Emergent Method seeks a student intern to support a wide range of event planning, coordination, and logistical tasks for the firm’s event team. The ideal candidate is a proactive problem solver with a strong desire to learn, exceptional organizational skills, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while delivering high-quality work.
This internship is based in Baton Rouge and requires availability to work 20-30 hours per week. Please note this internship is designed to start in May and continue beyond the summer, with opportunities for extended involvement based on performance and availability.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Assisting with the planning and execution of events and meetings, including logistics, timelines, and vendor coordination
- Supporting the development and distribution of event materials, such as invitations, agendas, and signage
- Managing attendee lists, RSVPs, and registration processes
- Researching and maintaining databases of venues, suppliers, and vendors
- Providing on-site event support, including setup, check-in, and cleanup
- Assisting with scheduling and preparing materials for internal and external meetings
- Supporting the development of post-event reports, summaries, and feedback analysis
- Collaborating with team members to support event communications and project updates
- Providing general administrative support as needed
Minimum qualifications and expectations include:
- Studying toward a bachelor’s or master’s degree in event management, business, mass communication, public relations, or a related field
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Excellent organizational and multitasking abilities
- Ability to work flexible hours, including occasional evenings and weekends, for events
- Willingness to travel to off-site events as needed and assist with physical event setup and logistics
- Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills with a willingness to “roll up your sleeves” to complete tasks
- Effective time management, interpersonal, and project coordination skills
- Strong work ethic, professionalism, and attention to detail
- In good academic standing
- Involvement in extracurricular activities with demonstrated leadership experience
- Ability to lift and transport materials or equipment for events and drive to off-site locations as needed
- Ability to maintain the strictest confidentiality regarding internal practices, as well as client names, projects, and other information
Background
Emergent Method is a nationally recognized management consulting firm focused on developing and implementing plans, programs, and initiatives that result in transformative impact. We are focused on strengthening the skills, capacity, and resources of our clients to support them in creating unique and valuable experiences for their stakeholders.
With an uncommonly high degree of ownership in the work we do, our team thrives on solving complex challenges, delivering solutions built to last, and driving transformational growth.
We work from the inside out — fully engaged with our client teams and invested in their success. Their most pressing challenges and opportunities become our own. Our flexible, adaptable approach allows us to work seamlessly as trusted advisers, embedded team members, or both, to support client needs, using every engagement as an opportunity to deliver powerful results, together.
Our expertise travels well to all markets and benefits all sectors, allowing us to work wherever there’s a good client fit. Our consultants have significant experience working across a wide range of industries and in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. We successfully work within the bounds of both large-scale projects that may span years as well as short-term, time-sensitive efforts.
Our integrated, interdisciplinary team of consultants brings an expansive range of skillsets and experience to power a broad scope of services and solutions. Whether you are looking to develop or implement a new strategy, brand, marketing or communication campaign, IT system, program, or a unique and innovative project, we stand ready to be your partner.
For more information, visit emergentmethod.com.
Emergent Method and associated entities are equal opportunity employers. We do not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on any legally recognized basis or any protected class under federal, state, or local law.
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What We Do
Emergent Method is a Louisiana-based management consulting firm focused on helping companies and organizations innovate, grow, improve their performance, and achieve their missions.
We do this by bringing people and ideas together to understand opportunities, let ideas emerge and create multi-faceted solutions with results greater than the sum of their parts. We come from backgrounds of solving complex problems and implementing change, working with clients to help navigate shifting landscapes and seize opportunities – including those they had not seen before. From strategic planning and organizational design, to project management and strategic communications, we are dedicated to helping our clients adapt, innovate and grow – pushing systems, agencies, and industries to new heights, while developing strategic, systemic solutions and processes to support those goals.
We opened our doors in 2012, and in 2017, we were honored as Company of the Year by the Greater Baton Rouge Business Report and Junior Achievement, a recognizable benchmark of growth – and we seek the same measures of continuous improvement for the clients we serve. By definition, we are a team dedicated to our clients as they transform, come into being, or become prominent – as they emerge – by supporting organizational growth through systematic planning and action.
