Health Data Strategy - Summer Internship

About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with experience and exposure to the healthcare industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationships and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.

Our Summer 2025 Internship is June 9th or June 16th through August 15th, 2025.

Application Process and Timeline:

• Now: Actively accepting applications
• November: If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete a Pre-Recorded Video Interview
• November - January: 2nd round interviews & offers extended

As an intern at Blue Shield of California, you will:

• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more

General Requirements:

• Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship
• Hybrid requirements - Preferably live within a 50-mile radius of a BSC office and be available for in-office collaboration 2 times per month
• Must currently be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of the internship, with a graduation date of December 2025 or later

Your Role

The Health Transformation organization is committed to identifying, designing, implementing, evaluating, and launching innovations that transform health. Key to the goal of transforming health is creatively and effectively leveraging data to drive improvement in the delivery of care for our members and to optimize internal operations.

The Health Data Strategy Intern may:

• Support the development of new strategies to acquire clinical data
• Validate and ensure the accuracy and integrity of data received from multiple sources
• Collaborate with Data and Analytics to drive planning and execution to ingest new data types from multiple sources into the Digital Health Record
• Collaborate with cross-organizational stakeholders to support Digital Health data adoption for defined priority use cases
• Support with executive updates, strategy planning, SharePoint restructuring and organization

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Actively pursuing a bachelor's or master's degree in public health, business, health care or related field
• Minimum 1 year of related professional experience, project, or coursework
• Strong communication skills required, particularly writing for publication
• Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of the key synergies necessary among practices, payers, community, populations, and policy leaders to better align health care transformation efforts
• Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo to advance health equity

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $25.00 to $30.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.