steps for when new managers start

  • A new leadership role is identified/created

    • Create champ one-sheeter and add to the leadership team tab on the master resources spreadsheet

    • Directors to discuss who they think would be the best fit and reach out to the managers of those individuals to gauge their bandwidth/interest

      • If no one is identified, or those that are identified don’t have the bandwidth/aren’t interested then the next step is announcing the open role during a monthly manager meeting

    • Add them to the champ slack channel

    • Add them to the monthly champ calls

    • Identify the main goal (or KPI to track) for their role


Internship Program Training Director

Role Description:

You will act as a resource/mentor for intern managers. You will be using your growth mindset to continue scaling the program, creating new leadership opportunities for full-time staff and investing in our intern's professional development. You are responsible for maintaining a streamlined program across all departments and ensuring we are always looking for ways to improve the program and taking action on those opportunities.

The main KPIs of this role are:

  • Increase # of superstar intern managers

  • Increase intern manager participation in scheduled trainings

  • Increase number of intern managers to bring on intern PT/FT

  • Increase positive feedback from interns in exit surveys regarding their managers

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure all intern managers and departments are following intern program processes to the best of their ability, address feedback with managers & action plan if they are not

    • Pushing through Asana board, completing development trackers weekly, attending check-in meetings (already scheduled out for them)

  • Lead:

    • Monthly meeting for all intern managers to provide updates and gain feedback with the help of champion leads

    • New intern manager/department onboarding

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