2027 Spring Intern - Population Health Engagement Activation and Operations
Genentech
Summary
The Population Health Center of Excellence is the driving force behind Genentech's work to close care gaps, improve clinical outcomes and ensure our innovations reach more patients in more communities. This role operates within Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) as part of the Population Health Center of Excellence, operationalizing our narrative and ensuring our enterprise-positioning resonates internally and externally with key healthcare stakeholders.
Job description
Department Summary
The Population Health Center of Excellence is the driving force behind Genentech's work to close care gaps, improve clinical outcomes and ensure our innovations reach more patients in more communities. This role operates within Commercial, Medical, and Government Affairs (CMG) as part of the Population Health Center of Excellence, operationalizing our narrative and ensuring our enterprise-positioning resonates internally and externally with key healthcare stakeholders.
The Opportunity
This internship offers a unique vantage point into one of Genentech's most critical strategic initiatives. You will gain deep exposure to the Population Health landscape, sharpen enterprise-level positioning skills, and play a direct role in how Genentech is perceived. You will report to the Engagement Manager and partner closely with Corporate Communications and Population Health leadership.
- Operationalize the Narrative: Take strategic goals and build the tactical how-to; develop toolkits, messaging frameworks, and activation plans that bring the Population Health story to life.
- Drive Multi-Channel Engagement: Design and execute engagement activities that reach diverse audiences, ensuring positioning is compliant, consistent, inspirational, and effective.
- Strategic Positioning: Act as a bridge between the CoE and broader CMG/Enterprise teams to ensure Population Health is integrated into the overarching internal and external identity.
- Measure & Refine: Establish KPIs for engagement success, gathering feedback to continuously sharpen communication tactics.
Program Highlights
- Intensive 12 month, full-time (40 hours per week) paid internship.
- Program start dates are in January (Spring).
- A stipend, based on location, will be provided to help alleviate costs associated with the internship.
- Ownership of challenging and impactful business-critical projects.
- Work with some of the most talented people in the biotechnology industry.
Requirements
- Must be pursuing a Bachelor's Degree (enrolled student), or have attained a Bachelor's Degree (not currently enrolled in a graduate program), or be pursuing a Master's Degree (enrolled student), or have attained a Master's Degree, or be pursuing a PhD (enrolled student), or have attained a PhD
- Required majors: Marketing communications, Strategic Communications, Public Health, Population Health, Corporate or Strategic Communications, Public Affairs, Public Relations or Science related majors
- A Connector: thrives in the matrix and can navigate cross-functional teams to get things done
- A Master Communicator: can take complex information and clinical or scientific concepts and turn them into a story that inspires action
- Multi-Channel Engagement Strategist: knowledge of corporate communications best practices, audience segmentation, and multi-channel content activation across internal and external platforms
- Execution-Oriented: operationalizes and builds the systems behind a successful activation
- Agile & Proactive: comfortable with ambiguity and ready to pivot in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment
Benefits
- Paid internship
- Stipend
- Paid holiday time off
Company overview
Genentech, founded in 1976 and now a member of the Roche Group, is widely recognized as the pioneer of the biotechnology industry. The company has been at the forefront of scientific innovation for nearly 50 years, using human genetic information to develop novel medicines for serious and life-threatening diseases. Genentech's transformational discoveries include the first targeted antibody for cancer and the first medicine for primary progressive multiple sclerosis. With over 10,000 employees, the company operates from its South San Francisco headquarters and maintains a strong focus on oncology, immunology, neuroscience, ophthalmology, and infectious diseases. Genentech continues to pursue groundbreaking science while maintaining its startup spirit within the Roche organization, consistently delivering on its promise to improve patients' lives through innovative biopharmaceutical solutions.