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About MaRS

MaRS Discovery District (@MaRSDD) in Toronto is the one of the world's largest urban innovation hubs.

MaRS supports promising high-growth companies to scale their businesses globally, while tackling key societal challenges in areas such as Health, Cleantech, Finance, Transportation, AI, and others. In addition to helping start-ups launch, grow and scale, the MaRS community is dedicated to cross-disciplinary collaboration, commercialization of discoveries, and driving ideas to impact.

We are a purpose-driven organization on a mission to make the world a better place through inclusive innovation. This commitment to inclusion, equity and diversity are core to who we are and what we believe and, as such, encourage applications from members of diverse identity groups, including those who have been historically excluded and marginalized. You are welcome at MaRS.

We want you to be as successful throughout our recruitment process as possible. Please get in touch with us if there's anything we can do to make your experience more accessible and inclusive, including accommodations for differing (dis)abilities.

Who We Are Looking For

MaRS interns possess a positive outlook and are smart, curious, energetic and engaged in the world around them. They're independent, but also work well on a team. They are ideas people, always thinking of innovative, new ways to do things. Beyond this, there are specific knowledge and skill requirements for each role, as detailed below.

About The Internship Opportunity With Momentum

The MaRS Momentum program Intern supports program operations through designing, executing, and delivering projects that improve programming our for fast scaling Canadian tech-companies.

The Momentum intern provides logistical and administrative support. This includes communications with ventures, supporting event planning and logistics, and coordinating internal teams to deliver services and advisory to portfolio companies.

Project deliverables in this role include salesforce process maps, data and research focused market overviews, etc.

Responsibilities include:

• CRM Management: Support the Momentum team in managing our CRM system and processes. This includes tasks like cleaning up client data, ensuring the system is up to date with the most relevant information, and taking the initiative to build reports and dashboards to support our team's work.
• Administrative program support: supporting our advisory team (Executives-in-Residence) and program team in delivering MaRS services and resources to ventures clients. This includes support scheduling meetings, communicating follow-up action items and next steps, ensuring work is recorded in CRM and communicated to the program team.
• Program Operations: working with the Momentum team to identify processes that can be improved for greater efficiency and scale. The Momentum intern will be responsible for evaluating, recording and taking initiative to review the way we do our work to identity where there is opportunity for improvement.
• Data projects: Develop and execute on research projects focused on understanding the landscape of Canadian late-stage scale-up tech companies. This includes identifying a research question, cleaning, and analyzing large sets of data, and communicating the insights in a meaningful way.
• Event Management: planning and managing event logistics for online and in person sessions. Support with "day of" event tasks including taking meeting notes, surveying participants, and managing follow-up.

What You Bring

• Enrolled in post-secondary or graduate studies; social sciences, communications, marketing or business is an asset
• Strong organizational and process/project management skills
• Superior interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with personal accountability and commitment to achieving and exceeding goals and objectives
• Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
• Passionate about entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, and innovation with a desire to apply your skills in support of Canadian-based technology companies
• Experience working with large data sets to analyze market size and trends
• Self-motivated and able to work effectively independently and as part of a team
• Strong capabilities in G-Suite and a corporate CRM, preferably Salesforce
• Strong communication skills – oral, written and presentation skills

Working Conditions

MaRS has committed to embracing a hybrid model of work that supports the success of the Organization's strategy and aligns to our business vision, mission and purpose. Interns and employees will have flexibility to choose to work where they will be most productive, reflective of the requirements of their role, while encouraging time spent both at the office and working remotely.

The MaRS Centre at 101 College Street, Toronto is a vibrant, architecturally inspiring complex connected to the subway. In early 2014, MaRS increased its innovation footprint to 1.5 million square feet with the opening of its 20-storey West Tower, making it one of the world's largest innovation hubs!

You'll be provided with the required equipment and necessary communication tools to be able to collaborate effectively with your team and all MaRSians, which is core to our ability to deliver on our mission and values!

Working for a mission-driven organization, you will gain exposure into the MaRS ecosystem, and will have the opportunity to connect with passionate, smart, and engaged teams across MaRS.

The Fine Print

Applicants can either be a 2023 graduate of a post-secondary program or returning to post-secondary studies in Winter 2023.

The internship is a full-time (37.5 hours/week) opportunity and runs September 5 - December 15, 2023.

Deadline to apply: July 20, 2023 @ 11:59pm EDT.

Hourly rate: $24 - $27

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in Canada and reside in Ontario.