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Senior Contracts Officer (Legal)

University of Bath - Research and Innovation Services (RIS)

Location: Bath
Salary: £46,485 to £55,295 per annum
Hours: Full Time
Contract Type: Permanent
Placed On: 19th September 2024
Closes: 24th October 2024
Job Ref: CC12056

As a Senior Contracts Officer (Legal), you will join a small but well-established team of professionals supporting the University's research contract portfolio. Your main focus will be to manage the contract process for a given Faculty, and to support the Head of Team in co-leading the team to ensure that the overall caseload is effectively allocated and managed; you will also deputise for the Head when required, and line manage and mentor junior members.

About the role

This role is pivotal in providing expert advice to academics and managing legal risks for the institution. To do this you need to:

  • Hold a law degree or suitable relevant legal qualification (e.g., LLB, LLM, CPE, SQE, LPC, CILEX).
  • Be able to advise on and manage a range of research-related, commercial contract issues.
  • Have strong drafting and negotiating skills and be confident in managing legal risk.
  • Build effective working relationships and networks, internally and externally.
  • Manage a diverse workload and think strategically.

About you

We are looking for someone with proven experience in a busy (preferably in-house public sector) Contracts/Legal Team, with a commitment to personal and team development.

We ask you to be curious, collaborative and collegiate in your work, maintaining awareness of relevant legislation, participating effectively and engaging with our academic community and other professional services. We are looking for:

  • Up to date knowledge in Data Protection and other relevant legislation.
  • Outstanding communication and relationship building skills.
  • Outstanding organisational and time management skills.
  • The ability to work independently.
  • A willingness to use initiative and drive forward positive change.

Further information

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Amy Charles Persson, Head of Contracts at acp84@bath.ac.uk

What we can offer you:

Find out more about our benefits.

We consider ourselves to be a university where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on the university. We are committed to maintaining a safe and secure environment for our students, staff, and community by reinforcing our Safer Recruitment commitment.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

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