Internship Openings

Company Name:     Paper to Pages
Company Website Address:  n/a

Company Location 20 Congress Street, Bradford, PA
Description of responsibilities:   marketing and promotion activities to target customers; student should have an interest in this type of business (scrapbooking)

Timeframe:   Fall 2009
Pay: unpaid, academic credit only

Description of Business:
Paper to pages is an independently owned business/retail store dealing in scrapbooking supplies and services.

Company Name:     Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce
Company Website Address:   http://www.bradfordchamber.com

Company Location 121 Main Street, Bradford, PA
Description of responsibilities:    
Membership (ie customer) Recruitment and Retention
Marketing Strategy for the Organization and/or specific activities of the organization
Financial Planning/Fundraising/Membership Dues Structure
Event Planning
Community Participation Strategy
Policy and Procedure Manual update
Legislative Advocacy - strategy to communicate to membership
Business Database updates
Website/Email/Social Media Strategies

Timeframe:   year-round
Pay: unpaid, academic credit only

Description of Business:
The largest action-oriented, membership business organization in McKean County and a strong advocate for community development and promotion of regional assets. Services include advertising and promotion, employee benefits such as health insurance, providing tourism, community and relocation information, referrals, distribution of community calendar of events, monthly publication Chamber News, and educational seminars. Networking events encourage the exchange of ideas. The chamber administers the Bradford Gift Certificate program supporting local business. Members receive a free listing including key words on the website and in the directory, brochure distribution, and reduced rates at select educational programs and key events.

Company Name:     Allegheny National Forest Vacation Bureau
Company Website Address:    http://visitANF.com

Company Location:   80 E. Corydon Street, Bradford, PA  
Description of responsibilities:    
As an intern you will be assisting in the development and promotion of local tourism assets. Our mission is to increase the number of visitors, their length of stay and the daily dollar amount they spend within the region.
Daily we work with customer service and website fulfillment. In addition, each intern will have the opportunity to work on one major promotional project, this could include website development and marketing, tracking and fulfillment, brochure design, ad sales, and or the creation and distribution of other promotional materials.
All of our projects and working with creative on web sites, brochures and other promotional materials.

Timeframe:   year-round
Pay: unpaid, academic credit only

Description of Business:
The Allegheny National Forest Vacation Bureau is the official tourism promotion agency for McKean County. We promote travel and tourism development and visitation to McKean County, working under the guidelines of the PA Dept of Travel and Tourism.

We staff two visitor centers, offer free maps & guides, event information and assist with FAM Tours(writers & press visiting the area). As an intern you will be assisting in development and promotion of tourism assets, and working with creative on web sites, brochures and other promotional materials.

Company Name: St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce  
Company Website Address:  www.stmaryschamber.org

Company Location:   St. Marys, PA
Description of responsibilities:  Marketing Special Projects - fireworks, golf outing, Wing Fling, etc 

Timeframe:  Summer 2009
Pay: unpaid, academic credit only

Description of Business:
The St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce is a private, non-profit corporation founded in 1984. A voluntary organization of the business community, the chamber unites more than 350 businesses, groups, and individuals, creating a unique central agency.
The St. Marys Area Chamber of Commerce is committed to supporting business by facilitating the interchange of information and resources for the promotion of economic development and an improved quality of life in our community.

***POSITION FILLED***

Company Name:   Bookkeeping Express

Company Website Address:  http://www.bookkeepingexpress.com/ny/dustin-laurie.aspx  

Company Location:  Cattaraugus County, NY and McKean County, PA

Description of responsibilities:  Direct sales and marketing - making direct contact with our local businesses, dropping off our informational pamphlets, mailings and  following up with e-mails and phone calls.

Timeframe:  Summer 2009, approximately 10 hours per week
Pay: $8-$9 per hour

Description of Business:

Our firm is comprised of professional and certified bookkeepers. Since 1999, we have offered a full range of accounting, tax, and small business consulting services in Cattaraugus County, NY.  Within the past year, we have expanded our service area to include McKean County, Pennsylvania. Our recently opened Bradford office will provide our unique tax, accounting and consulting services to the small businesses in that area.

Company Name: Osram Sylvania

Company Web Site: http://www.sylvania.com

Company Address: 835 Washington Street, St. Marys, PA

Description of Responisibilities: Duties currently include but are not limited to the following:

Normal Job Duties:

Assist with preparation of monthly standard costs and analyze absorption rates.
Determine and analyze monthly standard costs by preparing SAP and Microsoft EXCEL reports in total, by production family, by shipment location, and by strategic business unit for St Marys (STM) and Wellsboro (WB).
Occurs every month end.

Develop and report standard cost allowables for forecasting measures:
Coordinate and conduct review of forecasted demand with Planning Department.
Prepare upload of forecasted production for both STM and WB.
Determine standard allowable for forecast periods by generating SAP reports from forecasted production for both STM and WB.
Prepare WB sales file analyzing change versus budget and prior month forecast by customer type.
Occurs every forecast cycle – typically monthly.

Assist with development and loading of budget standards and actuals:
Prepare various uploads of standard costs as established for budgeted volumes.
Determine standard allowable for budgeted volumes by generating SAP reports and corresponding EXCEL files.
Assist in generation of actual forecasts and account detail analyses.
Occurs in the March – May timeframe; several versions of uploads will be generated.

Assist with generation of repack projects / proposals:
Prepare repack proposals with various scenarios for evaluation.
Determine standard allowable change, labor repack costs, packaging requirements and freight and shrinkage allowances for proposed quantities.
Occurs as required however significant emphasis has been placed on reviewing inventory and repacking where possible so the number of repacks has increased.

Support Planning and Facilities:
Prepare natural gas usage report and calculate daily and cumulative banked gas for Facilities.
Modify shop orders per Planning requirements and updates.
Occurs daily for natural gas updates and weekly for shop order maintenance.
Assist in maintaining accurate and updated insurance and indemnity agreements for Purchasing.

Miscellaneous:

Assist with presentation material development for plant and strategic business unit management.
Provide invoice payment support as needed.
Update reports, charts and graphs used for plant measurement / management.
Assist in preparing documents required for both internal and external audits.
Delete forecast, month-end and miscellaneous PMs from SAP
Prepare key account analysis for management review – weekly, monthly and as needed
Participate in Physical Inventory and / or Audit counts
Setup files for the new fiscal year in September / October
Setup monthly closing files and forecasting files for each cycle
Assist with calculations for various projects, support as needed

Timeframe: On going basis - we typically prefer interns be available for 2 consecutive semesters (summer / fall / spring) and we usually have at least 1 at all times.

Pay: Between $10 - 15 / hour. Hours are flexible depending on students availability / class schedule

Description of Business: Based in Danvers, Mass., the General Lighting unit of OSRAM SYLVANIA manufactures incandescent, fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lamps at seven plants in the United States, Canada and Mexico. It provides general and specialty lighting sales, marketing and distribution services throughout the U.S. to industrial, commercial and retail customers and to original equipment and other lamp manufacturers. This business unit also has a centralized customer support organization located in Westfield, Ind.

The OSRAM SYLVANIA plant located in St. Marys manufactures the majority of the Consumer Lighting incandescent products for the company.

FILLED with 2 marketing students

Company Name: Rouse Estate

Company Website Address: www.rouseestate.org
Company Address: 701 Rouse Ave. Youngsville, PA 16371

Description of responsibilities:
Marketing research. Market Demographics analysis, forecasting. How our market is developing. SWOT analysis. What is our competition.

Timeframe: Spring  2009

Pay: negotiable

Description of Business: (type of work the business does)
Through our facilities, the Rouse Estate provides Skilled Nursing Care, Assisted Living, Personal Care, Short and Long Term Rehabilitation, Specialized Alzheimer’s Care, Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis Support Groups, Child Day Care, Preschool and After School and School Age Programs.

(Preferred)

Other Skills:  Should be comfortable working with various computer software applications

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Conduct research for a bi-state economic development study.