HR Intenship in Waltham, MA

Professional Development Assistant (internship)
Commonwealth Financial Network - Waltham, MA
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Is attention to detail one of your great strengths? Do you excel at keeping things organized? Have a clear, effective writing style (with a little creative flair)? We are looking for a bright, hard-working college student to join our Human Resources team, supporting our department’s Professional Development initiative, while also lending a hand to employee communications. The Human Resources department designs and delivers programs, practices, and processes to meet the needs of Commonwealth and its employees. Through innovative and solid people-oriented programs, Commonwealth is able to hire and retain the absolute best talent. As a professional development assistant, your responsibilities would include: Scheduling, coordination, and tracking Updating all training courses in the Learning Management System and the internal SharePoint site Updating course registration procedures for reference sheets and e-mails Working with internal subject matter experts to schedule classes and programs; sending invites and maintaining distribution lists for training programs Sending out evaluation surveys for training courses and archiving old surveys Sending out and tracking all required new employee training Producing the weekly training calendar and weekly food order calendar for Office Services Coordinating administration of Common Knowledge, our orientation program for new employees, by working with Corporate Marketing to update calendars and schedules, inviting presenters, and maintaining participant list Updating training-tracking spreadsheets and metric reports Assisting with training tasks for the team as needed Employee communications Assisting with writing, formatting, and obtaining approvals on a variety of employee-oriented communications (employee events, Giving Back, benefits, training, etc.) Sending a welcome e-mail to all new employees, gathering information from the employee and the manager in order to put together the new employee’s staff bio Taking new employees' photos for PeopleLink, and maintaining the database of pictures Updating and posting open positions on our intranet, public site, and external job boards The ideal candidate would also meet the following requirements: Detail-oriented Excellent organization skills Phenomenal oral and written communication skills Ability to work independently, as well as with a team Strong computer skills Strong multitasking skills—while maintaining focus Excellent customer service skills Please note: This internship is full-time for the months of June, July, and August and 10–15 hours during the semester. A Best Place to Work, a Great Place to Be Commonwealth Financial Network ® , an independent broker/dealer based in Waltham, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California, has been recognized 18 times as a Best Places to Work by such publications as the Boston Globe, the San Diego Business Journal, and Computerworld . Commonwealth Financial Network is an equal opportunity employer.