About the Role
The summer internship is an opportunity to experience launching a business firsthand. TILI's summer launch team will be a small group of early-career interns who will support TILI's director in establishing TILI as a digital and real-world presence in the realms of educational consulting, curriculum development, and corporate training. Candidates for the summer launch team should be interested in exploring careers in any of the following areas: business, marketing, education, communications.
Requirements
This Summer, the Office Manager Intern Will:
Learn firsthand what it takes to launch an educational services and corporate training business:
Work with TILI's director to develop a one-year business plan for the launch of People Smart, the consulting arm of TILI's business
Work with TILI's director to develop a three-year business plan for the development, publishing, and sale of a suite of educational curriculum resources
Work with the summer launch team to design the People Smart and TILI websites and marketing materials
Set up a functioning home office for a small business:
research, recommend, and launch digital productivity resources
put in place physical office management systems and processes that will ensure TILI's home office and remote staff function seamlessly
Facilitate networking opportunities that connect TILI's director with potential consultants and creative contributors to TILI's projects:
Control the business calendar
Make business contacts as directed by TILI's director
Handle logistics of networking meetings
The Best Candidate for this Position Is:
A student of business or recent graduate who is interested in gaining the experience of lunching a startup
A person who has excellent ability to research, learn, manage, and teach others to use business software and organizational tools effectively
A competent writer and researcher
A person who takes initiative, communicates effectively, and enjoys working both independently and with others towards a shared goal
Hours, Pay, and Location:
Mon-Thursday: Remote with flexible hours (up to 12 hours worked as required to meet objectives of the role. These hours can be scheduled flexibly around other work or school requirements.)
Friday: TILI Home Office - 8am to 5pm (must be able to provide your own laptop and work in the home office of TILI's director with the summer launch team)
Dates and Pay: June 6th-August 1st - $10/hour (20 hours per week maximum)
Note: A stand-out contributor to the TILI summer launch team may be extended an offer to continue the work of office management, marketing, and logistics on a part-time basis into the 2026-2027 school year.
About the Company
The Instructional Leaders Initiative of Oklahoma (TILI OK) is a start-up educational consulting and curriculum company launching in Tulsa in the summer of 2026. Building on the background of its director, Kara Saunders (K-12 instructional leader), TILI is taking on the advent of Artificial Intelligence through the lens of an educator by asking two pivotal questions:
How can we use AI to provide cutting edge educational interventions that keep teachers (not computers) at the front lines of real-world education?
How can we leverage the "people smart" skills of educators and others in people-forward professions to make people skills the leading professional skills of the future workforce?
TILI and its sister organization, People Smart, will provide educational products and corporate trainings that answer these questions with creativity and humanity.