Contracts Specialist (DIR058)

Are you a Commercial Contracts Specialist/Legal Adviser?

Do you want variety within your role?

If so, we invite you to consider a role in the University of West London’s Legal Services department.

Reporting to the Head of Legal Services, you will be part of a small team providing legal support across the University. 

The role entails reviewing and advising on commercial agreements; negotiating, amending and drafting legal agreements and general contracts management and management of legal databases.

The role offers great exposure to a wide range of commercial contracts from NDAs, academic agreements, licensing, research grant and collaboration agreements, Intellectual Property agreements, Subscriptions, IT services software, apprenticeship agreements to service agreements. The role will also involve communication with stakeholders and internal clients across the University.    

The University of West London is a top 50 UK University (Guardian University Guide 2019) based in Ealing, London.  The Legal Services department provides legal and compliance support to internal clients across all areas of University business and enterprise activities. 

You will be the right person if you are seeking to utilise your knowledge and experience to date and to expand upon it in an organisation with a wide range of commercial contracts and are able to work independently as well as with teams.  You will need a legal qualification such as LLB, GDL/CPE, provencommercial contracts experience together with excellent communication and interpersonal skills and attention to detail.

The role is for six months in the first instance and may be taken on a full or part-time basis

Closing Date: 24 Feb 2019
Category: Support