Risk Management and Legal Intern at After School Matters – Chicago, Illinois
After School Matters
Chicago, Illinois, 60601, United States
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Summary of Position: This position will support the Legal Department with a wide range of projects related to risk management, compliance, and legal research, including developing compliance checklist, drafting policies and procedures and related memoranda/reports, providing administrative and back-up support and other related projects. This position is a good fit for someone who writes well and is detail oriented and interested in learning about not-for-profit risk management and introductory legal research and theory.
This position will begin in May 2026 and end in August 2026.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Qualifications:
Compensation: $20 / hour
About Us: After School Matters is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that annually offers after-school and summer programs to nearly 19,000 Chicago high school teens to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills that will set them up for success in college and beyond.
ASM has engaged more than 450,000 Chicago teens and is the nation’s largest and most successful provider of after-school and summer programs for high school teens.
ASM offers paid apprenticeships led by professionals in the fields of arts, communications and leadership, sports, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Our nationally respected youth development model has been replicated in cities across the country and earned us the City Livability Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Programs take place at community locations throughout the city, including three ASM buildings: downtown at Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, the Michael and Karyn Lutz Center in Belmont Cragin, and the Pullman community at Gately Park. Currently, After School Matters’ annual operating budget is approximately $48M and employs approximately 500 staff across the organization.
EEO: After School Matters is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, military discharge status, age, marital status, parental status, or source of income.
This position will begin in May 2026 and end in August 2026.
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Research legal topics and provide a report/memo on the findings
- Assist with Privacy and Information Security issues
- Assist with the creation of compliance site visit forms and risk management checklists
- Assist with insurance claim inquiries (follow-up with emails, tracking claims, etc.)
- Legal tracking (incident reporting, saving background checks, renewal dates for licenses, garnishments, etc.)
- Update policies and procedures
- Create one pagers re: legal and/or risk management topics and/or guidance
- Generate reports (e.g., incident reports, etc.) on an as-needed basis
- Assist and/or conduct compliance assessments and other compliance site visits for community providers
- Complete manual data entry when required
- Support team with administrative tasks (e.g. copying, scanning)
- Act as a back-up for the Receptionist desk
- When needed, assist with teen application and other Program Quality and Compliance department assignments when the volume is high
- Other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent writing skills
- Detail-oriented and organized
- Analytical problem solver
- Customer service oriented
- Proficient with Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to work independently and in a team
- Ability to research and distill facts and key issues
- Intermediate Microsoft Excel skills preferred
Qualifications:
- Must be currently enrolled as a college student or graduate/law school student
Compensation: $20 / hour
About Us: After School Matters is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that annually offers after-school and summer programs to nearly 19,000 Chicago high school teens to explore and develop their talents while gaining critical skills that will set them up for success in college and beyond.
ASM has engaged more than 450,000 Chicago teens and is the nation’s largest and most successful provider of after-school and summer programs for high school teens.
ASM offers paid apprenticeships led by professionals in the fields of arts, communications and leadership, sports, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). Our nationally respected youth development model has been replicated in cities across the country and earned us the City Livability Award from the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Programs take place at community locations throughout the city, including three ASM buildings: downtown at Gallery 37 Center for the Arts, the Michael and Karyn Lutz Center in Belmont Cragin, and the Pullman community at Gately Park. Currently, After School Matters’ annual operating budget is approximately $48M and employs approximately 500 staff across the organization.
EEO: After School Matters is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, military discharge status, age, marital status, parental status, or source of income.
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