Internship : Human Resources Training - Denver

Internship Opportunity

The Office of Employee Development (OED), within the Colorado Department of Transportation Human Resources (HR) Division, seeks a motivated, responsible college student or recent graduate who is pursuing a career in human resources, learning/training, and/or organization/employee development. This part-time collegiate internship aims to provide meaningful experience in the areas of training, learning, and employee development to students with proven academic performance and a strong desire to learn and contribute.

This is a temporary position that is limited to a maximum of 9 months, with no benefits other than sick leave. Temporary employees accrue one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked, capped at 48 hours. Applications will be reviewed as they are received. It's in your best interest to apply as early as possible.

CDOT employees make a difference by providing freedom, connection, and experience to the traveling public, while also keeping them safe. Please visit our careers page to learn about CDOT and how we are making Colorado a great place to live, work and play, now and for the future!

CDOT's strength is our people, and our commitment to our people is to shape, support, and sustain the employee experience, and ultimately, create a supportive workplace where everyone, regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, citizenship status, education, disability, socio-economic status, or any other identity, has the opportunity to thrive.

The internship will serve an important role in helping coordinate training and learning. Key duties can include:

• Learning management system (LMS): Learn the CDOT LMS and serve as an administrator, which includes managing courses; scheduling and monitoring classes; supporting instructors; recording learning after classes are held; producing a wide variety of reports from the system and formatting them for customers; and more
• Tuition and certification reimbursement program: Learn the program and process; receive employee request for reimbursement; process and track requests
• Training administrative support: Support trainers with various tasks, such as: pulling and sending training materials; communication with regional staff in support of training duties, helping maintain the training storage areas; reviewing training materials (e.g., editorial review); and so forth.
• E-Learning and Technical Training: Test e-Learning; participate in development and design reviews; help test e-Learning for content quality, usability and functionality; and build and test data for technical training classes
• Training tool development: Help create tutorials, how-to instructions and practical training tools that the workforce needs.
• Virtual Web Sessions: Support virtual web training delivery by serving as a moderator during live sessions and doing other related training coordination activities
• Training: From time to time, attend training classes led by OED or DMO Training instructors, shadowing trainers and assisting with some training delivery as appropriate
• National Highway Institute Training: Assist with coordination and scheduling of training for classes requested through these programs

Other job duties as assigned.

Expected work schedule is between Monday through Friday. It is anticipated that this role will work approximately 30-35 hours per week. Ability to work in an active, collaborative, team-oriented environment is a must. Use a computer to accomplish everyday work duties. Work can include working remotely via a computer, so the student needs a reliable Wi-Fi connection; CDOT will provide a laptop.

Ability to lift up to 50 lbs. (e.g., boxes of training materials, set up training rooms, etc.)