Allina Health System Office Summer Internship

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Allina Health started a new environmental sustainability program in 2020. This internship would assist with developing the sustainability program, reporting on sustainability metrics, and communicating about the initiatives.

The intern would work directly with the new Sustainability Specialist. The position is part of the Facilities and Real Estate Administration department. The focus is system-wide and works with 12 hospitals and 100+ clinics. An additional focus is Abbott Northwestern Hospital because of the size, complexity and upcoming construction projects.

Location: Internship is remote, with the possibility of occasional on-site visits.

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of interests: Environmental Studies, Environmental Science, Public Health, or similar degree

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Great opportunity to learn about public relations/external communications. Among other tasks, intern will:

• Help monitor news coverage, cultural and industry trends, and social conversations across different digital platforms (news sites, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc.)
• Research reporters and media outlets
• Write materials for press outreach, press releases, social copy, blog posts, and other communication mediums
• Work with social media leads to engage with our audiences across all owned social platforms
• Assist with plans and reports •Schedule and/or approve social posts in publishing platform
• Monitor competitor and partner social feeds
• Writing and material production
• Helps to organize media interviews and interacts with spokespeople.
• Support the development of plans and strategies for proactive public relations
• Provide support to help develop and pitch new story ideas to create media opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned

Fast-paced, fun Public Relations and External Communications team, less than 10 people with government relations and external communications backgrounds

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of interest: Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in PR, Journalism, Communications, Marketing or a related field.

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The Allina Health Cancer Institute Quality and Accreditation team has some major initiatives, including a new accreditation for Radiation Oncology, new certification called Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI), and other quality initiatives.  There are many details to sort through as we do gap analyses related to the standards and measurements.  I would anticipate the intern supporting this work.

The Allina Health Cancer Institute’s Quality and Accreditation team consists of a Director, an Accreditation Manager, and 2 safety & quality advisors.  The Accreditation Manager has an Accreditation Specialist & several cancer registry staff reporting to her.  We are a small group, work well together, and meet as a team regularly.  We work closely with a larger group of leaders, physicians, and healthcare team members within the cancer institute to advance our quality initiatives.  

Location: We will plan that this work will be done remotely, with frequent contact via Teams and Emails; however, may have some opportunity to do in-person.

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus - Healthcare or public health related degree

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As an Internal Audit Intern for Allina Health, you will have the opportunity to assist on a variety of risk-based internal audit projects and perform various audit procedures. You will have the ability to work with a variety of levels within Audit Services and other business areas. In addition, you will be partnered with a mentor to guide your internship and your career.

• Learn audit process from risk assessment to audit planning, audit performance, reporting and follow-up
• Assist with audit planning and work program development
• Perform defined audit procedures, including documentation and testing of controls
• Summarize and communicate results of audit procedures to Internal Audit management and business partners

Additional Qualifications: Currently pursuing a degree in Accounting, Finance, Risk Management, Information/Decision Sciences, Management Information Systems, Information Technology or related field of study

Location: Fully remote

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Working with a team of 25 partnering across geographies and departments including marketing, internal communications, human resources and brand expression.

Monday-Friday, 40 hours working on a variety of Community Engagement projects.

Location: Opportunity will mainly be remote but there may be some on site opportunities throughout the internship.

Additional qualifications: Marketing, communications, public health

SEO & Content Marketing Intern

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The Digital Marketing SEO & Content Marketing intern will play a key role in the following as part of the Digital Marketing team:

• On-going Search Engine Optimization implementations to improve search visibility
• Create keyword research and SEO-driven content briefs
• Collaborate with the Paid Search lead to conduct keyword research and draft campaign copy
• Contribute to developing content marketing plans and strategies, including for the Healthy Set Go blog
• Analyzing data to enhance SEO and content marketing performance
• Identify and help scope for new avenues and opportunities for content marketing

Location: Primarily remote/virtual, with limited in person meetings/team engagements

Additional  Qualifications: Area of interest/degree: Pursuing a degree or has a degree in Marketing, Communications or Business Development/Management

Marketing Strategy - CSL and Consumer Initiatives 

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Join the Allina Health Marketing Strategy team for the summer, and learn on the job through a variety of strategic projects.

Primary work streams and key roles could include:

• Support of 2022 MN United Sponsorship and season activation
• Launch of a Women’s Health birth experience
• Support of Allina Health Cancer Institute 2022 marketing plan
• Conduct competitive monitoring and analysis, in support of priority service lines and projects
•  Process audits and solution development, in support of strategic capability builds

Join the growing Allina Health Marketing Strategy team, and immerse into our fast-paced and passionate team. You will work alongside 2 intermediate and 2senior-level strategists. Learn more about our 5 full-time team members, and their areas of expertise within the Brand Marketing team. 

• Deep-dive into our strategic planning, and integrated marketing process, by supporting end-to-end market planning and execution of campaigns.
• Learn new project management skills, on the job.
• Kick off our long-standing MN United marketing and community sponsorship through support of this season’s community and in-stadium activations
• Partner closely with our digital marketing and brand strategy teams, and work alongside a network of cross-functional marketing and communications teams – including Marketing Operations, Consumer insights, Brand Expression (Creative & Design) and Consumer/Digital Experience, in addition to Internal Communications and PR.

Location: Primarily remote/virtual, with limited in person meetings/team engagements

Additional  Qualifications: Area of interest/degree: Pursuing a degree or has a degree in Marketing, Communications or Business Development/Management

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Intern will be a member of Consumer Experience Strategy team working on projects that support continuous improvement of a differentiated end-to-end consumer experience system-wide & use consumer insights, mainly from patient experience surveys, to understand opportunities and strengths.   The focus on consumer experience spans all channels including digital, in-person, and phone interactions.

Team of seven, highly collaborative culture. Regular partnership with and exposure to other system office teams, clinic and hospital teams.

Location: Remote

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus: Marketing, health care degrees, business, communication

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The intern will support security initiatives including process improvement and risk evaluation. The intern will have the opportunity to work on piloting and implementing technological security solutions. The intern will assess internal and external information to help assess risk to the organization and learn holistic risk mitigation strategies.

The Corporate Security team is comprised of over 250 security professionals dedicated to providing a safe and secure environment for patients, visitors and employees. The intern may work with other teams who focus on security-related functions, including System Operations and IS.

Location: This will likely be a remote opportunity with regular check-ins via Teams. It may include some in-person construction-related meetings where project information can be shared and obtained. Other in-person meetings may include business areas that utilize security risk-related information. 

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of interest: Business, Communications, Health Care, Risk Management or Security Management

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Project will be focused on expense benchmarking and understanding how our operations compare to other organizations around the country. Both manager/mentor have quite a bit of experience working with interns. Lot of freedom to learn about other areas of the department. 

Fairly new team (<1.5 years), building out a new department/function for the organization, get to work with finance, operations, and HR

Location: This role will be a hybrid remote/onsite position, with number of days in the office based on intern preference/department needs/pandemic situation.

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus: Finance, Business, Healthcare Admin (pretty open on this one)

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Great opportunity to learn about public relations/external communications. Among other tasks, intern will:

• Help monitor news coverage, cultural and industry trends, and social conversations across different digital platforms (news sites, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, etc.)
• Research reporters and media outlets
• Write materials for press outreach, press releases, social copy, blog posts, and other communication mediums
• Work with social media leads to engage with our audiences across all owned social platforms
• Assist with plans and reports •Schedule and/or approve social posts in publishing platform
• Monitor competitor and partner social feeds
• Writing and material production
• Helps to organize media interviews and interacts with spokes people.
•  Support the development of plans and strategies for proactive public relations
• Provide support to help develop and pitch new story ideas to create media opportunities.
• Other duties as assigned

Fast-paced, fun Public Relations and Communications team, people with government relations, internal and external communications backgrounds

Additional Qualifications: Working towards a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in PR, Journalism, Communications, Marketing or a related field.

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As member of the Public Affairs team, the Regulatory Affairs Intern will play a role in supporting the public policy lifecycle. This internship will include tracking and analyzing federal regulatory public policy issues, preparing materials for internal stakeholder meetings, database management, note-taking skills, communication of regulatory updates across the health system, and other tasks/duties as needed and assigned.  

By the end of the internship, the intern will have: gained an understanding of the regulatory affairs function within a large health system; experienced and performed regulatory policy analysis using enterprise risk-management principles; developed a greater depth of knowledge of the public policy lifecycle; and will have the opportunity for exposure/shadowing of other department(s).  

The regulatory affairs intern will join a small team of 2 (Manager and Analyst) and will be part of a department of 20 employees, including communications, public relations and government relations. This comprises “Public Affairs” at Allina Health. The intern will primarily interact with the Regulatory Affairs Manager and Regulatory Affairs Analyst.  Strong communication, clear expectations, and asking questions are a few characteristics of our team that have helped us be successful.

Location: Remote or hybrid, depending on policies for return to work at the Commons.

Additional Qualifications:

Degree or Area of Focus: Political Science, Public Administration, Pre-Law, Health Management, Business, Public Health or other related program

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We are a relatively new (created in 2020) Revenue Cycle department that interacts with many operational departments throughout Allina.  We monitor Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and connect with other Revenue Cycle areas and Allina-wide operational departments to insure that Allina’s revenue stream is as healthy and strong as possible.

We are a team of 9.  Very high engagement (EE Engagement score of 98), and a team that has a lot of fun.  This role will require them to collaborate with every member of the team, and each member will provide them with their insight from both their Revenue Cycle experience, and the wide-range of experiences outside of Revenue Cycle.  This role will have high visibility throughout the organization as we meet with many senior leaders throughout the system.

Location: This will be a remote position, as our team is 100% remote.

Safety & Quality has 2 open intern opportunities.

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Experiential learning in safety and quality priorities for Allina health including high reliability, care transitions, employee safety, infection prevention and control and other clinical quality improvement efforts.

Their experience will include attending a variety of clinical, operational and executive meetings, participation in project-based work, and attending trainings in patient and employee safety.

Team includes >130 safety & quality experts across the system in the departments mentioned above. They will be collaborating with man of the teams and leaders across the system. 

Location: Remote & on site combination

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus: Healthcare, public health or related field.

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Strategy, Business Development and Innovation (SBD&I) partners with leaders across Allina Health to identify and drive strategic growth and business development opportunities.  SBD&I provides thought leadership, innovative solutions and process management.  We do this through aligning stakeholders, leading through ambiguity and providing market insights to maximize Allina’s relevancy into the future. 

SBD&I is a small and mighty department of strategists, innovators and business development leaders.  We partner with key stakeholders across the organization, which often includes senior executive leadership.  Additional frequent department partners include health care providers, operations, marketing, data analytics, legal, compliance, human resources and finance.

Our summer intern will participate in w wide variety of projects – this may include projects related to strategic planning, research on the market and competitive landscape, development of strategy reports, and business unit growth implementation activities.

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus: Business background with experience in finance

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As part of their internship, we have various remote work that they will be assigned among the following areas (see below) including their exposure to various supply chain governance committee meetings and other committees that supply chain works closely with (e.g. Population Health; Finance; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; Sustainability).   It would be our intent to get these interns out visiting major suppliers in our marketplace (e.g. Medtronic) as part of their exposure to their supply chains.

• Analytical support to key contract categories requiring new agreements
• Analytical support to understanding key variances of supply expenses from forecasted levels at each hospital site
• Targeted Diversity, Equity and Inclusion work including sustainability
• Supplier Master Data Completion/Clean-Up
  • Add missing information such as TINs
  • Lead times
  • Validate payment terms/methods
  • Clean up duplicate suppliers
• Substitute item repository development
  • Create on central place for all substitutes for item – Assist with entry into Workday possibly
  • Vetting out additional substitutes with key Allina partners
• Concur (Business Expenses) related items
  • Reporting build
  • Tracking/auditing process build .

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We have a wide variety of research and compliance projects for the intern to assist with for different tax types, each of which will include support and training.

Close knit team of seven tax professionals. We communicate throughout the day in this remote environment and laugh a lot. 

This would be an opportunity to see a broad overview of what Allina does on a financial level. Because we handle payroll taxes, sales tax, property tax, minnesotacare taxes, and nonprofit reporting, we are one of the only teams that tracks the whole system for employees, supply chain, patient revenue, real estate and governance. We will take the time to meet with the intern and share the high level background and purpose of each of these tax types and how they fit into Allina's structure. 

Additional Qualifications: An interest in finance, tax accounting, or nonprofit governance 

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Intern would learn about the importance of benefits in creating an employee experience, attraction and retention of employees and building culture. They would get exposure to lots of different kinds of benefits and a unique benefits experience within healthcare being a provider of many benefits. 

Benefits team 7 people.  We are fun and easy going!  We collaborate a lot, but are all responsible for our own projects and moving work forward.  Want a candidate that can take a project and run with it with minimal handholding/micro managing. 

Location: Remote

Additional Qualifications: Degree or area of focus: Benefits, HR, hospital administration