Operations & Innovation Intern

Description

Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco — Multi-Department Intern (Finance, Legal & HR)

John N. Callander Administrative Office | Summer 2026 | Full-Time (40 hrs/week) | $23/hr | In-Person Preferred; Remote/Hybrid Considered

Why This Role Matters:

Since 1891, Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF) has provided high-quality, community-based youth development services to youth in San Francisco. Our mission is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. We impact the lives of Club members, primarily ages 6 to 18, by focusing on academic success, healthy lifestyles, good character, community engagement, and job readiness with earning potential. We are nationally recognized for the high quality of our programs and comprehensive approach to serving youth. Whether you’re joining our administrative team, a Clubhouse team, a school-based team, or our Camp Mendocino team, you’ll be surrounded by enthusiastic, talented, and passionate colleagues who wake up every day ready to inspire young people to reach their full potential.

What You’ll Do:

We are looking for a detail-oriented Operations & Innovation Intern to help modernize operations across three departments: Finance, Legal, and HR. The role centers on improving processes, reporting, and AI integration.

Key focus areas include nonprofit financial modeling, data analysis, process automation, and building AI-powered dashboards and reporting tools using internal organizational data. The goal is to create interconnected systems that work across all three departments.

It's a good fit for students interested in nonprofit management, financial reporting, or data-driven operations.

Responsibilities

Finance Department

• Budgeting & Financial Tools: Assist in managing and advancing our current Google Sheets-based budgeting tool, integrating data from NetSuite. Update and maintain the Google Sheets workbook, consolidating all BGCSF departmental budgets. Ascertain ways to ensure this tool is as advanced and automated as possible.
• Data Integration & Automation: Explore ways to sync financial data between NetSuite and Google Sheets, potentially leveraging scripts or automation tools. Assist in streamlining and automating a wide variety of dashboard reports.
• Financial Analysis & Reporting: Utilize technology to extract and analyze financial data to support budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis. 
• Process Improvement and Special Projects: Support vendor savings projects by analyzing costs and identifying efficiencies. Work on ad hoc projects to enhance financial processes as needed.

Human Resources Department

• Attrition & Workforce Analytics: Support the development of dashboards and reporting tools to track key HR metrics, including attrition, retention, and headcount trends.
• Recruitment Pipeline Management: Help assess and improve the efficiency of our recruitment workflow from job posting through offer acceptance.
• Onboarding Process Improvement: Evaluate our current onboarding experience and identify opportunities to standardize and improve the process for new hires.
• Employee Relations & Theme Identification: Analyze employee relations data to surface recurring themes and support a positive workplace culture.

Legal Department

• Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) Optimization: Assess current contract management processes and explore tools or automations to improve efficiency and visibility.
• Vendor Relationship Analysis & Cost Savings: Analyze vendor relationships to identify cost savings opportunities and develop a framework for evaluating vendor performance.

What You Bring:

Requirements/Qualifications

Academic & Professional Interest

• Strong interest in nonprofit organizations, especially those with a focus on youth development
• Interest in AI, data, systems, efficiencies, and technology
• Willingness to work across a broad range of projects and with multiple areas of the organization
• Ability to take initiative, ask thoughtful questions, and engage in critical thinking

Technical & Analytical Skills

• Proficiency in working with AI in technical capacities that result in turning manual processes, reporting, and dashboards into automated tasks
• Proficiency in AI usage, Google Workspace applications, and the Microsoft Suite
• Comfort with data analysis and reporting tools, with an interest in learning about financial systems like Oracle NetSuite and Salesforce
• Proficiency with automation, scripting, and database management 

Organizational & Communication skills

• Strong attention to detail and the ability to manage data accurately
• Excellent organizational skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills for collaborating across departments

Pay

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and BGCSF needs. At BGCSF, our decisions are based on other factors and dependant on the circumstances for each position. Depending on the need and requirement of the position, an individual could be hired at or near the entry-level, mid-level or top-of-the-range for their role and compensation. As such, a reasonable estimate of the current range is $23.00 per hour.

Pre-Employment Requirements

As part of the hiring process, BGCSF requires candidates to complete LiveScan fingerprinting, a background check, and a tuberculosis (TB) evaluation or test.

Disclaimer

The information presented indicates the general nature and level of work expected of employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain, nor to be interpreted as, a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, qualifications and objectives required of employees assigned to this job. The organization has the discretion to relocate/reassign a person, as needed.son, as needed.