Intern, Global Patient Engagement; Durham, NC

COMPANY

At Bio Cryst, we share a deep commitment to improving the lives of people living with complement-mediated and other rare diseases. For over three decades we’ve been guided by our passion for not settling for “ordinary” in our quest to develop novel medicines. We leverage our expertise in structure-guided drug design to develop first-in-class or best-in-class oral small-molecule and protein therapeutics, led by the efforts of our team of expert scientists in our Discovery Center of Excellence in Birmingham, Alabama.

Our global headquarters is in Durham, North Carolina, and our employees span the globe across sites in multiple countries. We are proud of our culture of engagement and accountability that rewards people for innovative thinking and achievement of key objectives. For more information, please visit our website at  or follow us on Linked In and Instagram.

The Bio Cryst Internship Program is your ticket to getting a head start on your career! As an intern, you will gain hands‑on, real‑world work experience. Our internship program includes:

• 11-12 weeks of full‑time, paid work experience
• Access to our office in RTP, Frontier Campus
• In‑person Internship Orientation
• Professional development workshops and access to Linked In Learning
• Expand your professional network through our Career Connections series
• Social and volunteer activities
• Intern Showcase in our RTP, Frontier Campus
• Opportunities to connect with company leaders and MORE!

This is an exciting opportunity to explore patient engagements important role in a fast‑growing biotech company. As a Patient Engagement Intern, you will collaborate with various cross‑functional partners and non‑profit patient organizations to identify synergies and opportunities to help support and empower patient communities in Bio Cryst’s therapeutic areas and beyond. During this internship, you will rely on and grow your communication, research, strategic thinking, and organizational skills and leave with a deeper understanding of how to translate the power of patient voices into meaningful change.

The ideal candidate will be ready to roll up their sleeves and bring their genuine and empathetic passion for serving rare disease patient communities into a fast‑paced, innovative learning environment.

• Relationship management
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  Support Patient Engagement team initiatives with local, national, and international patient organizations. Assist with streamlining inquiries to and from internal colleagues and patient organizations.
• Landscape assessments
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  Identify new patient organizations and opportunities for collaboration around disease state awareness, patient education, and support services.
• Advisory Board Support
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  Assist with patient advisory board/council development and other initiatives to further understand patient community experiences.
• Event planning
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  Attend and coordinate company’s participation in patient organizations’ virtual and in‑person conferences, fundraising events, and awareness campaigns, along with internal company‑wide events or programs.
• Benchmarking
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  Strategize and assist in developing KPIs, systems, programs and trainings to measure and share Patient Engagement team’s impact.
• Communications
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  Work collaboratively with Corporate Communications to amplify Patient Engagement activities and programs. Help communicate Patient Engagement team’s capabilities internally and externally through Intranet articles, social media posts, and presentations
• Cross‑functional engagement
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  Represent Patient Engagement team at select meetings with internal stakeholders including Legal and Compliance, Medical Affairs, Corporate Communications, Marketing, and Market Research, etc. Document and socialize meeting summaries and action items.
• Administrative Support
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  Actively support the Patient Engagement team with Veeva submissions, data input, update advocacy calendar, meeting coordination and capturing meeting minutes.

• Working towards a bachelor’s degree in non‑profit management, social work, public health, public policy, pre‑med, nursing, health communications, business, or…