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. Our Contracts department is a dynamic and highly visible team within a growing nonprofit organization. In taking responsibility for assessing and advising on any potential risk to the organization, we are integral to ensuring NORC’s success.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The pay range for this position is $140,000 - $150,000.
This position is classified as regular. Regular staff are eligible for NORC’s comprehensive benefits program. Benefits include, but are not limited to:
Generously subsidized health insurance, effective on the first day of employment
Dental and vision insurance
A defined contribution retirement program, along with a separate voluntary 403(b) retirement program
Group life insurance, long-term and short-term disability insurance
Benefits that promote work/life balance, including generous paid time off, holidays; paid parental leave, bereavement leave, tuition assistance, and an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
NORC is committed to equity and transparency in its pay practices. We publish salary ranges and benefit information for every job. The listed hiring range reflects what we, in good faith, expect to pay at the time of posting, though actual compensation may vary and may be adjusted over time. A candidate’s placement within the range depends on factors such as competencies, education, qualifications, experience, skills, performance, and organizational needs.
WHAT WE DO:
NORC at the University of Chicago is an objective, non-partisan research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions. Since 1941, our teams have conducted groundbreaking studies, created and applied innovative methods and tools, and advanced principles of scientific integrity and collaboration. Today, government, corporate, and nonprofit clients around the world partner with us to transform increasingly complex information into useful knowledge.
For over 80 years, NORC has evolved in many ways, moving the needle with research methods, technical applications and groundbreaking research findings. But our tradition of excellence, passion for innovation, and commitment to collegiality have remained constant components of who we are as a brand, and who each of us is as a member of the NORC team. With world-class benefits, a business casual environment, and an emphasis on continuous learning, NORC is a place where people join for the stellar research and analysis work for which we’re known, and stay for the relationships they form with their colleagues who take pride in the impact their work is making on a global scale.
NORC is an equal opportunity employer. NORC evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, sexual orientation, and other legally protected characteristics.
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