Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Join us in our mission to empower the youth through social innovation and social entrepreneurship!
The Context
Makesense aims to continuously be a driver for massive, people-driven movements that change the status quo on crucial socio-environmental issues. How? By equipping 500 community leaders in radical collaboration and inspiring 80,000 citizens to action by the end of 2024.
People Operations initiatives contribute to this through its mission by ensuring an optimized experience by bridging the gap between the organization and its employees.
Your Mission
Your position as a People Operations Intern plays a major role in applying Human Resources theories and strategies to enhance employee engagement and productivity. This role involves skills in both human management and development to bridge the gap between the organization and its employees truly.
Through this internship, you will learn to conceptualize and operationalize innovation-focused initiatives on employee engagement, as well as to optimize and create internal systems to improve the organization’s welfare better. You will be coordinating directly with the Executive Director for Programs & Operations of Makesense. Additionally, volunteerism is a much-appreciated trait to have in the organization. After all, what better way to exercise the organization’s mission than making it your own? Overall, you should exercise multiple efforts to ensure that the organization’s goals are appropriately set and later achieved through the lens of the company’s biggest asset – the employees.
Key Responsibilities
Assess business operations to ensure a positive work environment and employee experience through workload audits.
- Conceptualize and create initiatives that encourage employee engagement
- Develops assessment tools to recognize employee work satisfaction
- Schedule consistent meetings with the Executive Director for Programs and Operations in employee forecasting
Assess the well-being of the team based on vacation, sick, and emergency leaves data.
- Monitor and bridge the approval of the requested leaves by the team
- Create monthly audits on the number of leaves taken by the team
- Assess whether the benefits are maximized by everyone in the organization
Ensure that quarterly bills coming from healthcare companies (and other partnered groups) are paid to ensure that the team can maximize their benefits.
- Submit and monitor related documents that will prompt the processing of payment.
- Coordinate with the Accounting Department regarding the monthly disbursement of salary and prompt payment of health benefit bills.
Conduct proper documentation and ensure confidentiality of the organization’s documents.
- Ensure that documents are kept within confidential folders accessed by the Executive Directors and the Accounting Department.
- Update the documents linked in e-folders to ensure these are up-to-date
