Trauma and Injury Prevention Intern
Internship Title: Trauma and Injury Prevention Intern
Office/Program Area: Trauma and Injury Prevention
Job Description/Responsibilities:
The Division’s mission is to develop, implement and provide oversight of a statewide comprehensive trauma care system that prevents injuries, saves lives, and improves the care and outcomes of trauma patients. While the Division was formed in 2011, foundational program work started in the early 2000’s and has grown to include the Indiana Trauma Registry, Indiana Violent Death Reporting System (INVDRS), Prescription Drug Overdose (PDO) Team, and numerous other trauma and injury prevention outreach efforts. This intern will be housed with the Trauma Team.
Here is a list of possible responsibilities:
- Attend weekly staff meetings/bi-weekly trauma team meetings
- Attend public health conferences and district trauma meetings
- Assist with creating and updating trauma and injury prevention documentation
- Assist with data cleaning, analyzing, and visualization as needed
- Carry out small-scale research project (if preferred)
Qualifications:
- Candidates must be enrolled in credit hours at a university or in an accredited program or recent graduated student to be considered for this internship opportunity.
- Candidates should possess strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills.
- Candidates must feel comfortable with public speaking.
- Knowledge of public health terminology is preferred (but not required).
- Ability to work in a team environment, with multiple and fluid demands.
- Ability to engage with members of different communities.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint)
- Self-motivated with the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and be detail-oriented.
- Experience using datasets, whether data cleaning or visualization, is preferred.
- Hours are flexible, however a commitment of approximately 15-20 hours/week is preferred.
- GPA Requirements: 3.0 (preferred, but not required)
Essential Functions/Working Environment:
- This intern will work remotely but if the Intern would like, office work can be accommodated.
- The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those a teammate encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Moderate noise (i.e. business office with computers, phone, and printers)
- Ability to work in a confined area (cubicle)
- Ability to sit at a computer for an extended period of time
- Sedentary desk work.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate is regularly required to: stand, sit, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone keyboard
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision requirements due to computer work