Project Management Internship

Project Management Intern Opportunity

Re-Vision Labs (RVL) was founded with the goal of significantly improving our planet by making values-driven organizations and ideas more culturally, environmentally, and economically sustainable. We work with our client partners to deliver active, collaborative, and powerfully productive people-centered movements and communities. Our offerings center around 5 integrated components: strategic design, social media, community organizing, collaborative technologies, and innovative storytelling. With these, we are helping global organizations and institutions who are major influencers in government, education, global development, finance and climate change to fully develop and then successfully implement their world-changing strategies.
By creating a “For-Benefit” company where we combine the entrepreneurial spirit of a For-Profit with a Non-Profit vision of aligning our unique skills in service to the world, we are changing the face of business and doing it quickly! Check out our website and blog to learn more about RVL and the things we are passionate about. http://re-visionlabs.com/

The Opportunity
Right now we are growing the Re-Vision Labs team and need innovators like you who thrive in a non-traditional, passionate, constantly changing organization. As an RVL Intern, you will be working directly with tenured Partners who lead our Project Management and Service Delivery Labs. RVL internships are unpaid positions. We recognize the value that interns provide to our organization, and aim to be as supportive as possible in your educational endeavors.

We have a three-month managed process for internships at Re-Vision Labs, after which we will evaluate our commitment and choose to continue, advance, or formally end the internship. After that time, many of our interns continue to remain engaged with RVL in formal and informal ways.
Each RVL team member needs to be able to do 3 things within his/her role:
1 - Be a thought leader (e.g. “how can I do project management in a world-changing way?”)
2 - Create standards and processes for how the role contributes most effectively and collaboratively with the entire organization, and
3 - Deliver amazing value in the areas described below.
“Project Management Intern”

Position Summary
RVL is looking for a non-traditional project manager to help champion its world-changing projects, products, and services. This role requires a unique blend of formal project management experience, entrepreneurial spirit, and heartfelt humanism, with attention to detail and the ability to move projects forward despite resource constraints. You will work as a member of RVL’s Project Management Lab to manage all aspects of a project and to ensure the quality and timely delivery of all deliverables.

Your role will vary from project to project, including:

• Coaching the team and the client through each phase of the project from initiation to close-out
• Creating detailed project plans and budgets and assisting with these sections upfront in proposals and Statements of Work
• Representing RVL as the single point of contact with the client, managing scope, expectations, communications, project updates, scheduling, issue resolution and team dynamics
• Analyzing and communicating clear project benefits, measures and metrics. Conducting baseline assessments and close-out comparisons to determine whether project benefits were achieved
• Ensuring all project stakeholders have key information from the project, meetings, brainstorms and data sharing using our collaboration tools and wikis
• Effectively lead internal team as well as outside partners and contractors toward successful project delivery
• Monitor and cultivate each team members’ personal growth throughout engagement
• Help to create a fun project environment

Perks of Working with Us:

• Gain access to key business innovators in Seattle. We are a very well-networked group
• Take part in an innovative, transparent, and rapidly growing start-up company from nearly the ground up
• Gain experience and training delivering projects in the highly marketable areas of social media, community organizing, strategic design and sustainable business planning
• Enjoy a flexible schedule with opportunity for some remote work. Hours TBD dependent on requirements from your institution and/or current employment. Ideally, your internship would be a full-time commitment
• Work in a collaborative community work environment, where multifaceted experience and world-changing dreams are championed

What Kind of Qualifications Might Impress Us?

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Project Management (required)
• A degree or current work toward a degree in Business, Marketing or Communications
• Understanding of a triple bottom line approach to sustainability
• Experience in delivering professional services projects or working within a management consulting firm
• Excellent communication, planning, prioritizing, and organizing skills
• Genuine interest in thought leadership, and experience in an innovative startup environment is a big plus!

It would also be insightful for you to share the following with us:

1. A description of a generic project process including each project phase, key deliverables in that phase and common obstacles that you have experienced. Please include an example of a project plan you’ve created and managed to completion.
2. A description of what a community means to you personally, and why you want experience supporting the project management of world-changing efforts

Apply
If RVL sounds like a place you can really shine, please send an introductory email and your qualifications in any medium you prefer. Résumés are great but creative representations of your skills are appreciated as well. One thing we promise: if you make the effort to contact us, a Founding Partner of the company will review what you send and get back to you.
Thank you!

Torrie Sullivan, Founding Partner
torrie@re-visionlabs.com
http://re-visionlabs.com

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