Member Development Research Intern

When you intern at Land O’Lakes, you're joining a Fortune 250 agribusiness and food production leader with more than 100 years of operations as a farmer-and member-owned cooperative. With business units spanning crop insight and inputs, animal nutrition, and dairy foods, you will get a hands-on, purpose-driven internship experience.

You’ll have opportunities to network with industry leaders, view our state-of-the-art facilities, and be challenged with a business-critical project, all while gaining the skills necessary to be successful as you continue your career trajectory. Launch your career with us by applying to an internship with one of the nation’s most well-known cooperatives.

The Member Governance and Shared Services team empowers and enhances the success of our member-owners while furthering the cooperative, by: 

• Providing innovative, efficient and value-added solutions

• Collaborating to deliver exception value to our partners across the enterprise

• Developing and advancing the next generation of cooperative leaders.

The team’s focus on member engagement and leadership is about enhancing relationships with member-owners by providing comprehensive leader development programs, engaging governance roles and impactful advocacy opportunities with the goal of member-owners taking active roles within the cooperative.

The Member Development Research Intern will work with the Land O’Lakes Member Governance and Shared Services team to analyze and organize our leader development opportunities available for our member-owners. The position will conduct surveys and phoneinterviews with member-owners to gather insights on preferred development methods and suggested content. They will also analyze how we can offer alternative development options by assessing technology and various tools that can aid in distributing and tracking training programs. The intern will lead a needs analysis where they will be asking multiple internal working groups what development needsthey see as critical from their perspective. Once completed with the needs analysis we would like them to map out our current offerings and their intersections with the various groups that members engage with for development. During their various conversations with member-owners and staff, we want the intern to ask questions that help us benchmark our development offerings against other organizations.

This position provides unique opportunities to engage with our member-owners and internal teams that also engage with our member-owners to gain a broad perspective as to how a cooperative can interact with it’s member-owners.

Required Education

• Undergraduate working on a four-year degree in Education, General Agriculture, Human Resources, Organizational Leadership, or Communication degree

• At least 2 years of college complete

Required Skills

• Must have an interest in learning and development

• Desire to work in a fast-paced collaborative work environment.

• Interest in food/agriculture industry.

• General knowledge and awareness of learning and development.

• Strong business writing and speaking skills.

• Ability to work independently and successfully prioritize and manage multiple projects at once.

• Comfort conducting phone calls and interviews

• Experienced user of Microsoft software: PowerPoint, Word, Excel, One Note, Publisher

Compensation: $23/hr