People Operations Intern

About Covestack Marketing:

The public relations team writes press releases, pitches reporters and handles crisis communications. Franchise brands use us to run local ads for hundreds of locations at once. We use Asana for projects and Slack for everything else.

About the role:

Get hands-on HR generalist exposure: documentation, attendance tracking, engagement activities and HR analytics in Excel. The company is based in Halifax, Canada. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. The internship is fully remote. Interns join our Halifax team on daily calls and get a named mentor. Expect to work a schedule that overlaps with US Eastern business hours until about noon ET. Most communication happens in Slack, with short video calls when needed.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain employee records in the HRMS (Keka, Zoho People or BambooHR) and Google Sheets
• Build simple HR dashboards in Excel: headcount, attrition, joining and exit trends
• Answer routine employee questions on leave balance and holidays over Slack
• Track attendance and leave data and flag gaps to managers before the payroll cut-off
• Prepare offer letters, appointment letters and experience letters from templates

Who can apply:

• Based in the US for the duration of the internship
• Available 40 hours a week for the full internship
• Currently enrolled in a bachelor's or master's program, graduating 2027 or 2028
• Authorized to work in the US. CPT and OPT candidates are welcome to apply
• Responsive on Slack or email during working hours
• Organised and comfortable with routine documentation work
• Basic understanding of HR functions from coursework: recruitment, onboarding, payroll, labour law
• Ability to keep employee information confidential
• Available 25 to 40 hours a week for 3 to 6 months
• Laptop with MS Office or Google Workspace and stable internet

Duration: 6 months

Start date: Jan 2027

Stipend: $17.50 - $24.00/hr

Perks:

• Flexible hours
• Mentorship from a dedicated buddy and manager
• Return offer opportunities
• Learning and development stipend
• Paid sick time

Duration: 6 months. Start: Jan 2027.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Covestack Marketing.