Contracts Manager

About the role

The Contracts Manager is responsible to the Legal Counsel and provides support to colleagues across the university with respect to a broad range of contractual, legal and administrative matters. A key focus of the role is to draft, negotiate and review contracts which will span the full range of business activity, including: educational partnerships in the UK, international educational partnerships, commercial contracts, consultancy, and ad-hoc agreements and contracts as required.

The Contracts Manager will also work on the review and renewal of existing agreements and will play a role of assisting the Legal Counsel in providing advice to colleagues across the university on core business and strategic initiatives across the range of the University’s activities.

About the Department

The Governance and Legal Services Directorate comprises expert teams in governance, compliance, policy, casework and legal, working with a common purpose to protect the University’s interests whilst enabling innovation and the achievement of the University’s objectives. The Directorate works collaboratively across the university community to develop awareness of university policy and regulations, legal issues and external compliance. The Contracts Manager will play a key role in the team through the application of legal and contractual knowledge for effective risk management, providing legal support to a diverse range of stakeholders.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Valuing Diversity & Committed to Equality

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