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This role works closely with program leaders, development, finance, human resources, and compliance teams to facilitate efficient contracting processes that support organizational objectives.\n Contract Negotiation and Management\nCollaborates with business leads across the College to define contractual needs and relationships.\nDrafts complex and specialized contractual agreements, including but not limited to service agreements, collaboration agreements, license agreements, and hotel and meeting agreements. Maintains and updates contractual templates for use across the organization.\nProvides guidance to business team members for appropriate contract structure and Statement of Work development.\nAssists business lines in preparing requests for proposals, reviews complex solicitations and assists business lines in the preparation of specialized and/or non-routine responses for proposals, bids, and contract modifications. Maintains and updates proposal templates.\nAssists business lines in the negotiation of contractual terms and conditions adhering to established standard operating procedures. Maintains a library of templated contractual provisions for use in all contracts with applicable regulations and policies.\nApplies knowledge of tax-exempt organization requirements to the contracting process, including through advisement on proper tax treatment of income and associated contractual provisions necessary to maximize non-taxability of income.\nFacilitates contract review and sign off process.Participates in contract initiation procedure including reviewing contractual terms with the business leads and communicating action items necessary for contractual compliance.\n\nWorks with business leads to assist, as appropriate, with the administration of executed contracts, specifically to ensure contractual compliance with emphasis on adhering to the terms and conditions, adhering to payment schedules and stated deadlines, and complying with all applicable laws.\nMaintains contractual records.\nEvaluates opportunities to enhance the contract management process through technical innovation.\nMonitors best practices in the contract management profession and assess feasibility of implementation of such practices.\nAdvises business leads on issues arising from executed contracts, including matters of intellectual property rights and contract breach.\nDevelops strong cooperative working relationships between both internal and external customers.\nLegal and Compliance Support\nAssists in identifying and mitigating legal, regulatory, operational, and reputational risks.\nSupports compliance with nonprofit, tax-exemption, charitable, grant, and funding requirements.\nConducts legal research on matters relating to contracts, nonprofit operations, governance, privacy, and regulatory compliance.\nAssists with implementation and maintenance of contract templates, playbooks, and approval processes.\nSupport special projects and strategic initiatives as assigned.\n Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from an accredited law school.\nTwo years of experience in contract review, drafting, negotiation, or legal support roles. Strong preference for contract professionals with experience in tax-exempt organizations, data privacy and healthcare matters, and licensing arrangements. \nStrong understanding of contract law principles and risk management.\nExcellent legal writing, communication, and analytical skills.\nAbility to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment, and to operate in a self-directed manner.\nStrong attention to detail and organizational skills.\nDedication to customer service and ability to positively represent the organization.\nProficiency with Microsoft Office applications and contract management systems. \nAdmission to a state bar and eligible to practice law, preferred.\nExperience working for a nonprofit organization, foundation, educational institution, or healthcare organization, preferred.\nKnowledge of privacy, data protection, and intellectual property matters, preferred.\nExperience with contract lifecycle management systems and workflow tools, preferred.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4559,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":2,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-11-10T18:32:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":15,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.546,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":50,"expected_fill_days":23,"reasons":["conf:14","win:tail","crowd:junior"],"computed_at":"2026-11-14T05:58:10Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/acc-contract-legal-affairs-associate","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/acc-contract-legal-affairs-associate.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-15T03:30:38Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":6583,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-16T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1768949},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1768949"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Facc-contract-legal-affairs-associate"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"free","price":{"credits":0,"usd":0},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Facc-contract-legal-affairs-associate"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.1,"usd":0.01},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Facc-contract-legal-affairs-associate"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/acc-contract-legal-affairs-associate\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Facc-contract-legal-affairs-associate"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":4030716}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"acc.org","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":4030716},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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