Member Development Research Intern
Job Description
When you intern at Land O'Lakes, you're joining a Fortune 250 agribusiness and food production leader with more than 100 years of operations as a farmer-and member-owned cooperative. With business units spanning crop insight and inputs, animal nutrition, and dairy foods, you will get a hands-on, purpose-driven internship experience.
You'll have opportunities to network with industry leaders, view our state-of-the-art facilities, and be challenged with a business-critical project, all while gaining the skills necessary to be successful as you continue your career trajectory. Launch your career with us by applying to an internship with one of the nation's most well-known cooperatives.
The Member Governance and Shared Services team empowers and enhances the success of our member-owners while furthering the cooperative, by:
Providing innovative, efficient and value-added solutions
Collaborating to deliver exception value to our partners across the enterprise
Developing and advancing the next generation of cooperative leaders.
The team's focus on member engagement and leadership is about enhancing relationships with member-owners by providing comprehensive leader development programs, engaging governance roles and impactful advocacy opportunities with the goal of member-owners taking active roles within the cooperative.
The Member Development Research Intern will work with the Land O'Lakes Member Governance and Shared Services team to analyze and organize our leader development opportunities available for our member-owners. The position will conduct surveys and phone interviews with member-owners to gather insights on preferred development methods and suggested content. They will also analyze how we can offer alternative development options by assessing technology and various tools that can aid in distributing and tracking training programs. The intern will lead a needs analysis where they will be asking multiple internal working groups what development needs they see as critical from their perspective. Once completed with the needs analysis we would like them to map out our current offerings and their intersections with the various groups that members engage with for development. During their various conversations with member-owners and staff, we want the intern to ask questions that help us benchmark our development offerings against other organizations.
This position provides unique opportunities to engage with our member-owners and internal teams that also engage with our member-owners to gain a broad perspective as to how a cooperative can interact with it's member-owners.
Required Education
Undergraduate working on a four-year degree in Education, General Agriculture, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, or Communication degree
At least 2 years of college complete
Required Skills
Must have an interest in learning and development
Desire to work in a fast-paced collaborative work environment.
Interest in food/agriculture industry.
General knowledge and awareness of learning and development.
Strong business writing and speaking skills.
Ability to work independently and successfully prioritize and manage multiple projects at once.
Comfort conductingphone calls and interviews
Experienced user of Microsoft software:PowerPoint, Word, Excel, One Note, Publisher
Compensation: $23/hr
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
When you intern at Land O'Lakes, you're joining a Fortune 250 agribusiness and food production leader with more than 100 years of operations as a farmer-and member-owned cooperative. With business units spanning crop insight and inputs, animal nutrition, and dairy foods, you will get a hands-on, purpose-driven internship experience.
You'll have opportunities to network with industry leaders, view our state-of-the-art facilities, and be challenged with a business-critical project, all while gaining the skills necessary to be successful as you continue your career trajectory. Launch your career with us by applying to an internship with one of the nation's most well-known cooperatives.
The Member Governance and Shared Services team empowers and enhances the success of our member-owners while furthering the cooperative, by:
Providing innovative, efficient and value-added solutions
Collaborating to deliver exception value to our partners across the enterprise
Developing and advancing the next generation of cooperative leaders.
The team's focus on member engagement and leadership is about enhancing relationships with member-owners by providing comprehensive leader development programs, engaging governance roles and impactful advocacy opportunities with the goal of member-owners taking active roles within the cooperative.
The Member Development Research Intern will work with the Land O'Lakes Member Governance and Shared Services team to analyze and organize our leader development opportunities available for our member-owners. The position will conduct surveys and phone interviews with member-owners to gather insights on preferred development methods and suggested content. They will also analyze how we can offer alternative development options by assessing technology and various tools that can aid in distributing and tracking training programs. The intern will lead a needs analysis where they will be asking multiple internal working groups what development needs they see as critical from their perspective. Once completed with the needs analysis we would like them to map out our current offerings and their intersections with the various groups that members engage with for development. During their various conversations with member-owners and staff, we want the intern to ask questions that help us benchmark our development offerings against other organizations.
This position provides unique opportunities to engage with our member-owners and internal teams that also engage with our member-owners to gain a broad perspective as to how a cooperative can interact with it's member-owners.
Required Education
Undergraduate working on a four-year degree in Education, General Agriculture, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, or Communication degree
At least 2 years of college complete
Required Skills
Must have an interest in learning and development
Desire to work in a fast-paced collaborative work environment.
Interest in food/agriculture industry.
General knowledge and awareness of learning and development.
Strong business writing and speaking skills.
Ability to work independently and successfully prioritize and manage multiple projects at once.
Comfort conductingphone calls and interviews
Experienced user of Microsoft software:PowerPoint, Word, Excel, One Note, Publisher
Compensation: $23/hr
About Land O'Lakes, Inc.
Join us and be part of a Fortune 250, farmer- and member-owned cooperative that is reimagining the business of food. We have been named a Top Workplace by Indeed and LinkedIn, and to the TIME 100 Most Influential Companies list.
Benefits for most full-time roles include medical, dental, vision, PTO, life & disability insurance, education assistance, a 401k and a variety of well-being resources. Most part-time employees are eligible for prorated PTO, holiday pay, employee development programs, prorated education assistance, and a 401(k).
Land O'Lakes, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) M/F/Vets/Disabled. The company maintains a drug-free workforce, including post-employment substance abuse testing pursuant to a Drug and Alcohol Policy.
Neither Land O'Lakes, nor its search firms, will ever contact you and ask for confidential information over the phone or in email. If you receive a call or email like this, please do not provide the information being requested.
About Land O'Lakes
A career at Land O’Lakes means working at the heart of the dynamic agriculture and food industries—and helping to solve some of the world’s greatest food challenges. If you know us as “the butter company,” you may be surprised to discover that we’re behind many trusted brands, including Purina®, WinField™ United, Kozy Shack®, Vermont Creamery®, and Philia™, among others. We’re #232 on the Fortune 500 list, with 8,000+ employees doing business in all 50 U.S. states and 50 countries around the world.
From crop inputs that grow into the grain that animals eat, to a final product on a store shelf, Land O’Lakes has a farmer-to-fork view. Pair this with our farmer ownership, and we're uniquely qualified to fulfill our purpose of Feeding Human Progress around the world, while always delivering on our responsibility to our owners. Just as we’ve been doing for nearly 100 years.
Explore a career with Land O’Lakes, and discover why Forbes, Indeed, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and many others have placed us on their best places to work lists.
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