Contracts Coordinator Associate

Job Description

Contracts Coordinator Associate (External Agency Staff)

The Contracts Associate is responsible for performing a variety of activities in support of the National Football League's commercial and other businesses. These activities, which may be highly confidential and sensitive, will require strong drafting, organizational, and technical skills. The Contracts Associate will work independently and serve as a liaison between certain business units (e.g., consumer products, sponsorship) and a team of in-house corporate and commercial attorneys.

Responsibilities:
• Prepare and generate, accurately and in a timely manner, commercial contracts and related documents (e.g., consumer products licensing, sponsorship agreements, consulting agreements, venue rental agreements, non-disclosure agreements) from existing forms and update existing forms, as requested
• Initiate drafts of basic amendments and other legal documents (e.g., non-disclosure agreements, RFPs, liability and publicity waivers and releases)
• Review TV shows, movies, advertisements and other programming, content and promotional materials that incorporate NFL intellectual property to ensure compliance with NFL policies and guidelines, including alignment with NFL branding
• Prepare charts and spreadsheets of agreement deal terms
• Maintain a process for ensuring the completeness of the execution process and electronically filing all final, executed documents
• Balance requests and supervision from multiple attorneys at the same time
• Work closely and maintain a professional relationship with certain business units, including consumer products and sponsorship
• Coordinate directly with business units and third parties on contract requirements and approval process
• Manage contract database for Legal department
• Perform any other assigned duties

Required Qualifications:
• Degree from an accredited 4-Year College or University
• At least 2 years of experience in an in-house transactional legal role (paralegal, contracts administrator or similar) or in a law firm corporate department
• Room to hire for potential
Other Key Attributes / Talent Characteristics:
• Ability to work independently with minimal oversight
• A strong ability to multi-task and excellent attention to detail
• Comfortable in a fast-paced, high-volume workplace environment
• Must have exceptional initiative, judgment, prioritizing, and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written communication abilities
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint
• Ability to work on projects requiring a high level of discretion and confidentiality
• Willing to work overtime, when necessary

Salary / Pay Range

This job posting contains a pay range, which represents the range of salaries or hourly rates that the NFL believes, in good faith, at the time of this posting that it might be willing to pay for the posted job in the location(s) specified. The NFL expects to hire for this position near the middle of the range. Only in truly rare and exceptional circumstances, where an external candidate has experience, credentials, or expertise that far exceed those required or expected for the position, would the NFL consider paying a salary or rate near the higher end of the range.

Terms / Expected Hours of Work
• Non-Exempt
• This job posting is for a position with one of the NFL's third-party agency partners that provides services to the NFL. The individual selected for this role will be an employee of that third-party agency and not the NFL. All compensation, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment are handled by the agency. The assignment to provide services to the NFL will be limited in duration but may be extended for an additional period by agreement between the NFL and the agency.

Salary

$35
- $40 USD

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re7kx2-3-16-212-203-42 in your application.