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 Solutions team is a part of our larger Strategy & Health Solutions team which oversees provider partnerships & network management, health transformation acceleration, innovation, healthcare services, and strategy, planning, and operations functions and responsibilities at Blue Shield of CA. The Clinical Strategy and Programs team leads the organization's clinical and behavioral health strategy. Clinical Strategy and Programs also oversees program management and operations of outsourced clinical programs and vendor relationships, including lifestyle medicine, behavioral health, telehealth, and social determinants of health. The Clinical Strategy and Programs Intern will report to the Principal Program Manager on the Clinical Strategy and Programs team. In this role, you will work cross-functionally to support programs focused on providing members with care and services when and where they need them.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Support initiatives aimed at advancing and aligning the community health strategy and tactical workplan to reduce health disparities among communities
• Work collaboratively with internal and external partners and stakeholders to address identified disparities and improve health quality and outcomes
• Research evidence-based practices and nationally recognized criteria, designing, and recommending opportunities to enhance health equity efforts through scaling best practices, technology platforms or other culturally relevant modes of communication, and insights and perspectives generated by impacted and diverse stakeholders
• Understand data trending across different segments of populations, with consideration for intersectional impacts
• Support cross functional project teams, including defining meeting agenda, leading meetings, capturing meeting notes and following-up on action items

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
• Knowledge of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), Trauma informed Care, and/or Resiliency in community health is a plus

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.