PROJECT SCOPE

Positions available: 3 ( 1 team with 3 students)

Project Description and Scope:

Introduction

The Career Centre is looking for a team of students to create a detailed plan about integrating surveying into our operations and services using past analysis and surveys, as well as the survey strategy mapped earlier

Students would have the opportunity to

-- Automate end-of-term/end-of-year feedback in order to create a continuous feedback loop for the VSE Career Centre that builds year-on-year

- Analyze and understand how to implement and automate surveys into programming

- Speak to professors and the academic counsellors within the BIE program about ways in which surveys could be conducted effectively, and the areas they could be implemented

- Create a surveying strategy plan that details things like types of surveys, time of survey, group to which each survey is sent, survey formats, and ways to conduct survey post mortems

- Communicate regularly with the Director and VSE Career Centre staff via email, in-person and by phone, in a professional manner

- Attend weekly staff meetings to discuss updates and ongoing activities with the VSE Career Centre Director

- Communicate key learnings, takeaways, and insights through debriefs, summary reports, and weekly meetings as well as through updates to the Data Tracking and Reporting Analyst transition manual

- Other duties as required

We’re Looking for Someone Like You If:

- You have a passion for research and operations analysis

- You have the ability to be flexible and adaptable in a dynamic environment

- You have an affinity for project-based work and are able to work independently and in a team

- You have excellent organizational, time management and communications (oral and written) skills

- You have basic office administrative skills and the ability to operate standard office equipment

Must Haves

Skills/knowledge

- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite

- Previous experience with data collection and analysis

- Intermediate knowledge of coding and automating processes

- Previous experience with Qualtrics is an asset

- Strong organizational and time-management skills, as well as an eagerness to learn

- Ability to deal with a diversity of internal stakeholders in a calm, courteous, and effective manner, utilizing strong business acumen

- Resourceful and able to research best practices in a variety of areas

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills in all forms (email, phone, in-person)

- Able to deal with information in a confidential manner and respond with sensitivity

- Equally at ease working independently and in a team environment

- Previous experience conducting research and developing comprehensive research reports (asset)

- Previous experience working with a Career Centre / Coaching field (asset)

- Must be able to work up to 20 hours a week

Student will receive:

- Weekly oversight through prescheduled meetings

- Constant feedback on operations

- Recommendations and potential to return for other projects after completion