IPIA Skillbridge Opportunity
The program is an entrepreneurial internship, providing education, networking, and resourcing opportunities to establish the participant in future business endeavors with the pole industry.
They will explore business, financial operations, and management within the content of an industry recognized as having fitness, sport, and performing arts components by working within a registered 501c6 trade association.
The IPIA provides a space for all people already doing business in the pole industry or looking to do business in the pole industry to learn and grow regardless of age, race, gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQIA+ status, or body size/shape. Applicants to this program should foster similar ideals of inclusivity.
The goal with this program is to provide insight into a growing industry and set future leaders up for business success after leaving the military. This program provides two main paths. Applicants must specify their preferred path in their application.
- It will either set up participants for success as they open their own businesses in industry.
- Or it will provide participants with critical knowledge so that they can better support existing businesses with necessary skills, joining those businesses as a more senior employee. This will be done through training in all aspects of business from finance to marketing, mentoring, and participating in critical meetings and events using a hybrid in person and virtual approach
To apply for this opportunity:
- Applicants MUST have experience in the pole (pole dance/pole sport/pole fitness), aerial, circus, and/or fitness industries as a teacher, student, and/or performer.
- Applicants MUST have solid writing and communication skills.
- Ideal applicants have experience with WordPress (or are willing to learn) and social media (personal or business) content creation.
- Applicants ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED have taken the Boots to Business B2B course.
Send resume and cover letter/cover email confirming you meet the above criteria to: [email protected]