Job Overview
Location
Remote
Job Type
Full-time
Category
Data & Analytics
Date Posted
April 2, 2026
Full Job Description
📋 Description
- • The Intern - Data Analytics role at Government Employees Health Association, Inc. (G.E.H.A) offers a structured summer internship designed to build foundational skills in data analytics within a mission-driven nonprofit serving over two million federal employees, retirees, and their families. This position is critical to supporting G.E.H.A’s goal of empowering health and wellness through data-driven decision making, providing interns with hands-on experience in a real-world healthcare analytics environment while contributing to projects that improve member outcomes and organizational efficiency.
- • Day-to-day responsibilities include performing assigned data analysis and technical design under direct supervision, participating in validating data loads by comparing source and target systems, and using data engineering tools to conduct data quality checks for accuracy, completeness, and consistency. Interns will partner with cloud data engineers and analytics teams to prepare datasets for analytical dashboards, assist in troubleshooting data discrepancies reported by data consumers, and gain understanding of enterprise data management tasks to support a cloud-centric platform. Additional duties involve participating in scrum meetings, daily standups, and design review sessions with the Data & Analytics (D&A) team, communicating findings, blockers, progress, and opportunities for process improvement, and shadowing senior team members to understand enterprise data architecture.
- • The Data & Analytics division at G.E.H.A serves as the central hub for data management and analytics, integrating data from various systems to enable insights for individuals and applications. The team collaborates with business data analysts, data scientists, analytics engineers, managers, and stakeholders to support reporting and data-driven decision making across the organization. G.E.H.A is a nonprofit committed to diversity, inclusion, and innovation, headquartered in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, with a mission to empower federal workers to be healthy and well through personalized, efficient healthcare benefits.
- • Through this internship, the individual will develop core analytical skills, enhance data visualization techniques, improve healthcare data literacy, and gain exposure to real-world projects that contribute to G.E.H.A’s analytic maturity. The rotational structure across analytics teams provides insight into how different groups contribute to the end-to-end analytics process, from gathering business requirements to creating cleaned datasets and performing statistical analysis. This experience builds a strong foundation for future careers in data analytics, particularly within healthcare or mission-driven organizations.
🎯 Requirements
- • Currently enrolled in an accredited undergraduate or graduate program with a focus on information technology or data and analytics.
- • Minimum 3.0 overall GPA.
- • Authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship now or in the future.
- • Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills.
- • Detail-oriented with strong organizational and documentation abilities.
- • Demonstrated initiative both independently and within a team environment.
- • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- • Proficient in Microsoft Office tools (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
- • Interest in healthcare quality, compliance, and accreditation processes.
- • Demonstrated success with process improvement.
🏖️ Benefits
- • Internship runs from June 8, 2026 to August 14, 2026, providing a structured summer experience with clear timelines.
- • Opportunity to rotate through multiple analytics teams, gaining broad exposure to data management, analysis, engineering, and visualization functions.
- • Hands-on experience with real healthcare data projects, including member eligibility modeling, data quality analysis, metric aggregation, and risk score prototyping.
- • Mentorship and shadowing opportunities with senior data professionals to understand enterprise data architecture and industry best practices.
- • Development of technical and professional skills in data cleaning, statistical analysis, visualization, and collaborative workflows using scrum and standup practices.
- • Contribution to meaningful projects that support data-driven decision making and improve G.E.H.A’s analytic maturity and member services.
- • Remote work eligibility with specified home office requirements (high-speed internet, dedicated workspace, HIPAA-compliant environment).
- • Exposure to a mission-driven nonprofit organization committed to diversity, inclusion, and equitable healthcare access for federal employees and retirees.
- • Potential pathway to full-time employment based on performance, business needs, and available headcount (though conversion is not guaranteed).
- • Alignment with G.E.H.A’s Equal Opportunity Employer commitment, ensuring a fair and inclusive hiring process.
Skills & Technologies
Fiber
Junior
Remote
$43k-54k
About Government Employees Health Association, Inc.
Government Employees Health Association, Inc. is a not-for-profit provider of medical and dental insurance for federal civilian employees, retirees, and their dependents under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Established in 1937 and headquartered in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, GEHA offers nationwide PPO and high-deductible health plans, ancillary vision, and pharmacy benefits, processing claims and providing wellness tools through an in-house service center. Coverage is available during open season to active federal workers, annuitants, and eligible family members, with premiums negotiated annually by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
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