Paralegal

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🌽 Illinois – Remote

🌽 Illinois – Remote

💵 $83.6k - $104.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💼 Paralegal

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Obama Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2014

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

💰 $100M Grant on 2021-11

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

Obama Foundation is a nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring, empowering, and connecting people to foster change in their communities and the world. The Foundation runs various programs aimed at developing the next generation of leaders and changemakers through initiatives like the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance and the Girls Opportunity Alliance. It is also working on the establishment of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, which will include a museum and gathering spaces to inspire civic engagement. The Foundation is committed to promoting pluralism, education, and leadership on a global scale, making a positive impact through its various projects and partnerships.

📋 Description

• Review, analyze, and organize complex factual material and other substantive legal documents • Monitor the system for legal inquiries, responding to business team partners or escalating to attorneys in a timely fashion • Assist attorneys with initial review and finalization of Foundation agreements • Review contract requests, resolve ambiguities, prepare initial contract drafts, and coordinate with attorneys, business partners, and third parties • Manage and improve the contract management system with input from business users and stakeholders • Work with attorneys on regulatory reporting obligations, compliance training materials, legal systems optimization, Legal team policies, standard operating procedures, and related training • Assist with Legal operations workstreams, including project management trackers, outside counsel engagement letters and invoices, and Legal operations reports • Draft and edit legal documents • Perform legal research • Prepare materials for trainings, internal presentations, and board and executive team meetings • Manage organizational storage and sourcing of Legal team documents • Perform other duties as assigned

🎯 Requirements

• 4 years of previous paralegal or other legal experience, either at a firm or in-house • Excellent writing ability, research skills, and analytical thinking, with confidence to apply research results to fact patterns to propose conclusions or prescriptions • Highly organized, with a track record of meeting short- and long-term responsibilities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, high volume organization • Ability to work independently and as part of a team • Prior experience building or maintaining a contract management system, such as Ironclad, a plus but not required • Prior experience with Google Suite and Freshservice a plus but not required • Committed to our mission of inspiring, empowering, and connecting people to change their world