MicroInterns
Business Systems & Operations Intern
- Duration
- 4 weeks
- Project pay
- Paid after trial
- Where
- Remote (UK)
- Apply by
- Open until filled
About the project
MicroInterns is growing across students, employers, Advocates, programmes and project delivery. As we grow, we need to make sure the way we work does not depend on everything being remembered by one person or explained from scratch every time.
You will work on real MicroInterns processes: employer and client onboarding, Advocate referrals, project scoping and pricing, student onboarding and matching, delivery, feedback and verification, payments and commissions, HR, and the internal workflows nobody has had time to write down.
You will not be expected to fix everything. First we want you to understand how things actually work. Then we decide together what needs improving. Sometimes the answer is automation. Sometimes it is a better process, a template, clearer ownership, or removing a step that should never have existed.
We do not want a 150-page report. We want something the team can use. If someone can look at a process and know what needs to happen, who owns it and what happens next, you have done a good job.
What you will do
- Map how a process currently works, end to end
- Identify bottlenecks, duplication and repetitive work
- Create simple SOPs, checklists and templates, and clarify who owns each step
- Research tools, and build or test practical automated workflows where they genuinely help
- Document processes so someone else can actually follow them
This role starts with a trial
Some startups have never run a micro-internship and will not commit to a stranger on a CV alone. So this role opens with a short trial: not a full project, just enough real work to show what you can do. It is capped, and the cap is the promise.
- Trial length
- 1–4 weeks
- Total hours
- 20 hours max
- Each week
- 5–7 hours
If there is a strong fit and a clear project to continue, we agree the scope and the fee, and the work carries on as a paid project.
A trial can never run longer than four weeks or more than 20 hours. Past that, the work is paid.
Who it suits
Someone curious about how businesses work, who thinks logically and is comfortable with ambiguity. You do not need to be a software developer or know every automation platform, but we do expect some practical experience with automation: workflow tools, no-code or low-code, connecting systems, or AI-assisted workflows. What matters is that you can go past saying “this could be automated” and think through how it would actually work.
- Process mapping
- Workflow automation
- No-code tools
- AI-assisted workflows
- Documentation