Job Description

Overview

The Innovation Services Department in the Innovation & Technology Division of WorkSafeBC is a small team of business innovation management and technology professionals. Innovation Services is responsible for coordinating synergies across the organization to bring opportunities for innovation forward, collaborating with organizational leaders and stakeholders to increase the innovation adoption capacity of the broader organization to support corporate and divisional strategies.

We are seeking one highly motivated, dynamic, creative candidate to join our team to help organize an organization wide hackathon. This is a unique opportunity to work with a cross- departmental team to manage and deliver an engaging event to all staff.

This is a four month full time student position (extension to eight months is based on performance).

WorkSafeBC has adopted a hybrid model offering opportunities to work remotely and onsite based on the operational needs of the position.

What you'll do

As a business analyst student intern, you will:

• Project manage the annual hackathon event
• Communicate and coordinate event tasks with the cross-department event team
• Report on event timelines and event status
• Conduct retrospectives and capture learnings after event
• Assist project teams to ensure innovation projects are managed, executed, monitored for alignment with corporate strategic priorities
• Communicate findings and recommendations to pertinent stakeholders on innovative initiatives, business and stakeholder impacts and recommendations for successful and sustainable solutions

Your experience and educational background:

• MBA Internship major or specialization in any of the following: Innovation, Consulting, Strategy, or Technology.
• Strong organizational and project management skills to ensure event tasks are planned and completed on time
• Previous work experience is preferred
• Working knowledge in the following areas would be an asset: project management, change management, data analysis, facilitation, innovation process, tools, and methodologies including design thinking, lean start-up, and agile techniques.
• Other required experience: Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

Is this a good fit for you?

Application instructions:

• A cover letter and resume are required.
• Submit all documents in one file (system accepts Word or PDF files).
• The posting will close at 4:30pm on the closing date of the competition.

If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email (SM) at the time you submit your application.

Who are we?

At WorkSafeBC, we're dedicated to promoting safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries and diseases occur, we provide compensation, and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We also work diligently to sustain our workers compensation system for today and future generations. We're honoured to serve the 2.4 million workers and 255,000 registered employers in our province.

WorkSafeBC requires all employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. In implementing the policy, WorkSafeBC will consider its obligations to accommodate those staff who are unable to be vaccinated.

We recognize that our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences, and which reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self. We encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

What's it like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It's challenging, stimulating and hugely rewarding. Our positions offer tremendous diversity and excellent opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important and so are the people we do it for.

WorkSafeBC has adopted a hybrid model offering opportunities to work remotely and onsite based on the operational needs of the position.

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This position is restricted to those legally entitled to work in Canada.

Thank you, in advance, for applying.

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