Principal Paralegal

Nacba; Scranton (Lackawanna County); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

NACBA is seeking a Principal Paralegal to lead Legal Operations, focusing on system management, workflow optimization, and financial administration of outside spend. The role ensures attorneys and compliance leaders have auditable, well-structured processes to execute duties efficiently.

You will supervise contract intake, track expirations, and maintain official repositories while supporting audits and governance programs across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies or ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate, or equivalent experience.
• 5–7+ years of paralegal/legal operations experience, preferably in healthcare, corporate, or nonprofit settings.
• Strong contract lifecycle mastery and drafting abilities; excellent organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• System Administration (Compliatric): manage the contract/compliance system and ensure data integrity.
• Triage incoming legal requests, assign to attorneys, and track SLA delivery.
• Maintain records of contracts, affiliations, leases; generate renewal/termination alerts.
• Audit outside counsel invoices against engagements and fee schedules.
• Oversee document retention, licensing filings, and compliance governance.
• Coordinate investigative binders and audit support for leadership.

Skills

Contract management

System administration

Data integrity

Leadership

Interdepartmental collaboration

Document retention

Education

Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies or Paralegal Certificate

Tools

Compliatric

Job description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Principal Paralegal serves as the Legal Operations Lead for the department. This role is dedicated to system management, workflow optimization, tracking legal assets, contract intake triage, document retention, and financial administration of outside legal spend. The Principal Paralegal ensures that both attorneys and compliance leaders have structured, audited systems to execute their duties seamlessly.

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS

This position reports directly to the SVP Enterprise Integrity, Chief Legal & Governance Officer

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND FUNCTIONS

While living and demonstrating our Core Values, the Principal Paralegal will:

• System Administration (Compliatric): Serve as the super-user and primary system administrator for the Enterprise contract and compliance management software (Compliatric), ensuring 100% database accuracy and data integrity.
• Triage & Workflow Coordination: Manage incoming legal and contract requests, triage assignments to the Associate Attorney or In-House Counsel, and track deliverables against established SLAs.
• Contract Expiration & Renewal Tracking: Maintain accurate records of all active clinical affiliations, vendor contracts, leases, and agreements, generating proactive 60/90-day renewal/termination alerts for leadership.
• Outside Counsel Spend & Invoice Auditing: Audit outside legal counsel and consultant invoices against engagement letters and fee schedules prior to SVP approval, tracking overall department legal spend.
• Document Retention & Compliance Governance: Maintain official legal repositories, execute document retention/destruction schedules per Enterprise policy, and log corporate licensing and accreditation filings.
• Investigative & Audit Administrative Support: Organize evidence files, coordinate interview scheduling, and compile investigative binders for the Director of Corporate Integrity during formal audits or internal investigations

OTHER FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate the organization’s Mission, Vision and Core Values in everyday work
• Represent the Enterprise at community events
• Build and nurture relationships through all levels of the Enterprise by demonstrating a genuine desire to develop enduring partnerships aligned around the achievement of common goals
• Foster and grow culture by having individuals and teams own their work to deliver amazing results
• Build trust, respect and collaboration in all business relationships
• Excel in a team environment, supporting and assisting the efforts of other team members
• Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein

• Meet The Wright Center for Community Health and its affiliated entity The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education EOS© People Analyzer Tool
• Buy in and experience working in the EOS® model (strongly preferred)
• Mission-oriented; represents the enterprise in a professional manner while demonstrating organizational pride
• 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 in healthcare, corporate, or non-profit settings.
• Strong relationship-building skills with all departments and employees, executives, volunteer Directors and community leaders
• Demonstrated mastery of contract lifecycle management systems and workflows.
• Exceptional organizational, tracking, and detail-oriented skills.
• Strong drafting abilities for routine legal documents and correspondence.
• Outstanding communication, collaboration and leadership skills; the ability to inspire and inform
• Is an outstanding ambassador for the Enterprise in the community and demonstrates organizational pride
• Unwavering ethical standards, commitment to whole-person care and community health.
• The highest personal integrity with a demonstrable commitment to the mission of the organizations
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and analytical thinking
• Expert knowledge of legal technology (specifically Compliatric or similar contract life‑cycle systems), process optimization, tracking metrics, and administrative organization.
• Ability to thrive in a fast‑paced, results‑driven environment
• Exceptional discretion with sensitive investigations, high accountability, team‑oriented mindset, and alignment with the EOS® model.