Sr Officer-Contracts

• Job Type: Officer of Administration
• Regular/Temporary:
  Regular
• Hours Per Week: 35 hrs/wk
• Salary Range: $105,000 - $115,000

Additional salary information:
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, and training. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Columbia Technology Ventures is the technology transfer office for Columbia University and a central location for many of the technology development initiatives, entrepreneurial activities, external industry collaborations, and commercially-oriented multidisciplinary technology innovations across the university. CTV's core mission is to facilitate the transfer of inventions from academic research labs to the market for the benefit of society on a local, national, and global basis.

Each year, CTV manages more than 400 invention disclosures, 100 license deals, and 20 - 30 new IP-backed startups, involving over 750 inventors across Columbia's campuses. CTV currently has over 1,500 patent assets available for licensing across research fields such as bio, IT, clean tech, devices, big data, nanotechnology, materials science, and more.

CTV has extensive experience in funding and supporting technology initiatives to enable promising technologies to accelerate across the "valley of death" and reach the market as quickly and successfully as possible. Many of these initiatives are explicitly multi-institutional, requiring extensive collaboration with our peer universities and their tech transfer offices. A few of the organizations CTV has been instrumental in establishing are the Power

Bridge

NY clean energy proof-of-concept center, the NYC Media Lab, and the Columbia Biomedical Technology Accelerator (Columbia Biomed

X), formerly the Columbia-Coulter Translational Research Partnership. In addition, Translational Therapeutics (TRx) Resource was launched in 2016, in collaboration with the Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research and the Clinical Trials Office, to advance novel therapeutics from the lab towards the path of commercialization and clinical implementation.

CTV's efforts are backed by 45 full-time staff and an additional 30+ graduate student interns (CTV Fellows), providing broad support to the Columbia community and other stakeholders with marketing, legal (patents, contracts, etc.), business start-up help, and administrative tasks. CTV also runs an Executive-in-Residence program, which brings seasoned industry executives, serial entrepreneurs, and investors to campus to support faculty and student entrepreneurial activities.

CTV is advertising for two Senior Contracts Officers to work as part of our Contracts Team.

Act as part of the Contracts Team to independently manage various agreement types from initiation to completion in a timely, efficient, and thorough manner. Partners with Licensing Officers to ensure proper execution of agreements. This includes activities such as:

• Reviewing agreements to ensure that the terms comply with applicable laws & regulations, Federal guidelines, University statutes, and Office of General Counsel policies, and also to ensure that the terms do not conflict with pre-existing University obligations;
• As necessary, discussing agreement terms in view of the proposed research, nature of material, University’s pre-existing technology portfolio, etc., with University scientists and technology licensing officers in order to fully appreciate University’s obligations under agreements;
• Redlining necessary changes to agreements;
• Forwarding redlined agreements with comments to outside parties tech transfer officers/legal counsel for consideration;
• Negotiating mutually-acceptable changes to agreements with outside parties tech transfer officers/legal counsel;
• Ensuring that Columbia’s Office of the General Counsel approves the execution copies (for certain agreement types);
• Coordinating signatures to agreements by the University…