Consultant Intern

Kaiser Permanente Internship Program

Location:

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: 3495 Piedmont Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30305.

Department Description:

The Strategy and Managerial Consultant team is responsible for designing and solutioning of transformational programs and initiatives for Kaiser Permanente Georgia (KPGA).  In partnership with Business Leaders, the consultants identify and solve issues related to KPGA's most critical strategic challenges across a variety of functional areas (e.g. care management, medical cost reduction, growth, hospital strategy).  

Intern Project(s):

Leverage data analytics, functional area expertise, and stakeholder input to help identify and solve opportunities to capture value and ultimately increase revenue and savings for KPGA. The expectation of this role is to work in an entrepreneurial fashion in order to help generate hypotheses, conduct initial data analysis and evaluate hypothesis, and work with the team to develop predicted timelines for each hypothesis / initiative.

Target Majors:

Business Administration; Math/Statistics; Healthcare Administration; Public Health; Data Science

Target Skills:

Drives innovation, agility and automation through experimentation with new metrics and concepts to track actuals as initiatives move through development to implementation, constantly seeking ways to reduce inefficiencies.

Spearheads development of status update documentation and refinement, taking into account each stakeholder's unique needs and desired visibility level.

Supports value targeting and implementation responsibilities. Conducts data analysis to determine the viability of opportunities, validates & refines hypotheses, drives solutioning, and quantifies hypothesis timelines.

Reports progress, risks and identifies analytics improvements to support remediation of impediments and blockers to the Managerial Consulting Senior Director.

Develops and delivers written and verbal presentations, briefings, and other communications in a compelling, visually driven, concise and informative manner.

Job Summary:

The Intern will gain hands on experience within an assigned department by working in various roles on closely monitored work assignments. The scope and depth of the roles will be appropriate for the organization, and suitable for the Interns educational background, interests, and experience.

• Perform a functional team role in one or more assignments during the internship period.
• Learn the major functions of a departmental assignment through guided hands on work in various areas, and interaction with others.
• Attend and actively participate in internship group meetings, discussions, and events.
• Provide constructive feedback to the department, human resources, and school about how the Kaiser  internship can be enhanced for future interns.