Paralegal

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Paralegal

Duties: With oversight from the Director of Contracts, prepares, reviews, and negotiates contracts including, incoming and outgoing material transfer agreements, non-disclosure agreements, inter-institutional agreements, and various other contractual documents, ensuring consistency with goals as well as policies and legal obligations. Prepares contracts based upon institutional templates and guidance from the Contracts Associates and Director of Contracts. Provides contract review and drafting support to the Contract Associates and the Director of Contracts as requested. Assists with the compilation of information and specifications to compile the necessary contractual documents, preparing and proofreading terms, and finalizing documents for signature. Assists in the design and implementation of policies and procedures to support review, negotiation, drafting, quality control and compliance for agreements to ensure compliance with university policies and federal regulations. Assists in the development of functional requirement, identification and implementation of systems, processes, tools to analyze and predict contracting cost, agreement complexity, risk, and value along with a contract lifecycle management system. Works with support staff and computer systems to ensure proper docketing, accurate data collection and management of compliance activities. Manages and maintains agreement and negotiation records in the Agreements database. Track documents to monitor agreement status to ensure timely execution; and be able to run reports on contract metrics in the Agreement database. Uses Microsoft Office software to assemble, manipulate and format agreement documents and reports. Will be cross-trained across other departments to learn other functions of the team. Participates in development and delivery of faculty education and outreach programs. Collaborates and communicates with faculty, other staff members, other staff members, legal counsel and third party industry representatives by email, telephone, and in person.

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Job Req ID: 9875

Company info

Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures
100 North Charles Street
Baltimore
Maryland
United States 21201
Website : http://ventures.jhu.edu/