Contracts Analyst

Contracts Analyst

The people of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) are united by a singular mission: ending cancer for life. Our specialized care teams provide personalized, compassionate, expert care to patients of all ages. Informed by basic research done at our Sloan Kettering Institute, scientists across MSK collaborate to conduct innovative translational and clinical research that is driving a revolution in our understanding of cancer as a disease and improving the ability to prevent, diagnose, and treat it. MSK is dedicated to training the next generation of scientists and clinicians, who go on to pursue?our mission?at MSK and around the globe. One of the worlds most respected comprehensive centers devoted exclusively to cancer, we have been recognized as one of the top two cancer hospitals in the country by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Contracts Analyst to join the Office of Research and Project Administration (ORPA) reporting directly to the Manager, Contracts. In this role you will independently draft, negotiate, and complete funded and non-funded collaborative research agreements. These are linked to sponsored research funding managed by G&C, minimizing risk and improving benefit for MSK and its faculty. As part of MSK's sub-recipient monitoring and risk assessment program, you will play a key role in assessing project and organization-specific risks for MSK's research collaborations, and make recommendations to management to mitigate risk and protect MSK's interests.

You Will:

1. Independently analyze and interpret terms and conditions of routine and non-routine government, non-government and other non-industry sponsored research agreements and contracts, including those associated with the FAR, DFAR, CFR, and other Sponsor contracting regulations; negotiate appropriate and acceptable agreement terms and conditions.
2. Develop and deliver training, tools and resources to the MSK research community to promote contracting standard methodologies.
3. Collaborate with other offices within MSK (e.g., Office of General Counsel, Office of Technology Development, Clinical Research Contracting) on government, non-government and other non-industry sponsored research agreements and contracts that contain outstanding terms or require specific input to ensure a consistent approach and to protect MSK's interests.
4. Manage and lead all aspects of ORPAs consulting agreement workflow, including the review of all notice of awards received in ORPA and subsequent outreach to the MSK research teams and negotiation with the consultants.
5. Manage and supervise the submission and acquisition of federally required Uniform Mentorship audit reports to and from all collaborating institutions; analyze Sub-recipient Risk Assessment documentation of collaborating institutions to assess risk.
6. Provides support to MSK research community during development and submission of responses to contract-specific Requests for Proposals (RFPs) or other contracts/agreement mechanisms.

You are:

1. Self-motivated and willing to take action, with a demonstrated ability to establish relationships, prioritize and multi-task on parallel projects
2. Able to make sense of sophisticated, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively evaluate a situation and move transactions forward
3. Customer-focused and interested in teamwork
4. Adept at planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with institutional goals
5. A strong communicator that can easily interact with a diverse group of individuals, including in the negotiation of agreements with external parties

You have:

1. 2-4 years legal experience, preferably in an academic or for-profit institution with a focus on sponsored research contracting
2. An ability to develop and complete projects with minimal direction
3. Experience negotiating agreements, including sponsored research agreements
4. Knowledge of pre-award and/or post-award research administration preferred

Pay Range $87,300.00-$139,800.00

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