• Career development and professional support
  
• Work in a leading scientific environment with dedicated professionals
  
• Join Australia's premier research organisation and make a difference!

The Position

An opportunity has become available for a Contract Manager/Paralegal to assist the CSIRO Contract Administration team support CSIRO’s research contract activities.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Preparation of contracts related to CSIRO’s research activities (including some non–standard contracts requiring basic drafting and amending of legal terms)
  
• Liaising with internal clients to ensure project work programs and deliverables etc are clearly detailed within contracts
  
• Assist in maintaining our contract database and processing of signed contracts; and
  
• General contract support including the provision of advice to CSIRO commercial delegates on suitable contract terms and policy compliance.

Location:Clayton, VIC

Salary: $70k - $80k pa + superannuation

Tenure: Indefinite/Ongoing

Reference Number: 2010/658


To be successful in this position you must have:

• Strong paralegal knowledge, experience and/or qualifications relevant to contract preparation and administration;
  
• An exceptionally high attention to detail;
  
• Demonstrated ability to effectively identify and solve problems, make sound judgements and establish priorities; and
  
• Strong oral and written communication skills and relationship management experience.

Who we are:

CSIRO

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world. To find out more about CSIRO please visit http://www.csiro.au

The Business Group:

Contract Administration provides contract development and administration services. We do this by working with Legal, Business Development and Project Leaders and delivering best practice paralegal support and contract administration.

We support CSIRO’s external research-related contracting activities with industry, government and the community which relate to our external revenues (over $300 million per annum total).

Emphasis is on developing and implementing policy, practices and systems to deliver to identified best practice standards and agreed service levels to all stakeholders.

Applications close 15 September 2010.

Apply now by visiting our website : CSIRO CAREERS