Project Coordinator Bachelor's Intern

Project Coordinator Bachelor's Intern

This internship role is scheduled to be flexible. Please be prepared to spend part of your time working remotely and part of your time working at the following address: 500 NE Multnomah St., Portland, 97232.

Community & Social Health strives to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities by addressing factors impacting total health for our members, within our communities, and in public health systems across the nation. Partnering with public, nonprofit, and private sector entities to improve policies and systems; strengthening community organizations to improve access to quality support services in KP communities; and connecting patients to support services within and outside KP's system.

Provide support for the Medical-Legal Partnership programs in the markets outside of California, focusing on optimizing cross-functional coordination, advancing continuous improvement initiatives, and enhancing internal communication platforms. By strengthening operational efficiency and communication across Community & Social Health, PMGs, and Medical Care Coordination, this work will improve care delivery, streamline patient access to social health interventions, and reinforce organizational efforts to address social determinants of health.

Target majors: Business Administration; Public Health

Target skillset: Organization, excellent written and oral communication skills, proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, and other applications such as Lucid, Adobe .pdf. Public Health background is preferred.

Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.

Essential responsibilities:

• Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.
• Report development and analytics.
• Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.
• Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.
• Job shadowing in other functional areas.
• Performing additional duties as required.

Basic qualifications:

• Pursuing a bachelors degree or have graduated from an accredited university within the last year.
• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

Additional requirements:

• Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions
• Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Preferred qualifications:

• 3.0 GPA or above.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.