What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Visualization Master's Intern position at Kaiser Permanente?
2025 Summer 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: 1 Kaiser Plaza, Oakland, CA 94612
Department Description:
National Patient Care Services (NPCS) supports all markets across Kaiser Permanente through councils that aim to support our nursing operations: 1. Nursing Workforce and Professional Development, 2. Care transformation and technology, 3. Clinical outcomes and quality (experience, nurse sensitive indicators), 4. Clinical Practice, and 5. Nursing research and EBP (data analytics, financial, patient and nursing outcomes). We provide analytics (dashboards and reports) across our national markets on metrics related to finance, nursing retention, patient outcomes, nurse outcomes, and patient/nurse satisfaction, from national to the medical center level. Nursing Research and EBP are a focus as Magnet Designation is being led by NPCS enterprise-wide.
Intern Project(s):
Updating a visualization tool/ dashboard using PowerBI for executive leaders in projecting financial data for quick interpretation that drives towards action/intervention (e.g., Based on historical HPPD, what can we project into the next pay cycle, OverTime, Break time coverage and pay)
Creating a dashboard on patient outcomes (e.g., falls, HAPI, CAUTI, CLABSI, C diff) from market to medical center level detailed views and quickly see if we meet or don't meet benchmarks and goals and correlations to other outcomes.
Target Majors:
Math/Statistics; Public Health; Healthcare Administration; Data Science; Public Relations and Communications
Target Skills:
Moderate excel skills required.
Experience with PowerBI required.
Experience with Tableau, PowerApps optional.
Ability to clean data in Excel, translate data into something that is visually clear to executive leadership and is actionable in PowerBI (SmartSheet, R, SAS also available).
Job Summary:
Lay the groundwork for a dynamic future with an industry leader. At Kaiser Permanente, you'll 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 graduate degree or have completed a graduate program from an accredited university within the last year.
- Bachelors degree 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.
