Graduate Student Internship-Remote

There will be a total of 8 Graduate Internships available. We anticipate the projects to be in the following departments:

Providence St. Joseph Health Affirmative Action team is looking to partner with a graduate student intern to support affirmative action efforts for Providence St Vincent Medical Center and join the Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Caregiver Collaborative. Our Affirmative Action team is responsible for training programs, outreach efforts and other positive steps toward affirmative action to recruit and advance qualified minorities, women, people with disabilities and covered veterans. There will also be opportunities to work on projects that require excel or other analytical skills, pull data, review it, provide preliminary summaries, and then work with our affirmative action team to embark on more in-depth analysis.

The Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Caregiver Collaborative leads system-wide DEI initiatives and collaboration efforts within all of Providence. The Intern will focus specifically on helping the Caregiver Resource Group Coordinator to implement CRG events, track activities and report metrics to the system office.

A passion for equal employment initiatives, analytic skills, and/or background knowledge and experience in DEI would be helpful but are not required.

In this position you will assist in the development and implementation of programs that promote and encourage alternative modes of transportation, including parking management, TDM compliance and surveying. This work requires strong independence, initiative, and creativity.

TDM work is about changing habits and engaging employees through outreach activities, commute incentives, and transportation fairs. This work is justified, and programs adapt through data collections and analysis.

As a TDM intern, you will be available to work varied shifts including occasional evenings and weekends for meetings and events. You are motivated to inspire change and bring strong oral and written communication skills, good understanding of excel (smart sheets a plus) and an eye for marketing and promotion.

Preferred (but not required): Urban or Regional Planning majors; outgoing, independent worker, great communication style, problem solve; strong written communication, marketing/social media experience, creative, can do attitude.

Work in the Human Resources department will include:

Preferred, but not required:

The Strategic Management Services Strategic and Business Planning team supports the mission and vision of Providence Oregon by leading and/or assisting in the development of strategic plans, annual planning activities, business plans, Capital allocation support, regional market, and environmental assessments. This work helps to drive the advancement of key strategic and business initiatives.

The department works toward strategic alignment and integration across our ministries. The key objectives of the department are to optimize capacity across existing assets, and position ministries for long term growth. The intern would support this works by helping to:

Preferred skills (but not required):

Providence has committed to becoming carbon negative by 2030. This means we will reduce greenhouse gas emissions from our operations and purchases as much as possible, while working to build climate resilience through an environmental justice lens in the communities we serve. This is an enormous undertaking, the boldest climate goal in US healthcare. We are focusing on understand issues related to environmental justice in the communities we serve and establishing a pathway for addressing them in support we provide to communities.

We seek an intern to explore environmental justice issues in the communities and states Providence serves, from Anchorage, Alaska to Lubbock, Texas. We would like the intern to research current issues, community services and organizations currently in place, and help address needs that remain. We would use this to guide policy development or recommendations in Providence.

The intern would be doing online research, searching literature, potentially reaching out to community partners to learn more about the issues and services. Strong writing skills are needed. The intern would make presentations to our EJ Collaborative to update them on his/her work.

Providence St Joseph Health Oregon is looking to partner with a graduate student intern to support accelerating our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives including our efforts to create increased reach and impact of this important work. This role will support efforts that permeate across our business, talent systems, culture, and community we serve. There will be project management work that requires Excel and/or other analytical skills to pull data, review it, provide preliminary summaries, and then work with our DEI team to embark on more in-depth analysis where needed.

Providence St Joseph Health Oregon Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives connect system-wide offering opportunities to collaborate with Providence System DEI leaders and the Chief DEI Officer, Oregon.

A passion for fostering a culture of inclusion, collaboration, strategy deployment, analytic skills, and/or background knowledge and experience in DEI would be helpful, but not required.