Shared Services Careers

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking a highly motivated Project & Portfolio Management Intern to support enterprise-wide initiatives during the summer. This role is ideal for a third- or fourth-year undergraduate student interested in project management, business operations, strategic planning, or process improvement, who is detail-oriented, analytically minded and brings strong analytical skills and an interest in enterprise healthcare operations.

The intern will participate in annual portfolio planning activities, support enterprise projects, and assist senior project managers with project activities.

The Details:  This is a full-time remote opportunity. 10-week internship that will run from June 1st through August 7th, 2026.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

In this role, you will gain exposure to core Project and Portfolio Management functions, while providing meaningful support to the team across planning, governance, delivery, and reporting. You will also gain hands-on experience with enterprise tools such as Asana, executive presentation tools, and process mapping software to support portfolio visibility and project execution.

Portfolio Planning & Governance

• Support the annual enterprise portfolio planning process, including initiative intake, prioritization, and documentation.
• Assist in maintaining portfolio artifacts such as proposals, dashboards, and executive summaries.
• Help prepare materials for portfolio governance discussions (e.g., agenda drafts, pre-reads, meeting notes) and organize input from stakeholders.
• Perform basic quality checks on portfolio data (completeness, consistency, and formatting) and flag discrepancies to the portfolio lead.
• Support tracking of cross-initiative dependencies and follow-ups to keep intake and prioritization artifacts current.

Project Management & Delivery Support

• Assist senior project managers on active enterprise projects with planning, coordination, and execution activities.
• Help monitor project health indicators (e.g., milestone status, open actions, key risks/issues) and summarize highlights for weekly updates.
• Support maintenance of project documentation and communications for review by a senior project manager (e.g., status updates, schedules, decision logs, and action items).
• Participate in project meetings and capture notes, decisions, and follow-ups.
• Assist with meeting organization (scheduling, agendas, action-item follow-up) and help ensure owners/dates are documented and tracked.

Process Improvement & Solutioning

• Observe and document current-state processes through diagrams and/or narratives.
• Participate in improvement discussions (retrospectives/lessons learned) and help document actionable recommendations and best practices

Reporting & Analysis

• Prepare project and portfolio reports for leadership and stakeholders.
• Assist with basic data analysis.
• Support development of standardized reporting and dashboards.
• Assist with validating source data used in dashboards/reports (spot checks, trend notes, formatting consistency) to improve reliability of reporting.

Collaboration & Learning

• Work cross-functionally with business, technology, and operations teams, including exposure to executives within the organization.
• Learn and apply standard project management and process improvement methodologies.
• Participate in mentoring and professional development opportunities.
• Demonstrate professionalism in a remote environment, including time management, responsiveness, and confidentiality with sensitive project information.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Enrolled in an accredited college program (entering 3rd or 4th year) with major coursework in Business Administration, Healthcare Administration, Management, Operations, or related field. Coursework or exposure to project management, process improvement, or business analysis is a plus.

What You’ll Gain

• Hands-on experience supporting enterprise projects and portfolio management.
• Mentorship from experienced project and program managers.
• Exposure to how enterprise healthcare organizations prioritize and deliver strategic initiatives as well as portfolio governance, stakeholder communication, and practical reporting/dashboards in an enterprise environment.

• Opportunity to contribute to real projects that impact clinician and operational experience.

PAY RANGE

$17-$20 per hour. Exact pay will be determined based on candidate experience, geographical location, and size/complexity of the program being supported.