Legal Assistant

JOB ID: 26000171

Milton Hershey School (MHS) is one of the world’s best pre-K through 12th grade private schools, where approximately 2,200 students from disadvantaged backgrounds are provided with a cost-free home and a top-notch education.  Thanks to the generosity of Milton and Catherine Hershey in 1909, the school is fully endowed today, with the resources to ensure students can thrive.  The school has prepared over 12,000 graduates to lead fulfilling and productive lives and is expanding to serve more students for future generations.

MHS is seeking an experienced, highly organized Legal Assistant to join its Office of General Counsel (OGC). This role provides critical support to the school’s legal team, helping manage legal matters, high-priority projects, records, deadlines, and services that support MHS and Catherine Hershey Schools for Early Learning.  This is a year-round onsite position in Hershey, PA. The compensation range is from $26.35 to $35.18 per hour, based on experience, plus an excellent benefits package.  This is an excellent opportunity for an administrative professional who thrives in a fast-paced environment, values accuracy, and confidentiality, and wants to contribute to an organization with a meaningful mission.

Responsibilities include: 

• Provide comprehensive legal and administrative support to Deputy General Counsels and other members of the team. 
• Manage legal intake, correspondence, calendars, deadlines, records, and electronic case management systems.
• Coordinate contracts, real estate matters, legal initiatives, and priority projects with attorneys, outside counsel, consultants, and others.
• Conduct legal and regulatory research and prepare correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations, and summaries.
• Support preparation of Board materials and weekly legal reports for the President.
• Maintain accurate, confidential legal records in accordance with records retention requirements.
• Provide legal administrative support for Shared Services.
• Track projects, deadlines, and milestones while proactively identifying issues and moving work to completion.

Qualifications:

• Associate’s degree required, bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Paralegal or Legal Assistant certification or degree required.
• Minimum of 3 years of relevant legal assistant, paralegal, administrative, or project coordination experience.
• Experience supporting attorneys, legal departments, executives, or corporate governance functions.
• Strong organization, judgment, communication, research, and project management skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple priorities and sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft applications and comfortable navigating legal databases.
• Experience with legal records, document retention, case management, or matter management systems preferred.
• Must demonstrate a high degree of integrity as all MHS are role models for students.
• Seeking candidates eager to engage with students beyond the job responsibilities.