People & Engagement Summer 2024 Internship
erns 2024 People & Engagement Intern Summer Internship Generalist Job Description
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 truly 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 comprehensive approach to diversity, equity, and inclusion combines a focus on our people, processes, and systems with a deep commitment to promoting social justice and health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Great Place to Work, best place to work for LGBTQ equality, leading disability employer, one of the best companies for women to advance, Bay Area’s top companies in volunteering & giving, and one of the world’s most ethical companies. Here at Blue Shield of California, we are striving to make a positive change across our industry and the communities we live in – join us!
About Our Internships
Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with 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 2023 Internship is June 10-August 16, 2024.
Application Timeline:
Now-October 15th: Invitation to complete Pre-Recorded Video Interview
October 15th-filled: 2nd round interviews & offers made.
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 People & Engagement team oversees our organizational development & learning, total rewards and people operations, employee relations, talent acquisition, talent mobility, internal communications, and diversity, equity & inclusion functions, and responsibilities at Blue Shield of California. The People & Engagement intern will report to a people & engagement manager. In this role you will deliver and collaborate on all aspects of process improvement and gain exposure to Blue Shield of California’s leadership development programs, talent mobility programs, and strategic learning initiatives.
In this role, you will:
- Support Blue Shield’s Great Place to Work enterprise activities including developing employee and leader communications, designing and maintaining Shield Central (Intranet) site, planning internal events and analyzing employee engagement survey data
- Tracking and implementing activities as part of the Leadership and Organizational Development team’s Great Place to Work action plan.
- Working with Talent Operations to facilitate workshops, meetings, training, and definition/documentation of processes and procedures within the Talent Organization
- Provide program development and support for our talent pipeline programs.
- Support Blue Shield’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team through DEI related projects.
Your Knowledge and Experience
- Pursuing a bachelor’s degree in human resources, Learning & Development, Communications, Business, or a related field from an accredited college/university
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; excellent business writing skills
- Interns must reside in the state of CA for the duration of the internship
- Strong project planning, detail oriented and analytical skills required.
- Experience leading and working on cross-functional, cross-disciplinary projects required.
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft products and other standard office productivity applications required.
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.