What are the responsibilities and job description for the Actuary Services Bachelor's Intern position at Kaiser Permanente?
2025 Summer Internship Program
Location:
This role is scheduled to be 100% remote. While remote, finalists MUST reside in one of the following states to be eligible for employment with Kaiser Permanente: CA, OR, WA, HI, CO, GA, MD, VA, CT, DC, or IL.
Department Description:
We are a growing team delivering new analytical capabilities and engaging with senior leaders who are excited by the work. The Healthcare Economics Team is a diverse and high-performing group with experience from different parts of KP, and from non-KP health plans and delivery systems. This role provides an excellent opportunity for individuals who are passionate about analytics and seeking to develop their skills in a supportive and dynamic team environment. We welcome candidates who are eager to contribute to our mission of driving strategic insights to improve healthcare strategy.
Intern Project(s):
Our work entails healthcare data analysis and interpretation of results for a business audience.
You will be tasked with connecting business unit financial performance with their strategies (spanning care delivery operations, network management, product strategy, etc.).
This role will work closely with senior consultants to facilitate analyses, provide technical support, and assisting in communicating insights.
Projects may include:
- Analyzing membership gain and attrition
- Deep-dives into specific areas of healthcare utilization. The focus could be based in differences in geography, demographics, healthcare conditions, products, etc.
- Variation in healthcare outcomes
- Population Segmentation
Target Majors:
Math/Statistics; Public Health; Data Science; Computer Science
Target Skills:
This role provides an excellent opportunity for individuals who are passionate about analytics and seeking to develop their skills in a supportive and dynamic team environment. We welcome candidates who are eager to contribute to our mission of driving strategic insights to improve healthcare strategy.
Critical skills and experience needed:
• Understanding of healthcare economics and health plan functions
• Technical analytical skills – comfort pulling and analyzing large datasets
• Collaborative mindset with the desire to develop analytic and consultative skills
Job Summary:
Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, youll forge lasting relationships with colleagues across the organization while enjoying the opportunity to grow your experience and hone your expertise on assignments that have real impact. Our interns have worked on everything from analyzing financial software and developing new marketing strategies, to designing mobile apps and helping clinicians improve care delivery. We want you to get the most out of your time here and will give you projects that challenge you to think freely, question thoroughly, and explore deeply.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Contributing to a designated project or initiative to meet a KP business objective.
- Report development and analytics.
- Project management - planning, execution, and measurement.
- Learning new applications needed to complete assignments or support the execution of business objectives.
- Job shadowing in other functional areas.
- Performing additional duties as required.
Qualifications:
- N/A
- Pursuing a bachelors degree or have graduated from an accredited university within the last year.
- High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.
- N/A
- Aptitude to perform data and process analytics and formulating solutions
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
- 3.0 GPA or above.
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships as well as strong interpersonal skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to learn quickly and experience producing high quality work in short periods of time.
