Project Management Office

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Local Grown Salads
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Zale Tabakman
President
(29)
3
Project
Academic experience
120 hours per learner
Learner
Anywhere
Intermediate level

Project scope

Categories
Communications Operations Project management Leadership Product or service launch
Skills
food product development asana communication agile project management marketing project management project management office (pmo) management food safety and sanitation team leadership
Details

Number of positions available: One or more teams with one or more students

We have a project management office. This office is responsible for coordinating and managing different projects/teams within our firm, with the potential to become a "Team Lead" responsible for the whole project management office.

Within our vertical farm, we are constantly developing ourselves and our products. Exemplary projects are coding, marketing, food safety, food research. These projects have team leaders, but there needs to be cohesion between different teams/projects. This is where the projects management office steps in. You would be responsible for overseeing these projects/teams, ensuring the projects go as planned and communicating between the projects/teams.

With other responsibilities like onboarding new interns, maintaining our agile project management and other project coordinators/manager responsibilities.

Skills students will develop:

  • Project management
  • Communication in a virtual environment
  • Familiarity with tools like Discord, Asana and GitLab
  • Taking responsibility
  • Presentation skills for a business environment.

Some example deliverables that students can complete may include, but are not limited to:

  • Communication between teams/projects
  • Maintaining agile project management in Asana
  • Onboarding of new interns
  • Becoming a Team Lead coordinating the office itself

If you would like to apply for to our other projects, then please click on the link below

LGS Projects

Deliverables
No deliverables exist for this project.
Mentorship

Regular daily access

ASANA for project management

Discord for ad-hoc communication.

About the company

Company
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2 - 10 employees
Food & beverage, Agriculture, Manufacturing, Technology, Science

We are an Indoor Vertical Farming company. Check our website http://LocalGrownSalads.com.
We love working with Riipen Students.
We work with students from all around the world. In fact we say that the sun never sets on Local Grown Salads.
(Its true and its a pun on our Indoor Vertical Farming Technology)
We have ongoing relationships with Arizona State University, U of Texas, RMIT in Australia, University Canada West, to name a few..
We work with individuals or teams (typically doing a capstone)

We provide a Virtual work environment using Agile (using JIRA), Discord, AWS, ReTool, React Native, Postgres to name some of our tools.
Zoom, and other tools.
Students can expect
1) Mentoring
2) international Networking
3) An environment to learn and prepare themselves for a career.
3) a reference letter