Internship, Hunter Family Foundation

 

 

Hunter Family Foundation Internship 

 

In Fall 2021, The Hunter Family Foundation (HFF) is interested in engaging a graduate school student (preferred) to partner with its Executive Director to conduct research, analyze information, develop new and refined strategies, and generate reports to support the Foundation’s grant-making and operations plans for 2022-2024.

 

HFF provides grants and leadership to improve lives in a long-term and sustainable way by supporting education, healthcare, economic development, and the environment in Lake County, IL; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; and San Francisco, CA. We are 12 months into a 15-month learning process to develop new systems and infrastructure to support strategic grant-making. We are looking to assess what we have learned and accomplished over the past five years (and especially the past year) to inform our efforts over the next three years.

 

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assess existing programs and policies

• Create report on grant-making activities over the past five years, with specific attention to 2021

• Conduct and provide market analysis of similar foundations to gauge staff, administrative, and investment costs and annual grantmaking payments

• Help make a series of recommendations for improved internal priorities and processes

• Help design and present a high-level plan for 2022-2024

• May perform additional projects upon request

 

Requirements

• Currently enrolled graduate student in business, public policy, social work, or similar field (preferred)

• Demonstrated engagement and accomplishment in social impact programs and/or projects

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office

• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills

• Entrepreneurial spirit and demonstrated ability

• Good written and verbal communication skills

• Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills

• Ability to express empathy, patience, and humility in interactions with internal and external stakeholders

 

Additional Information

• Work would be mostly remote with a few in-person meetings scheduled in Evanston, Lake Forest, and/or Chicago(mutually decided times/places)

• Schedule: 8-10 hours per week from October 18 – December 17 (9 weeks total): mostly flexible with mutually decided deadlines and twice-weekly virtual meetings scheduled between 9am and 5pm Central. Also need to be able to present and participate in Full Board virtual meeting on Sunday, December 12 from 9:30am until 12:30pm Central

• Stipend: $25/hour with a cap of 100 hours over the course of the internship

• Executive director will provide orientation, supervision, and support during the internship

 

If interested, please email a resume and a note to Frank Baiocchi, Executive Director at Frank@HunterFamilyFoundation.org.