2023 Government & Public Services Summer Scholar

Job Description

As a Summer Scholar, you will be an integral member of a client service team, collaborating with diverse and talented team members to help solve multidimensional problems, improve performance, and generate value for our clients. You can capitalize on our cross-industry presence to find your niche and build your individual brand within the organization. This person should have strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to solve complex problems and communicate findings.

Responsibilities

Actuary Summer Scholar

• Builds financial & mathematical models that can improve organizational performance and help clients make informed business decisions.
• Advises clients on complex business problems by interpreting large data sets using statistical methods to quantify risk. 

Business Technology Solutions Summer Scholar

• Interested in various technology landscapes and brings a technology-enabled approach to problem-solving through elegant configurations or amateur hacking.
• From visioning stages through plan execution, this Summer Scholar works to inform clients’ technology decisions, facilitate the scaling of capabilities, and promote the delivery of the organization's vision.
• Utilizes improved business processes and technology-backed performance efficiencies to enhance client impact. 

Business Summer Scholar

• Regularly employs a business-first lens while solving problems and delivering practical solutions to clients.
• Demonstrates a breadth and depth of capabilities (e.g. project management, requirements gathering, data analysis, testing) and is prepared to take on a range of business and organizational challenges and assess the role technology plays.
• Brings effective application knowledge, project management, and delivery approaches to advise, implement, and operate projects. 

Solutions Engineering Summer Scholar

• This Summer Scholar has a pioneer mindset when it comes to technical solutions.
• This Summer Scholar is a tinkerer, problem solver, programmer, and amateur hacker who enjoys applying these skills in their work.
• Enjoys rolling up their sleeves to make things work and isn’t afraid to challenge teammates and clients to push beyond conventional designs and thinking to develop deeper capabilities.
• This Summer Scholar is a future technical architect who wants to code now and in the future. 

Required Qualifications

• Junior standing in a full-time academic program with target graduation dates between December 2023 and August 2024, with an academic area of study in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics, STEM, Engineering, Information Management, Information Systems, Business, Economics, Public Policy, Government, Psychology, Industrial and Labor Relations, Human Resources/Human Resources Management, Operations, Supply Chain, and other Liberal Arts Majors, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and other technical degrees deep in programming languages
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship now or at any time in the future. 
• Ability to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance 
• Strong academic track record with a minimum GPA of 3.2.
• Ability to travel up to 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve.