MetroPlusHealth Summer Internship: IT Desktop Support

MetroPlusHealth provides the highest quality healthcare services to residents of Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island through a comprehensive list of products, including, but not limited to, New York State Medicaid Managed Care, Medicare, Child Health Plus, Exchange, Partnership in Care, MetroPlus Gold, Essential Plan, etc. As a wholly-owned subsidiary of NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest public health system in the United States, MetroPlusHealth's network includes over 27,000 primary care providers, specialists and participating clinics. For more than 30 years, MetroPlusHealth has been committed to building strong relationships with its members and providers to enable New Yorkers to live their healthiest life.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Help Desk Manager, the Service Desk Intern will provide first level troubleshooting support for a variety of computing support issues while ensuring the highest-level customer service. This role will provide day to day support for application, hardware and networking issues.

Join us this summer (June - August) for a highly interactive and engaging internship experience where you get to work alongside various departments to develop your skills and learn more about the health insurance and healthcare industry.

Department Requesting: Undergraduate Student

Interns will also participate in workshops, activities and other events organized by MetroPlusHealth

*Note: This is a paid internship program. Prospective interns must be current students attending an accredited College or University and must be 18 years or older to be considered.

• Acts as the first point of contact for all IT issues, quickly responding customers request for IT service within SLA guidelines.
• Serves as primary support for end user access management requests including new employee technology onboarding, account setups, access changes and terminations. Follows established audit procedures to ensure all employees receive proper access as authorized by their job function.
• Accurately triages and categorizes incidents and requests coming into the Service Desk, ensuring all tickets are properly documented in accordance with IT quality guidelines.
• Uses remote tools (Go to assist, SCCM) to further diagnose and troubleshoot issues at remote locations.
• Appropriately routes issues not resolved on initial contact to the correct team for resolution, ensuring all troubleshooting and triage steps are documented in ticketing before reassignment.
• Assists in documentation of Service Desk troubleshooting procedures that can be shared with the team's knowledgebase.
• Assists in identification of trends in incidents, recommending recurring issues for problem management process.
• To ensure continuity of essential services, this role maybe required to work variable shifts and/or overtime depending on business

• Must be attending college.
• Willing to learn new technologies.
• Fundamental of Windows 10.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Professional Competencies

• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus
• Functional/Technical skills
• Written/Oral Communication