Summer Intern - Innovation Project Support
About The Position
This year marks the bold launch of IEEE’s new Office of Innovation—a dynamic engine designed to accelerate how the organization imagines, experiments, and scales the future. Built to ignite creativity across IEEE’s global community, the Office of Innovation will embed modern innovation practices into our culture, operations, and product lifecycles while empowering volunteers and staff to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. This new Office is unlike any function that has existed to- date in IEEE with a focus on driving strategic vision, rapid experimentation, GenAI-powered tools, and cross-organizational collaboration with the focus on IEEE advancing its mission: to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity. Together, we are transforming IEEE into a more agile, future-ready organization—one that doesn’t just keep pace with technological change, but leads it. The Innovation Intern will work with the Office of Innovation to support day-to-day operational, content, research, data, and AI-related activities to help ensure smooth delivery across multiple projects that interact with both internal and external stakeholders. The Innovation Intern will collaborate closely with both internal teams and external stakeholders for organizing requests, and keeping projects and workflows tasks on track. This role will also include partnerships with and the potential creation of synthetic team members.
Requirements
- Growth mindset, insatiable curiosity and excellent listening skills
- Comfort with risk taking, bold thinking and defining structure in unstructured environments
- Comfort with facilitation and leading conversations with stakeholders
- Experience with GenAI tooling and prompt engineering
- Experience with business case development & investment portfolio evaluation
- Familiarity with with design-thinking methodologies
Responsibilities
- Assist with the intake of Innovation projects to strengthen evaluation process
- Conduct external research and analysis on competitive landscape for ideas
- Lead Innovation Hack-a-Thons with the Student and Young Professional Volunteer cohorts
- Build scalable content to enable innovation across the enterprise (e.g. Design-thinking Workshops, Business Case templates, KPI identification toolkits)
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
