Duties & responsibilities:

• Reviews, negotiates, and processes contracts and agreements.

• Serves as the liaison with the sponsor, the Sponsored Projects Services Office, the Office of General Counsel, the Export Control Programs office and other compliance/administrative offices within the University.

• Works to enhance coordination and communication with internal stakeholders and sponsors for effective contract review and negotiations.

• Serve as campus resource for principal investigators, study personnel and other University officials in the agreement review process. Advise, assist and provide training to faculty and other study personnel about policies, procedures, forms, laws and regulations related to university agreements.

• Establishes and maintains a system to communicate the status of agreements and amendments to university stakeholders.

• Maintain knowledge of current developments in policy, laws, regulations and best practices regulating university agreements.

• Additional duties may be assigned.

Knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Excellent interpersonal and collaborative skills, along with the ability to interact effectively with a diverse constituency.

• Demonstrated organizational and prioritization skills, along with the ability to work within tight and conflicting deadlines.

• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound judgment.

• Demonstrated ability to be detailed oriented.

• Demonstrated ability to think quickly and effectively in verbal negotiations.