Contracts Officer, UNC Clinical Research Partners

UNC Health; Chapel Hill (NC); A distancia; USD 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

UNC Health, via UNC Clinical Research Partners, seeks a Contracts Officer to review, draft, negotiate, and execute agreements between CRP and industry sponsors. You will collaborate with CRP’s Contracts Counsel to ensure timely, compliant contracting for UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Health.

You will help refine templates, templates, and workflows to shorten start-up times for industry-sponsored trials while maintaining high standards of legal and regulatory compliance.

Formación

• Juris Doctor degree required.
• Active North Carolina State Bar membership required.
• Minimum three (3) years of transactional legal experience in academia or clinical research setting.
• Experience negotiating contracts with public entities or larger organizations.
• Knowledge of data privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, HITECH) preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Review, draft, negotiate, and execute confidential disclosure agreements, clinical trial agreements, and other related legal agreements between CRP and non-federal research sponsors.
• Triage, manage, and resolve issues arising in contract negotiations with time constraints.
• Contribute to CRP’s contract negotiation playbook and master agreement templates.
• Serve as the point of contact for industry sponsors regarding CRP clinical research agreements.
• Develop policies and workflows to ensure efficient negotiation and administration of clinical trial agreements.
• Refine contracting processes to improve trial start-up times.
• Collaborate with UNC and UNC Health contracting teams for unified approaches.

Conocimientos

Collaboration

Communication

Decision-Making

Regulatory Knowledge

Quality Focus

Educación

Juris Doctor

Descripción del empleo

Description

Your passion belongs at UNC Health. Join more than 56,000 teammates working together to improve the health and well-being of the communities we serve across North Carolina.

Summary

UNC Clinical Research Partners (UNC CRP) is a newly established joint venture between UNC Health and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill designed to accelerate and grow industry-sponsored clinical research at UNC Chapel Hill and UNC Health. The Contracts Officer will collaborate with CRP’s Contracts Counsel to review, draft, negotiate, and execute all legal agreements between CRP and non-federal sponsors of clinical research at UNC and UNC Health.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and executing confidential disclosure agreements, clinical trial agreements, and other related legal agreements between CRP and non-federal research sponsors.
• Triage, manage, and resolve issues arising in the contract negotiation process in close partnership with UNC CRP, UNC, and UNC Health leadership, often with specific time constraints.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of CRP’s contract negotiation playbook, master agreement templates, and other related legal forms.
• Serve as the point of contact for industry sponsors regarding CRP clinical research agreements.
• Develop and implement policies, processes, procedures, and workflows to achieve efficient, smooth, and consistent negotiation, execution, and administration of clinical trial agreements.
• Continuously evaluate, assess, and refine contracting processes to improve start-up times for industry-sponsored trials.
• Collaborate with UNC and UNC Health contracting teams to ensure unified and consistent approaches to industry-sponsored clinical trial contracting.

Other Information

Other information:

Education Requirements:

• Juris Doctor degree required.

Licensure/Certification Requirements:

• Membership in good standing with the North Carolina State Bar.

Professional Experience Requirements:

• Requires three (3) years of transactional legal experience, including experience negotiating contracts in a higher education or clinical trial setting and experience working in or knowledge of public entities, higher education, or other similar large and complex organizations.
• Prefer candidates with knowledge of academic medical centers and/or clinical research and candidates with knowledge of data privacy law (e.g. GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, HITECH).

Knowledge/Skills/and Abilities Requirements:

• Knowledge of North Carolina law.
• Collaboration: Experience working as part of cross functional teams with lawyers and non-lawyers on complex transactional projects.
• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with internal teams, clients, and stakeholders at all levels.
• Decision-Making: Strong analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to identify issues, develop solutions, and make informed decisions in a timely manner.
• Regulatory Knowledge: In-depth understanding of legal and policy contracting requirements.
• Commitment to Quality: Experience in implementing or improving processes to reach or maintain high standards of quality and excellence in a higher education, clinical, or other organizational setting.

Job Details

• Legal Employer: STATE
• Entity: Shared Services
• Organization Unit: Clinical Research
• Work Type: Full Time
• Standard Hours Per Week: 40.00
• Pay offers are determined by experience and internal equity
• Work Assignment Type: Remote
• Work Schedule: Day Job
• Location of Job: US:NC:Chapel Hill
• Exempt From Overtime: Exempt: Yes
• This position is employed by NC Health (Rex Healthcare, Inc., d/b/a NC Health), a private, fully-owned subsidiary of UNC Health Care System, in a department that provides shared services to operations across UNC Health Care; except that, if you are currently a UNCHCS State employee already working in a designated shared services department, you may remain a UNCHCS State employee if selected for this job.

Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran or political affiliation.

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