Center for Cancer Care Impact intern

Are you interested in making a world of difference in cancer care?

Cancer strikes more than 10 million people worldwide each year. As the leading medical society representing doctors who care for people with cancer, the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is committed to conquering cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality care.

Internship Overview:

ASCO is a flexible, high-performance membership organization where employees collaborate to support our mission through evidence, care, and impact. Together with Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation, we foster a culture that prioritizes customer-centricity, emphasizes teamwork, and commits to quality. Our culture, ASCO Works – Our Way of Working, has long enabled workplace flexibility and embraced technology to help us achieve balance.

This is an Alexandria, VA based internship. To learn what it’s like to work at ASCO, click here.

Who we are looking for:

The Center for Cancer Care Impact (CCCI) is looking for a highly motivated intern to support ongoing initiatives. The intern will have opportunity to leverage their expertise and lived experience to develop solutions that will be integrated into the larger portfolio of the Center’s care access, research access and workforce support strategies, in furtherance of ASCO’s mission. and beyond.

Internship activities include:

• Develop Standard Operating Procedures for the Center’s work – for example, budgeting, committee support, and member/patient-facing work.
• Help craft relevant communications.
• Research and report findings on an identified topic(s) to help inform the work of committees managed by CCCI.
• Analyze data and create ad-hoc reports.
• Regularly dedicate time each week to scan for emerging trends.

Required qualifications:

• Currently enrolled in an undergraduate BA/BS degree program, or graduate program, or recently graduated from a 4-year degree program. Candidates must be at least a junior or entering their junior year of college at the start of the internship.
• A passion for impacting cancer care quality.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work along lines of difference.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, independently and with expressed value for collaboration, and flexibility to adapt to changing needs.
• Solid organizational and time management skills.
• Data analytics skills.
• Excellent research skills, with ability to synthesize diverse inputs and information and produce reports and/or presentations on findings.
• Critical thinking skills, and attention to detail.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suite (365 preferred).
• Excellent customer service skills and professionalism.
• Willingness to enhance skills.

Duration: 10 weeks during the summer – June 9, 2025, to August 15, 2025. This internship is 37.5 hours per week.

Compensation: This summer internship position is paid at a rate of $20/hour for actual hours worked. Additionally, ASCO will provide parking or a metro subsidy.

Location: This internship is based in Alexandria, VA and will require working onsite the majority of the time with some offsite work flexibility. Candidates should reside in the D.C. metro area or be able to relocate at their own expense. If you are not able to work at ASCO Headquarters, please do not apply.

ADA/Physical Requirements

Extended periods seated or standing at a desk

High use of computer and other office technology equipment

To apply for this internship, please submit your application online.

The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. It is the policy of the Company to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic information.