Part-Time Student Rural Legal Clinic Scholar Internship, Center for Rural Engagement

CENTER FOR RURAL ENGAGEMENT (BL-CFRE-IUBLA)

The Indiana University (IU) Center for Rural Engagement (CRE) improves the lives of Hoosiers through collaborative initiatives that discover and deploy scalable and flexible solutions to common challenges facing rural communities. Working in full-spectrum community innovation through research, community-engaged teaching, and student service, the center builds vision, harnesses assets, and cultivates sustainable leadership structures within the communities with which it engages to ensure long-term success.

As part of the Rural Scholars Program, the IU Center for Rural Engagement seeks a student for a project-based internship in partnership with The Maurer Community Clinic. At the Maurer Community Legal Clinic, we help people navigate legal challenges and access the justice system while giving law students the opportunity to learn by doing.

Department Specific Responsibilities

• Liaises with community partners to develop programing and outreach strategies to serve rural residents.
• Supports faculty and students delivering legal information to clients and organizations.
• Identifies opportunities to increase engagement and expand the clinic's reach and partnerships in the region.
• Organizes several driver's license reinstatement events in Greene County and ensures the model can be replicated in other rural communities.
• Works with the Community Legal Clinic Staff, Greene County Prosecutors and Greene and County Courts to identify local residents in need of license reinstatement assistance.
• Organizes events in Greene County where suspended drivers can receive assistance getting their suspensions lifted and get their licenses restored.
• Ensures adequate "staff" at the events including law students and legal professionals who have the requisite knowledge to assist participants.
  
  

EDUCATION

Required

• Currently enrolled as a student at Indiana University studying at the Maurer School of Law.
  
  

LICENSES AND CERTIFICATES

Required

• Possesses a valid driver's license with the ability to be insured by Indiana University upon date of hire.
• Ability to qualify as a Certified Legal Intern upon date of hire.
  
  

Skills

Required

• Proficient communication skills.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism.
• Demonstrates time management and priority-setting skills.
• Demonstrates a high commitment to quality.
• Possesses flexibility to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Seeks to acquire knowledge in the area of specialty.
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy.
• Highly thorough and dependable.
• Ability to solve problems.
  
  

Preferred

• Ability to translate between legal teams and rural partners.
• Community outreach and relationship-building, especially in rural contexts.
• Strong organizational skills to assist in coordinating events and project planning across partners.
• Knowledge in law literacy.
  
  

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without accommodation.

Rural Scholars commit to their internship for 1 academic year, from August until completion in May.

By working directly with clients, students gain practical legal skills, learn the importance of ethical and client-centered advocacy, and develop a deeper commitment to serving their communities.

Bloomington, Indiana

This position is eligible to work a hybrid schedule (a mix of remote and in-person work), which may change in the future based on university policy and business needs.

$15.00 per hour

All hourly hires are eligible for a $0.50 raise for each academic semester (Fall/Spring) that they continue with the CRE in their position.

8 hours per week, August - May

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
  
  

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Part Time Employee

FLSA: Nonexempt

Job Function: Part Time Employee

Job Family: Part Time Student Employee

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