Contracts Administrator

November 19

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Newsela

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Newsela is a fast-growing education technology startup with a single ambitious goal: Meaningful classroom learning for every student. We provide engaging, relevant instructional content for teachers that both educates and inspires. With nearly two million teachers signed up, Newsela is helping kids improve their reading skills in all 50 states and more than 150 countries. We seek passionate, creative employees with quick minds and warm hearts. If you believe that all students deserve a more rigorous, more personalized learning experience, please apply to join our team.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2013

💰 $100M Series D on 2021-02

📋 Description

• Assist with and/or drive opportunity assessments (RFQ/RFP), customer agreements, and vendor relationships. • Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of customer and third-party contractual relationships, including agreements with school districts, vendor agreements, content licensing agreements, master services agreements, work orders, amendments, NDAs, and others. • Pivot seamlessly between reviewing and negotiating inbound and outbound agreements, and be the primary point of contact for internal Newsela teams (Sales, IT, Finance, People, Product, Marketing, & Information Security) to liaise with the Legal team on commercial transactions. • Help escalate specific commercial transactional and privacy issues, as needed, to counsel for approval. • Interpret and explain complex contractual requirements and associated risks to internal business stakeholders and external parties.

🎯 Requirements

• You’re an experienced contract management professional with 2+ years as a contracts administrator negotiating complex agreements. • You have demonstrated experience partnering with business stakeholders to drive contracts to successful execution, and you’ve helped build efficient risk management frameworks to maximize efficiency and transparency. • You have demonstrated experience with government and commercial agreements, SaaS and software contracts, and technology procurement in general. • You’re comfortable navigating and updating contract lifecycle management, matter management, and electronic signature tools. • You possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, and are able to interpret and explain commercial and legal issues concisely and straightforwardly to a variety of audiences. • You have demonstrated success in managing multiple projects and contract negotiations simultaneously, and proactively manages teams, escalating issues when appropriate. • While not required, experience with Salesforce, Ironclad, Docusign, and/or managing and updating legal matters in a dedicated Jira board are a plus. • A certificate from an ABA approved paralegal or legal studies program is preferred, and JDs welcome.

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits with employer contribution to premiums and to HSA accounts. • Additional benefits such as pet insurance, free access to the Calm app, and more to help you stay healthy: mind, body, and soul. • We provide a monthly tech stipend to support your WFH needs! • Inclusive benefits to support you and your family, including parental leave, fertility support, adoption, and more! • Invest in your future with our 401(k) plan, which includes an employer match to help you build long-term financial security. • Flexible PTO plus 10 company holidays plus winter break (Dec 24th - Jan 1st). • Newsela offers an annual learning and development allowance to employees to attend external training sessions, classes, workshops, conferences, and educational materials to foster professional growth within their current role and career aspirations at Newsela. • No matter your role or department, the work you do each day helps share the future of education and improves the lives of students and teachers.