Internship Consultancy in Healthcare, Education, and Social Domain

0.8 - 1 FTE per week | Utrecht | Hybrid | Healthcare and Societal Development | € 600,- Gross per month

Your progress starts at Berenschot

Do you want to combine your master's thesis research with practical experience at a leading consultancy firm? And do you want to contribute to current developments in healthcare, education, or the social domain? Read on.

For our Healthcare and Societal Development (ZMO) consultancy group, we are looking for a curious and driven intern for the period February to June 2027. You will work three days a week on consultancy assignments and spend the remaining two days on your thesis research.

During your internship, you will work with experienced consultants three days a week and make a substantive contribution to ongoing assignments. This way, you will get acquainted with the consultancy profession and develop your research and advisory skills. Our clients include ministries, executive organizations, municipalities, healthcare providers, and educational institutions. We help them with a variety of issues such as the organization and affordability of healthcare, the future of education, and appropriate support for residents. The common thread in our assignments is that they are socially urgent and administratively complex.

In addition to working on consultancy assignments, there is room to work on your thesis. You will propose a relevant topic for your thesis research yourself. Of course, we are happy to think along with you to ensure your research aligns well with our practice, and how we can help you, for example, with recruiting respondents for interviews, or providing existing use cases on your topic.

What you will do

• You will support and participate in research and consultancy assignments, for example, by preparing and conducting interviews and work sessions, performing qualitative and quantitative analyses, and co-writing reports and articles.

• You will participate in team meetings, knowledge sessions, training, and internal meetings.

• You will provide support at conferences, symposia, and client meetings.

• In consultation, you will join one of the three teams within the ZMO department: healthcare, education, or social domain.

Depending on the team you join, you will work on themes such as:

Social Domain:

• You will investigate how organizations can make the Participation Act and the Social Employment Facilities Act (Wsw) future-proof.

• You will advise on the strategic direction of asylum and integration policy and evaluate how implementation contributes to policy goals.

• You will investigate how municipalities can gain more control over the costs of youth care and guide them in implementing improvements.

• You will support municipalities in designing and improving access to support within the social domain.

Healthcare:

• You will support healthcare organizations in strengthening their resilience and ensuring continuity of care, so that essential care can continue during disruptions, such as IT or staff outages.

• You will advise healthcare organizations on the use of digital applications and support them in improving data exchange between healthcare providers.

• You will work with residents, municipalities, and healthcare and welfare organizations on caring neighborhoods, where people look out for each other and care and support are readily available.

• You will support healthcare organizations with operational tasks, such as improving business operations, managing costs, and aligning capacity with care demand.

Education:

• You will investigate how the educational offering in primary, secondary, vocational, and higher education can remain accessible and future-proof, and advise on the distribution of schools and programs.

• You will advise educational regions and school boards on tackling the teacher shortage and support them in regional collaboration and organizing education differently.

• You will investigate how educational institutions can align their organization and resources with future challenges and guide them in organizational changes, collaborations, and mergers.

• You will advise on strengthening basic skills and lifelong learning and support boards and municipalities in organizing guidance for young people with support needs.

• You will support educational institutions, governments, and companies in setting up joint innovation trajectories and evaluate how they contribute to the intended goals.

Where you will work

Berenschot is an independent and autonomous Dutch organizational consultancy firm in Utrecht, where over 500 driven colleagues work on sustainable solutions for our clients' challenges. We contribute to progress in organizations and society with our advice and solutions. Our organization has a flat structure without partners, giving you influence over the projects you undertake.

Your direct colleagues

What you bring

• You are enrolled at an educational institution during your internship

• You are in the final phase of a relevant university master's program, such as public administration, economics, business administration, medicine, educational sciences, or sociology.

• You want to make a societal impact.

• You are meticulous, curious, and ask questions.

• You have strong written Dutch language skills.

• You take initiative and actively seek opportunities to contribute.

• You want to discover if a career in consultancy suits you.

What we offer you

At Berenschot, we offer a unique work environment without shareholders or partners, which gives us the freedom to innovate and commit ourselves to societal issues. We have an informal culture, short lines of communication, and ample opportunities for personal and professional growth. Additionally, we offer:

• An internship allowance of € 600,- gross per month based on full-time employment.

• A laptop.

• Room to combine your thesis research with an internship.

• The possibility to work from home one to two days a week.

• Additional development opportunities within Berenschot to deepen and broaden your knowledge, tailored to your interests and learning goals.

• An informal and ambitious team in which you actively participate and are given responsibility.

• A flat organization with short communication lines and ample room for your own initiative, ideas, and entrepreneurship.

• A substantively challenging internship that can be a stepping stone to our traineeship.

Stageplus Program

In addition to your internship, you can participate in Berenschot's Stageplus Program: a training program of approximately 3.5 months that offers training in consultancy knowledge, skills, and personal development. This requires an average of one half-day per two weeks. You can read more about the program via this link. Everything about our Stageplus Program | Berenschot

Apply immediately

Does this internship appeal to you? Don't wait any longer and apply! Contact Oumnia Makrani via WhatsApp (06 13 33 87 70) or by e-mail () for information about the procedure. Oumnia is available on Fridays. Do you have an urgent question? Then email .

Do you have substantive questions about this vacancy? Colleague Aniek Willems will gladly answer all your questions. Call or WhatsApp Aniek Willems via (06 16 13 69 69). or send an e-mail to

In your motivation letter, please remember to mention the period for which you are seeking an internship and how many hours per week you are available. This will allow us to assess your application as well as possible.

This is what the application process looks like

Have you applied? You will receive a response within one working week. Is it positive? Then we would like to invite you for an introductory meeting. If we are both enthusiastic after this conversation? Then there will be a meeting with fellow consultants and your future manager. That is the moment to ask your final questions. If it becomes clear from that that you are a true Berenschotter? Then we will proceed quickly to a concrete offer. After this, you are a true Berenschotter and we will gladly welcome you to our team.

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