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Marketing Specialist

Covid?19 has pushed us to work from home and increase Expand Furniture’s online presence even further; fortunately we have been able to adapt and grow significantly during this period as we were already well positioned as a predominantly online business. An intern will be able to help us with find new platforms to advertise on, generate organic growth and work on the consumer experience. Projects will include daily social media management on multiple platforms. Reaching out to past and present customers for feedback to help optimize our marketing, learn about what customers are looking for for future products and to help increase conversion of sales.

Business / Finance Analyst

Our clients have been drastically affected during Covid with reduced budgets/reduced onsite work/and changes to their projected operational plans. We at Maverick have the benefit of provided additional support to our clients, both private and public, clients. We currently have 6-7 clients looking to expand to 10. An intern will be able to provide business support to over 50 project currently on the way between the 6-7 clients. Interns will provide Maverick with the ability to engage with our clients more effectively by providing back end support to the business and activities currently on the go. Some of the activities interns will facilitate with are; capital raise back end documentation, revenue/pro-forma modelling, research, contributing to corporate deck development, business strategy project management, reporting to the co-founders and clients on business progress prepare various financial analyses, including financial forecasts, budgets, variance analysis, product cost models and summary information for use in management reporting.

Business/Financial Analyst

As an intern, I will play a critical role in the development of Maverick’s business plan. There is a tremendous amount of work required to support their 6-7 files in 2021. From managing communications to assisting with organizing capital raises and business docs, to research on industry and company data, Maverick is a very busy shop that will provide me with access to the emerging venture capital world and e-commerce brand development aspects of the business. I will be able to work together with other staff to drive the baseline and support Maverick’s cofounders so that they can focus on client interactions.

Digital Marketing Student Specialist

At Apples & Oranges Analytics and Marketing, our goal is to work with organizations that create or foster culture, whether that be defined by social, spiritual or ethnic expressions. As the phrase goes, we help people compare all the different types of data they generate to help them make better, more informed business decisions. We are also creating a new program with Community Futures to help entrepreneurs with disabilities navigate the new COVID-19 landscape (Running Start Program). We are offering this service at a reduced rate and are looking to bring on talented marketers to help service the digital marketing needs of our new cohort.

Accounting Project Analyst

LMS Reinforcing Steel Group is a leading independent fabricator and installer of reinforcing steel with operations in BC, AB, and California. LMS has an impressive portfolio of under construction and completed projects. Since inception in 1987, LMS has worked to improve the client experience, and set the industry standard for customer service and productivity on a jobsite. We work hard to enhance teamwork and communication for the overall construction team. The successful candidate will work with our Controller to analyze project and customer accounts for contract and unit rate jobs across all of our operations in order to identify risk areas and areas needing attention.
– Analyze receivable trends
– Identify collection risks
– Reconcile customer accounts
– Review and understand LMS’ process for change orders on lump sum construction projects
– Audit project accounts with respect to change orders

Marketing Coordinator

COVID significantly delayed the launch of our first product, by about 6 months due to packaging manufacturer shut downs and then shipping delays. We were also restricted from doing conventional in person marketing of our food/supplement product. We’re excited to have an intern help us activate a number of marketing opportunities we will be pursuing as we come to market with our new products this summer. We see this as an opportuntity to recover much of the ground we felt we would have covered if it weren’t for the delays caused by COVID.

Anticipated Project Activities:
– Consumer data analysis, both internal and external
– Monitoring Google analytics, Google Ads to optimize digital strategies for direct to consumer sales strategies
– Assisting the head of marketing in producing marketing content and strategies for digital and wholesale channels
– Social media strategy
– Affiliate and influencer marketing strategy and execution

PR Practicum Student

Helping clients rebuild while expanding their internal offering and reach into new industries are the primary challenges facing their company as they move forward. This intern would play a critical role in supporting our clients as they continue to rebuild, restore, and pivot their service offering in this new climate. Client work may include activities such as media relations around service changes, crisis communications to manage internal and external responses to the pandemic, support with social media communications in the new climate, etc.

Market Intelligence Analyst

• Collaborate with the GTM team to gather insights on current trends in the Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner network
• Analyze trends in the ERP market, and research emerging technologies and their application to our key target industries
• Recommend strategies for targeting specific industries and help shape our product messaging
• Coordinate with key stakeholders to execute on new insights and to keep them informed of any findings
• Conduct business research to support partner engagements and industry research to support account planning and new business pursuits
• Collect, update, and present qualitative and quantitative data in a meaningful and accessible way that helps shape partner and product marketing efforts
• Identify topics of interests/opportunities and recommend GTM activities

Systems Specialist

Londre Bodywear has been impacted by covid-19 and has had the opportunity to reflect on how plan for any future storms that need weathering. As the intern, I will help create systems that are pivotal for future risk management. I will help with trend forecasts to ensure accurate inventory and will refine internal systems to plan for company expansion.

Marketing & Business Analyst

BRIMM (Bradshaw Research Initiative for Minerals and Mining) launched our first MiningEd@UBC (https://mining.education) exclusively?online executive micro?certificate program. I will assist BRIMM to develop and implement a direct B2B sales strategy working directly with large mining companies around the province, country and world. I will also develop and implement a strategic marketing plan and intergrade it into the MiningEd@UBC program.

Business & Technology Development Intern

Expand Furniture is an online business but the founders do not have backgrounds in computer science, so we believe a student who is studying business and computer science will be able to help us with some low hanging fruit in terms of efficiencies on our website and making customers more confident with online purchases and increasing conversion with our current website traffic.

Some of the activities will include:
– Researching and adding new plugins
– Assessing and planning website improvements
– A/B testing for optimization
– Helping automate systems
– Finding efficiencies
– Using integration to connect various cloud software
– Google cloud
– Google app script
– Helping develop new online store fronts that connect into our system
-website updates
-new plugins
-optimization
-integration to connect cloud software
-project planning for future website migration to Shopify
-user experience improvement

Accounting Assistant

An intern is important to our organization’s future success as they will give us the opportunity to receive assistance with some of our bigger tasks and projects. An intern also brings with them new, up to date industry concepts, academic knowledge and ideas that may be useful for us to implement within our own organization.

The intern will gain accounting knowledge such as bank reconciliations, expense reports reconciliation, accounts payable (processing invoices, update invoice status, process payments, etc), assisting with aspects of full cycle accounting (depreciation calculation, prepaid amortization, revaluation of foreign currency accounts, etc). The intern will also assist with our internal processes, IT solutions, including SharePoint, improvements to processes etc.