Website Presence and Social Media Tools

Positions available: 1-2 computer science students working as a team 60-80 hours Begins in June over 4 weeks. We want to take advantage of the research, strategies, project planning to develop web design development project and communications/PR campaign and further develop our social media reach to new markets. It's our time to grow - how can you help us. The primary focus for the students will be to work with the project teams to implement the new website development requirements to enhance the online presence for managing our Change Management Programs and Green Project Management programs. Implement and integrate new tools for WordPress , social media campaigns and client registration experience. You will be helping manage the roll out of our evolving business for Melnyk Consultancy. We will provide written feedback, assessment for your presentations, planning and innovations. Virtual attendance for the initial meetings, and final presentations and proposals. We are looking for innovative sales approaches that match our diverse clients and markets - bring your talent to the team and help us grow. Complete Communications and PR Campaign Plan and Website Design and Development Project Plan for extending reach of our products to the Canada and North American market, develop a business case and approach for this market -[ make recommendations of viability, innovation and best practice] Website Development - Conducting a needs analysis to determine increased performance of current website and platform is; creating a design proposal including mock-ups, budget, needs-analysis and timeline; building a fully-functioning website for our organization. Expectation for a complete a fully functioning website. Application Development - Selecting the best technologies for creating the application or feature (i.e. a real-time chat function); creating a fully-functioning application with optimal virtual performance and sustainability. Software Evaluation (integration of CRM) - Conducting a needs analysis; researching available options; evaluating the options within the context of our organization's budget, immediate needs, and projected needs. Application Programming Interfaces - Redesigning an existing API to simplify it; changing API technologies; designing a new API; creating or updating public-facing documentation. Creating a recommendation engine; spotting trends in existing data; spotting anomalies in security and key performance metrics, help our organization derive insights to inform decision-making. Real-Time Database - Creating a registration system with basic querying functionality; creating a dashboard to visualize key performance metrics of our organization or tool update. Software development systems and procedures, Software vendor research and evaluation to assist with other process improvement projects. This position will be primarily Virtual

Change Leadership & Project Management Coordination

Our organization is able to offer a project opportunity for 1 - 3 Student Leadership Project or Human Resource Management Graduates. Team Project Management Duties & Responsibilities will include assisting the team document, and coordinate the 5 Riipen Projects to a successful outcome. Gain experience managing a team and implementing an executable project plan. Organize the project tasks: You’ll work with the team to figure out exactly what needs to be done to bring the project to fruition. Assemble the team meetings and document tasks and deliverables : You'll manage team that can help bring the project idea into reality - opportunity to do some recruitment and onboarding of team members. Engaging stakeholders: Stakeholder engagement means working with the people affected by the project to ensure that they understand the coming changes and how the changes will impact them. Managing the money: Projects cost money, and a project manager must be able to put together a project budget, managing how the money is spent and controlling costs. Lead the team: You might be required to coach, train, mentor, and develop the people who work on the project. Leading the team involves setting up and managing collaboration on the team. Manage the handover: Project managers are expected to provide a clear and complete handover to the team who will manage the project going forward or will be working with the output that the project team delivered. Sharpen the Business Administration Processes for Melnyk Consultancy Ltd (Project Management for Change Management Foundations, Change Management Practitioner, Agile Change Management Agent, Certified Local Change Agent and Green Project Management consulting projects). Our goal at the end of this experience is: Strategy - Develop an automated process for registration and virtual assistance for participants of the programs. Implementation plan for delivering the program as we are entering new markets; develop a go-to-delivery strategy for products or services; identify invoicing/payment and grant opportunities. Operations - Recommend sales process improvements, write proposals or redesign website communications or marketing processes; develop improvements to supply chain processes to be more responsive to changes in demand; introduce quality assurance into our internal processes; redesign incentive structures to improve employee performance and engagement. Marketing - Complete a full customer, competitor, market, and environmental analysis; complete a marketing strategy review; design a new marketing strategy (product, place, price, and promotion); conduct overhaul of our branding or communication strategy. Sales - Design a new/improved prospecting process for our sales team; design a new/improved pricing or service structure. Talent - Design a new/improved recruitment process; develop a diversity and inclusion strategy; design a new/improved employee engagement program with survey mechanisms. Finance - Design new/improved accounting processes; identify opportunities to streamline costs. Create presentation decks and assist with presentations to key stakeholders.

Level UP:Enhanced Visual Identity _County of Wetaskiwin

Team of 2 (Individuals) 60 - 80 hours to completed by April 2021 Aim To enhance student awareness , understanding and experience of creating a visual identity that can be used for external and internal communications (brand and tools for newsletters and brochures etc). To provide practical experience with Graphic Design, Visual Identity functions and implementation of . To facilitate increased student awareness in the municipal government and communications of local government in general, and County of Wetaskiwin (WC) in particular. Project (Graphic Design experience required) Complete a series of progressive segments that ultimately provides CW with 1) an enhanced visual identity, 2) sample of refreshed design templates for newsletters and brochures, 3) draft templates with specific tools. Students also complete an ‘assignment learnings’ reflection document on developing a visual identify for the County and building refreshed Design templates for Newsletter and Brochures. Assessment Professional: Following each segment submission the Community Partner will provide practice-oriented constructive comments that may indicate a) the perceived professional value/quality of the submitted work, b) positive reinforcement, and c) opportunities for professional improvement.

HR Policies

Aim To enhance student awareness and understanding of corporate purposes and applications of human resource policies. To provide practical experience with policy development and audit. To facilitate student awareness of municipal employment contexts in general, and Wetaskiwin County (WC) in particular. Assignment Complete a series of progressive segments that ultimately provides WC with 1) a draft policy audit tool, 2) sample audit scores on existing policies, 3) drafts revisions of policies, and 4) comments regarding expected causes or indicators of policy staling. Students also complete an ‘assignment learnings’ reflection document. Assessment Professional: Following each segment submission the Community Partner will provide practice-oriented constructive comments that may indicate a) the perceived professional value/quality of the submitted work, b) positive reinforcement, and c) opportunities for professional improvement.