Dson Connected: Huron Consulting Intern - Summer 2026 (Chicago)

This position is part of the Fall 2025 Job & Internship Drop. Applications open Monday, August 18 at NOON. 

You can view the details now and prepare your materials to apply when it goes live!

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Alexander Bloom ‘11, Senior Associate at Huron Consulting offers to serve as a resource to interested Dickinsonians! Alex can be reached on LinkedIn.

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Please only apply through this Handshake posting. Alex will be reviewing all resumes that are submitted through Handshake. If chosen to move forward, you will receive additional application instructions.

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REGISTER HERE! --->Join us on Thursday, August 21 at noon for an info session featuring current Huron Consulting employees Alex Bloom ‘11 and Alex Rojek ’24. It is VERY HIGHLY recommended that you attend this session if you plan to apply for this position.

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NOTE: The selected student interns will register this experience with Dickinson’s Internship Program (INP). Please contact Dickinson Internship Programs if you have any INP-related questions.

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It is highly recommended that students planning to apply first schedule an appointment with a Career Pathway Advisor to review your materials. Students have until the deadline of September 7 to submit application materials.

PLEASE READ: Application materials include resume and a one-paragraph synopsis (not a cover letter). Please explain A) your interest in Huron, B) the specific practice area(s) you are most interested in, and C) what 1-2 experiences have most prepared you for A and B.

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The Opportunity

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We collaborate with education organizations to develop strategies and implement solutions that enable the transformative change our clients need to own their future. Together, we empower clients to drive innovation, create sustainable funding streams and deliver better student outcomes.

Today, leaders of higher education institutions and academic medical centers are spending too much time reacting to market forces, rather than focusing on the essential priorities that help students, faculty and staff thrive. The most productive path forward requires an intentional approach and innovative thinking, whereby stakeholders across the entire institution rally around a shared vision and embrace the hard work of effecting change.

You’ll help our clients to achieve organizational effectiveness, improve student outcomes, implement new technologies and align resources and investments to ensure long-term sustainability.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Position Summary

Huron is a global professional services firm that collaborates with clients to put possible into practice by creating sound strategies, optimizing operations, accelerating digital transformation, and empowering business and their people to own their future. By embracing diverse perspectives, encouraging new ideas, and challenging the status quo, we create sustainable results for the organizations we serve. 

Our Consulting Intern Industry Areas 

• Digital - As a Digital Consulting Intern, you will work across a variety of industries on technology and technology related projects. Huron Digital is a leader in cloud implementations with significant Oracle, Workday, and Salesforce expertise. We offer inspiring capabilities in Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Business Intelligence, Data Integration, and so much more. 

• Healthcare - As a Healthcare Consulting Intern, you’ll aid our clients to evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment. You’ll have the opportunity to help our clients stabilize business operations today and create tomorrow’s growth by implementing revenue enhancement and cost containment programs, upgrading technology systems, creating stronger leaders, and improving outcomes for patients. 

• Education and Research - Research Enterprise Solutions - As a Research Enterprise Solutions Consulting Intern, you’ll learn best practices in research areas including research compliance and risk management, operations performance improvement, technology implementations support, strategy and financial planning, and interim staffing management. You’ll play an integral role in ensuring clients are able to improve business processes and utilize technology to drive efficiency within the research administration space. 

• Education and Research - Strategy & Operations - As a Strategy & Operations Consulting Intern, you’ll help institutions across Higher Education turn challenges of today into the opportunities of tomorrow. You’ll use innovative problem solving and analytical thinking to shape client’s organizational strategy, improve financial operations, and enhance administrative efficiencies. You’ll play an integral part in helping institutions innovate for success and better serve their students, staff, and communities. 

Intern Role & Responsibilities

Our Interns join us from a wide range of backgrounds and make an immediate impact working as part of a team committed to developing creative insights, implementing, and designing processes, and driving tangible results. We provide access to the training and coaching you need while you work independently or in group settings to get hands-on experience in building effective relationships and creating solutions for our clients. 

With a solution-oriented approach, you will collaborate with team members to critically think, and problem solve to execute the implementation of effective processes and strategies for clients. As an Intern, you’ll spend your summer working on a client project with a project team. In addition to client work, you will also get a chance to participate in various team culture initiatives and social events.

Qualifications

Responsibilities may include: 

• Analyzing quantitative and qualitative data and communicating synthesized results to senior internal team members to inform client deliverables
• Collaborating with internal team members during projects, including presenting key takeaways, communicating project updates, and organizing overall project logistics
• Engaging with colleagues across the industry group to develop innovative and industry-leading methodologies that better serve our clients
• Attending regular client meetings to identify and analyze key metrics for both internal and client leadership teams

Requirements & Qualifications

• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Advanced or highly proficient in Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office products (e.g. Microsoft Visio and Outlook)
• A consulting role with Huron requires travel to client sites. The nature and frequency of travel will depend on the specific project requirements and client needs.

The compensation for this job is $30/hr. The represents a good faith estimate of the rate that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. 

Huron is fully committed to providing equal employment opportunity to job applicants and employees in recruitment, hiring, employment, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, training, and all other terms and conditions of employment. Huron will not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, religion, veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, creed, citizenship or any other status protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. We endeavor to maintain a drug-free workplace.  

To learn more about Huron, visit www.huronconsultinggroup.com