Manager, Research Contracts

The incumbent provides expert guidance on all matters related to research contracts. The Manager Research Contracts specifically performs the following functions:

1. Provide leadership and oversight on all agreement services to the team in Office of Applied Research and Innovation (OARI), which is collectively responsible for protecting Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s applied research and innovation legal interests.
2. Establish and foster key relationships with OARI team members, Centre directors and senior leadership.
3. Negotiate directly and/or providing legal support for negotiations of research and innovation/commercialization agreements with Saskatchewan Polytechnic research staff as well as external organizations.
4. Provide advice to OARI leadership, OARI colleagues, and Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s researchers regarding research and innovation/commercialization contracts, intellectual property, and other research and innovation related legal questions.
5. Draft OARI related research and innovation/commercialization contracts, license agreements, confidentiality/non-disclosure agreements, data management agreements, material transfer agreements, and other legal instruments to ensure that requirements of Saskatchewan Polytechnic and its researchers are met.
6. Ensure compliance of OARI’s research and innovation/commercialization contracts within Saskatchewan Polytechnic’s policies and procedures, regulatory requirements, and applicable laws and regulations.
7. Provide advice with respect to institutional research and innovation/commercialization-related policies, procedures, and practices.
8. Work with Strategy, Finance, Human Resources, Researchers, centres and schools on issues related to institutional costs of research, budget calculations, and reporting on research contracts.
9. Serve as OARI’s liaison with internal and external lawyers, as required.
10. Provide regular reports to the Director, Applied Research and Innovation and ad hoc reports to senior leadership as required.