Role & Responsibilities

1) Contract Management:

• Manage contract processing (including reviewing intake forms and contract requests, drafting SOWs, coordinating and tracking legal, finance, and leadership review, correspondence with internal/external stakeholders re contract status & requirements, finalizing contracts, compiling exhibits or attachments, and coordinating signatures via DocuSign, monitoring expiring contracts and sending monthly reminders for same).
• Review grants and contracts and prepare polished summaries for senior leadership reviews
• Support the intake, analysis, and preparation of contracts, amendments, NDAs, and other legal documents/ projects
• Document review and proofing (section reference checks, definition checks, grammar and formatting checks)
• Knowledge management (FAQs, commercial legal hub, internal/external documents, legal process documents)
• Lead cross functional initiatives related to contracts (locate agreements, check for data points & specific contract clauses, run reports from CMS)
• Review agreements and pulling data points; creating summaries and visualizations
• POC for queries related to data that lives in Ironclad
• POC for queries related to contract workflow questions, glitches, updates
• Handle updates to all contract process templates and playbooks
• Optimize contract and grant coordination processes and legal knowledge systems (e.g., contract terms database)
• Manage and optimize legal records and archives, including organization of legal, financial, and programmatic documents related to contracts and grants agreements

2) Legal Operations / Legal Admin:

• Collaborate with Ops/IT as the legal team representative for Salesforce, Airtable, Ironclad, and other technology tools and systems
• Assess, implement, and maintain customized technologies and processes to drive efficiencies in the department's delivery of legal services
• Lead progress of grant agreements through Legal, including coordinating the preparation and execution of agreements, amendments, and exhibits both digitally and in hard copy
• Drive legal training for the organization, including developing materials w/ the CLO, leading sessions, and managing calendar + library for same
• Manage Legal/CLO meetings, agendas, day-to-day tasks, and monitor Legal email inbox
• Partner with CLO and programmatic stakeholders to understand their needs and develop processes and solutions

Qualifications/Skills

• Agile, accurate, resourceful, responsive
• Deep project management skills
• Detail oriented; curious and analytical thinker
• Strong administrative organization skills
• Familiarity with legal agreements, commercial vendor contracts and grant agreements a plus
• Clear concise communication, presentation and collaboration skills
• Self-motivated with the ability to set long term and day-to-day priorities and manage multiple competing tasks in an effective and efficient manner
• Comfortable working with flexibility in an agile customer-service oriented environment
• Discreet and familiar with navigating legally sensitive or confidential matters
• 4+ years of experience with legal contracts management, legal operations, or legal project/case management
• Nonprofit administration and/or grants management experience a plus
• Paralegal experience a plus

Position Details

• Role: Contracts Manager
• Location: On-site four days a week in Oakland, CA
• Technology: Ironclad, Salesforce, Airtable
• Salary: $120,000 - $160,000 based on experience and subject-matter expertise

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