Legal Operations Lead: Contracts & Compliance Systems

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education; Scranton (Lackawanna County); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education seeks a Principal Paralegal to lead legal operations, system management, and contract lifecycle workflows. You will ensure data integrity, manage requests, and coordinate renewals while auditing outside counsel spend and maintaining official repositories.

The role emphasizes process optimization, strong drafting, and leadership in a fast-paced healthcare governance environment. Collaboration with compliance and enterprise leadership is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies or a related field or an ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate (or equivalent career experience).
• 5–7+ years of dedicated paralegal or legal operations experience, preferably healthcare/corporate/non-profit.
• Demonstrated mastery of contract lifecycle management systems and workflows.
• Exceptional organizational, tracking, and detail-oriented skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the super-user and primary system administrator for the Enterprise contract and compliance management software (Compliatric).
• Manage incoming legal and contract requests, triage assignments, and track deliverables against SLAs.
• Maintain records of active clinical affiliations, vendor contracts, leases, and agreements; generate 60/90-day renewal alerts.
• Audit outside counsel invoices against engagements and fee schedules prior to SVP approval.
• Maintain official legal repositories and document retention/destruction schedules per policy.
• Coordinate investigations and compile binders during audits or internal investigations.

Skills

Contract lifecycle management

Relationship-building

Audit & data integrity

Legal technology (Compliatric)

Document drafting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Legal Studies or related field

ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate or equivalent

Tools

Compliatric

Job description

The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education seeks a Principal Paralegal to lead legal operations, system management, and contract lifecycle workflows. You will ensure data integrity, manage requests, and coordinate renewals while auditing outside counsel spend and maintaining official repositories.

The role emphasizes process optimization, strong drafting, and leadership in a fast-paced healthcare governance environment. Collaboration with compliance and enterprise leadership is essential.