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Junior Project Manager

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Yorkville University
Yorkville University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Violet Ferreira Sutherland
Professor
2
Timeline
  • January 24, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 25, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • March 8, 2022
    Experience end
Experience
1 projects wanted
Dates set by experience
Preferred companies
Anywhere
Any
Any industries

Experience scope

Categories
Operations Project management
Skills
project planning business strategy project research project evaluation
Learner goals and capabilities

Looking to elevate your organization, and bring it to the next level? Bring on students from Yorkville University to be your student-consultants, in a project-based experience. These will be first year students in the Introduction to Project Management course (Bachelor of Business Administration degree program).

This course emphasizes the need for linking the strategic plans of organizations to project selection, organizational structures, and the sociocultural and technical dimensions of projects, as well as how a project manager’s focus needs to shift at different stages of a project life cycle.

General Parameters: Virtual student participation (In light of COVID-19 restrictions), supervision of student by organization's personnel, completed Hour Tracking sheet, and end-of-project/participation evaluation.

Learners

Learners
Undergraduate
Any level
25 learners
Project
20 hours per learner
Learners self-assign
Teams of 5
Expected outcomes and deliverables

Deliverables are negotiable, and will seek to align the needs of the students and the organization.

Some final project deliverables might include:

  1. Conduct project related research and develop project charter.
  2. Assist in developing project plans and WBS
  3. Conduct project evaluations and prioritization
Project timeline
  • January 24, 2022
    Experience start
  • January 25, 2022
    Project Scope Meeting
  • March 8, 2022
    Experience end

Project Examples

Requirements

Students in groups of 3-5 will work with your company to identify your needs and provide actionable recommendations, based on their in-depth research and analysis.

Project activities that students can complete may include, but are not limited to:

  1. Conduct research and develop project charter
  2. Project planning and work breakdown structure (WBS)
  3. Develop Roadmaps/Gantt Charts and determine relationships between project activities/task
  4. Task assignments, team collaboration and the development and use of Kanban Boards
  5. Develop Mind Maps and Flowcharts to organize and demonstrate what is reasonably achievable based on project scope and other project constraints,
  6. Create professional project plans (with milestones) and risk evaluation registers,
  7. Create Infographics, Dashboards to communicate project status
  8. Develop/populate/use project execution status progress reports
  9. Using PM built-in algorithms to assist in project evaluation and prioritization

Additional company criteria

Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:

Provide relevant information/data as needed for the project.

What elements of the course would you like to clarify?

What elements of the course seem to be a good fit for your project?

A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.

A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.

Provide an opportunity for students to present their work and receive feedback.