[Hiring] Contract and Compliance Attorney @Post University

Role Description

The Post University Compliance & Contracts Attorney will serve as a legal advisor to institutional stakeholders (legal & regulatory team, faculty, and staff), with a focus on collaboration, as supervised by University Counsel. This position includes a significant amount of drafting, reviewing, revising and negotiating contracts and other business documents and policies to support in-person and online educational programs, ensuring compliance with law and University policy. This role is an exciting opportunity for an attorney who is looking to practice in-house and seeks to marry legal skills with business acumen.

Core Role Accountabilities

• Drafts, reviews, revises, and negotiates a variety of agreements including vendor and technology agreements, strategic partnerships and alliances, and agreements involving data privacy and security, international matters, and intellectual property.
• Reviews outgoing group student communications to ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and best practices.
• Provides legal advice relating to ethical operations and compliance.
• Assists with international compliance for our growing international student population.
• Assists with intellectual property matters as requested.
• Supports the legal and compliance groups with other matters as requested involving areas of law such as privacy, GLBA, GDPR, NCAA, FERPA, TCPA, Title VI, and marketing.
• Performs legal research, drafts and develops resource material, and performs educational outreach within the institution on legal and regulatory issues.
• May be asked to assist with problem-solving efforts related to student concerns and employment matters after gaining sufficient familiarity with University practices.
• Works in collaboration with associates throughout the University.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctorate degree from an accredited US law school.
• Must be admitted and in good standing in at least one state bar; attaining approved house counsel status in Connecticut is required.
• At least two years of experience practicing as a lawyer.
• Experience in higher education is welcome, but not required.
• Strong critical thinking and excellent legal analysis skills.
• Interest in developing expertise in contract review and key contractual provisions (such as copyright ownership, data privacy and protection, IT security, indemnification, insurance, etc.).
• Eager to learn and expand job knowledge to proactively keep abreast of changing regulations/statutes related to University business.
• Ability and desire to develop working knowledge of laws, regulations and policies related to higher education.
• Excellent attention to detail, organizational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding customer service skills.
• Superior drafting and negotiating skills.
• Strong research, writing, editing, and oral advocacy skills.
• Proficient computer skills (e.g., Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint).

Requirements

• This position is fully remote with very limited travel (<5%).
• Monday through Friday.