Co-Op/Intern, Strategic Projects
Riipen
Canada · Remote
CAD 23.5-23.5 / hour
Posted on Jun 19, 2025
Riipen is looking for a Strategic Projects Co-Op/Intern to join our Canadian Ecosystem Team. This role plays a key part in Riipen’s goal to build a scalable work-integrated learning ecosystem supporting Canada’s workforce needs of the future. This role is a great opportunity for a motivated student looking to gain real-world experience in business and partnerships development, government relations, proposal writing, ed-tech, and experiential learning.
During this internship, you will help the team build and foster relationships across Canadian post-secondary institutions and workforce development partners and support the putting in place partnerships which enable the design and launch of work-integrated learning programs that align with the country’s economic, talent and workforce needs.
Your efforts will enable postsecondary and workforce development partners to provide more meaningful experiential learning opportunities that connect learners like you to real-world industry experience, building their professional portfolio irrespective of where they are at in their professional journey: students, mid-career professionals looking to upskill and reskill or newcomers.
This role is fully remote and is open to post-secondary students anywhere in Canada who meet all of the following requirements:
This role is fully remote and is open to post-secondary students anywhere in Canada who meet all of the following requirements:
- Registered as a domestic student in a recognized post-secondary institution
- A Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act
- Legally entitled to work in Canada in accordance with relevant provincial or territorial legislation and regulations. International students are not eligible
- Undertaking a placement that is recognized as work-integrated learning in connection with a course, degree, certificate, diploma, or other recognized program offered by the institution. The placement can be required or optional, for credit or not for credit.
- In a full or part-time program from any program of study
- Department
- Strategic Partnerships
- Employment Type
- Internship
- Location
- Canada - Remote
- Workplace type
- Fully remote
- Compensation
- $23.50 / hour
- Reporting To
- Jillian Murray
Key Responsibilities
Help the team build and deepen a complex network of partnerships from across the Canadian postsecondary and workforce development ecosystem:
- Play a key role in mapping the Canadian postsecondary and workforce development landscape to identify trends and inform new partnership development;
- Inform a deep dive and analysis of federal and provincial government frameworks as they relate to upskilling, reskilling, work-integrated learning and career readiness initiatives;
- Play an instrumental role on the team in the strategic development, building and maintenance of an accurate pipeline of potential partners and funding providers;
- Contribute to revenue targets by prospecting new leads through ecosystem research, landscaping and supporting cold and warm outreach;
- Support the overall development and enhancement of government relations engagement at federal and provincial levels;
- Join calls with prospective partners and clients to capture key insights and assist with follow-up communication and nurturing;
- Build a deep understanding of the Riipen platform and help answer partner questions about the platform and articulate how Riipen can enable their programs;
- Undertake research and draft content to support compelling grant proposals and funding applications to support partnership growth and revenue objectives;
- Manage pipeline and track outreach and ongoing engagement activities and metrics in our CRM (HubSpot).
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Currently enrolled in a post-secondary program (Business, Communications, Education, Public Policy, Political Science or related field);
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills;
- Excellent research and analytical abilities;
- Interest in education, workforce development, or nonprofit/social impact sectors;
- Curious and engaged in the building and enhancement of partnerships crossing the postsecondary, industry and government space;
- Proactive, organized, and detail-oriented with a problem-solving mindset;
- Bilingualism (English/French) is a plus, but not required.
We ask that if you feel like you don’t check all the boxes but have the potential to learn what you don’t know, that you still apply! We believe that diverse teams are high-performing teams and we strive to employ individuals with a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
If this role excites you, we look forward to receiving your application!
Benefits
- 🌐 Fully remote!
- 💻 We will ensure you have a great work-from-home setup
About Riipen
Conceptualized by Dana Stephenson and Dave Savory for their capstone entrepreneurship project at the University of Victoria, Riipen addressed an issue that they faced personally as learners — the challenge of gaining relevant work experience, building a network of possible employers, and then demonstrating their skills to that network in order to find work that would help them start their careers. They were facing the graduation conundrum — You can’t get a job without experience, but you can’t get experience without a job.
Since inception in 2013, Riipen has expanded its reach internationally and has developed a state of the art technology platform that caters and provides significant competitive advantages for organizations and academic institutions while staying true to their original goal of supporting student development. Riipen has enabled 193,000+ students at 590+ post-secondary institutions and training providers to partake in applied learning with 31,000+ companies. All of this leads us to our mission: Eliminate Underemployment.
Our Hiring Process
Stage 1:
Applied
Stage 2:
Review
Stage 3:
Hired