Senior Contracting Specialist (Office of Sponsored Research)

Responsibilities

• Serves as a point of contact during negotiation and review of agreements.
• Oversees agreement process through final signature.
• Negotiates, drafts, executes and maintains research contracts including subcontracts, material transfer, data transfer, collaboration, and confidentiality agreements.
• Develops and maintains standard agreement templates and updates standard operating procedures as needed.
• Timely enters and maintains agreements in repository and other database systems.
• Schedules progress reports and deliverables on all awards and contracts in database systems with appropriate notifications.
• Affixes appropriate intellectual property provisions to agreements based on institutional commitments and likelihood of inventions.
• Ensures compliance with regulations, policies, and processes related to grants and contracts, as well as state and federal laws.
• Works with Research Executive Director to ensure template language for standard Joslin contracts complies with all Federal, State, and Institutional requirements.
• Identifies issues for review by Office of Sponsored Research and Research Compliance Officer.
• Finalizes research agreements including securing approvals, signatures, overseeing handoff to OSR administration and to related stakeholders.
• Assesses subrecipient risks for federal awards and prepares FFATA reports.
• Trains OSR and other Joslin personnel on the contracts process and components.
• Participates in ad-hoc committees/workgroups to optimize agreements workflows, accountability, and transparency.
• Performs systems audits as needed or required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; Doctoral degree preferred
• 3-5 years related work experience, with experience in contract negotiation and federal grants
• Licensing experience in academic and medical research preferred
• Strong organization and time management skills with ability to manage numerous projects simultaneously in a time sensitive environment required
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, as well as a member of an interdisciplinary team
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills required
• Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications. May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases
• Ability to work with a varied caseload with minimal supervision, exercising strong judgment and applying the appropriate legal principles and Joslin policies and practices to specific legal issues
• Outstanding verbal and written skills proven in either a legal, university or academic medical center setting are required

Pay

$31,000.00 USD - $52,000.00 USD