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Pocketed is hiring a Data Entry Intern for a summer internship!

Pocketed is a rapidly growing software startup that helps businesses across North America access billions of dollars in ‘free money’ through grants, tax credits, and incentives. Were a female-founded, female-led company with a bold vision: to give entrepreneurs the power to create and build businesses without financial barriers. Today, more than 14,000 businesses use Pocketed to access over $100M in grant funding and tax credits to extend their runway and achieve their growth goals. 

As a Data Entry Intern, you will play an important role in accurately adding funding programs to our database. As part of our Database teams, you’ll contribute to the excellence of Pocketed’s proprietary funding database. All your efforts will drive our overall mission of removing financial barriers for entrepreneurs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Entry: Accurately input grant funding information into the database, including grant amounts, deadlines, funding sources, and other relevant details.
• Data Verification: Ensure the accuracy and completeness of data by cross-referencing with source documents and following established protocols.
• Data Maintenance: Use our proprietary database management technology to update and maintain the grant funding database to reflect the latest information, such as new funding opportunities, deadlines, and changes in grant status.
• Quality Assurance: Conduct routine quality checks to identify and correct any errors or inconsistencies in the database.
• Reporting: Generate reports as needed, summarizing key grant funding metrics and trends for internal use.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with team members to ensure seamless integration of grant funding data with other organizational systems and processes.
• Ad-hoc Tasks: Assist with other data-related tasks and projects as assigned by supervisors.

Your Qualifications:

This entry-level opportunity is a great fit for someone looking to contribute to a powerful mission, work alongside a highly engaged team, and create big impact. Recent graduates and current students are encouraged to apply!

• Note: this internship is funded by Canada Summer Jobs. In order to be considered for this role, you must meet Canada Summer Jobs eligibility criteria (detailed in the footnotes of this link).
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel or similar spreadsheet software.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Prior experience with data entry or database management is a plus but not required.

Your Benefits:

In this role you will work closely with a tight-knit founding team to rapidly design and build new generation solutions to real-world problems. As part of our Database team, you will have the full support of our CTO and entire technical team, as well as our CEO and growth team.

More specifically, your benefits will include:

• $18 to $20 per hour, based on your experience
• Vacation, sick days (5 days), and up to 5 bonus company days off (2 days at Christmas, 3 days in the summer).
• Predictable schedule: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (40 hours per week)
• Summer internship (8 weeks long, potential to extend)
• Remote work arrangement (our team is distributed across Canada, but we have an office space in Vancouver if you prefer a change of scenery).
• Structured growth meetings and team meetings (we meet with intention – nobody likes to meet … to meet)
• Annual team gatherings to celebrate all the things!

Does this sound like the right opportunity for you? Apply today!

About Pocketed: Helping businesses across Canada grow & thrive! 

A lack of financial resources is one of the primary reasons businesses fail. With billions of dollars in ‘free money’ (grants & tax credits) available every year to small businesses and start-ups, how is this still possible? The system is broken – and that’s why we built Pocketed. Pocketed helps companies get the capital they need to grow with our intelligent matching platform and funding solutions. Learn more at hellopocketed.io. 

We are a female-founded, female-led company with a strong team. Together, were relentlessly in pursuit of a powerful purpose: eliminating financial barriers for businesses. Were looking for impact-focused people to build with us. 

In the past 3 years, we oversubscribed our alpha launch by more than 500%, achieved a 95/100 Net Promoter Score from alpha users, launched a US pilot, won the 2022 Forum Pitch Competition and e@UBC Peoples Choice award, named a BC Tech TIA Startup Company of the Year, featured in the Globe and Mail, Techcouver, BetaKit, and more, grew revenue almost 5x in 2023, and have helped more than 13,000 companies access over $100M in government funding. 

Pocketed is an Equal Opportunity employer and welcomes everyone to our team. If you need reasonable accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example: she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, etc).

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $18.00-$20.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Work Location: Remote