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The role:
As the Contracts Administrator on Newsela’s Legal team, reporting to Commercial Counsel, you will assist with and/or drive opportunity assessments (RFQ/RFP), customer agreements, and vendor relationships. You will be primarily responsible for reviewing, drafting, and negotiating 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. You will 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. You’ll help escalate specific commercial transactional and privacy issues, as needed, to counsel for approval. You’ll also be responsible for interpreting and explaining complex contractual requirements and associated risks to internal business stakeholder and external parties. This role requires an advanced understanding of contractual terms and conditions, superior drafting skills, and experience managing multiple complex negotiations simultaneously in a high volume, rapidly growing technology company.
Why you’ll love this role:
Why you’re a great fit:
Base compensation range: $75,000–$85,000. Total compensation for this role also includes incentive stock options and benefits. This compensation range may be adjusted based on actual experience.
Why you’ll love working at Newsela:
Newsela takes authentic, real world content from trusted sources and makes it instruction ready for K-12 classrooms. Each text is published at five reading levels, so content is accessible to every learner. Today, over 3.3 million teachers and 40 million students have registered with Newsela for content that's personalized to student interests, accessible to everyone, aligned to instructional standards, and attached to activities and reporting that hold teachers accountable for instruction and students accountable for their work. With over 15,000 texts on our platform and multiple new texts published every day across 20+ genres, Newsela enables educators to go deep on any subject they choose.
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