Contracts Manager - Hybrid Chicago Loop Office

Job description

JOB SUMMARY: Join NORC at the University of Chicago as a Contracts Manager, a key leadership role responsible for overseeing a complex contract portfolio while training, managing, mentoring, and developing a team of contracts professionals. This is an opportunity to impact one of the nation's most respected nonprofit, nonpartisan, and objective research institutions. As a Contracts Manager, you will help shape continued organizational growth by ensuring NORC’s legal agreements, risk assessments, and compliance practices are sound, strategic, and aligned with our mission. Location : Hybrid role based in either our Chicago Loop or Washington, D.C. office, with a minimum of six days per month in the office. DEPARTMENT: Contracts and Grants, Purchasing NORC’s Contracts and Grants Department is a growing and collaborative team of contracts and legal professionals that drafts, reviews, and negotiates all of the organization’s legal agreements. Analysis of legal agreements and identifying risks is a critical function of the Contracts department. Contracts also manages and advises on a wide variety of privacy, data governance, audit, and conflicts matters to ensure regulatory compliance. O...