About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students experience and exposure to the health professional industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationship 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 2024 Internship is June 10-August 16, 2024.

As interns at Blue Shield of California, interns:
· Participate in impactful projects during their 10-week program
· 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the health care industry, and more
· Are invited to participate in BSC employee events such as Employee Resource Groups, Employee volunteer activities, and more.

Your Role
The Information Technology team oversees our data & analytics, strategic planning & performance, IT infrastructure services, IT shared services, IT applications, and information security functions and responsibilities at Blue Shield. IT is a business partner that provides delivery excellence and leverages technology advancement to ensure Blue Shield is an information-led organization, in a secure, connected healthcare ecosystem. The Information Technology Strategy and Planning Intern will report to the Chief of Staff for the Chief Information Officer. In this role you will be developing strategy frameworks and planning tools that help the Chief Information Officer, their leadership team, and the Information Technology organization execute on Blue Shield’s highest priorities in a focused effective way.

Your work in the Information Technology organization will include:
• Executing on a communications strategy framework that ensures the right audiences get the right message at the right time, from individual contributors in the technology organization to Blue Shield’s board of directors and external audiences
• Developing presentations for the board of directors, operating committee, and strategy committee
• Working with the Information Technology leadership team to execute on Blue Shield’s highest priorities. This includes driving team meetings to their intended purpose and working with team members to make sure appropriate action is completed in a timely manner.

QUALIFICATIONS
Your Knowledge and Experience
• Actively pursuing a bachelor’s or master’s degree communications or business management discipline
• 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
• 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.

ABOUT BLUE SHIELD
Blue Shield of California’s mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.

To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.

Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California’s top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities – join us!

Our Values:
• Honest. We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
• Human. We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
• Courageous. We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.

Our Workplace Model:
Blue Shield of California is dedicated to making work-life balance a reality. Whether you prefer to work in an office or from home, we understand flexibility is more important than ever. That’s why Blue Shield is a hybrid company, offering you the opportunity to decide where you can do your best and most meaningful work.

Two ways of working: Hybrid (our default) and office
• Hybrid – In a business unit approved office a few times per year to 3 days per week, on average
• Office – In a business unit approved office 4+ days a week, on average. If the role you’re applying for is deemed an “Essential Role,” the company has determined that the role can only be performed in a Blue Shield office or in the field and would require your to meet the office worker classification.

Physical Requirements:
Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Due to the current public health emergency in California, Blue Shield employees are almost all working remotely. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
Please click here for further physical requirement detail.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.