Governance and Legal Services (GALS) delivers progressive and comprehensive expertise, helping unlock potential to achieve operational excellence and impact. The Legal Services team is cross-functional, sitting within the wider Assurance Services team, supporting the activities of all teams in GALS and across the University.The purpose of the role is to draft and negotiate contracts, and provide a pragmatic, business driven service, balancing and assessing risk, to effectively facilitate operational delivery, assurance, policy development and compliance with the laws of Malaysia and Ordinances of the University.**; Requirements**: - Key**Responsibilities**:Legal and Contractual Advice- Review, draft and negotiate a range of research and commercial contracts covering the full spectrum of commercial related activities, including complex commercial and non-commercial collaborations, agreements relating to industry sponsored collaborations, Malaysia contracts and consortium agreements, along with studentships, NDAs, consultancy and material transfer agreements, and other agreements as directed.- Provide clear, pragmatic advice on the implications of contractual terms, using a comprehensive working knowledge of contract issues, such as confidentiality, publication requirements, intellectual property, VAT (Sales and Service Tax) and other related issues.- Ensure that contractual terms meet the University's approved contractual position, or that variations to such requirements are highlighted and appropriately managed, in liaison with relevant individuals.- Ensure that institutional risk is identified and appropriately assessed within each contract.- Ensure that contractual terms are clear and appropriate.- Interact with external clients to negotiate agreements as appropriate.Assurance- Co-ordinate risk management activities for the Malaysia Campus, liaising with senior stakeholders to ensure that risk registers are accurately maintained and input to global risk reporting processes.- Develop an understanding of the Malaysia Campus insurance requirements and arrangements and act as a co-ordinator for local insurance queries, annual renewal processes and claims.- Liaise and co-ordinate with Internal Audit for audits being undertaken at the Malaysia Campus.- Act as local co-ordinator and lead for Malaysia Campus business continuity planning and contingency arrangements.- Provide support to the global team in respect of travel assurance processes for students and staff travelling on University business. Provide cover for the Group Assurance Services team on all related assurance activities.Customer Liaison and Management- Work closely with the business development lead, to ensure that the contractual terms address the needs of the Campus, whilst ensuring that the University is not exposed to unnecessary legal risk, and that the contractual terms cover all aspects of the activity to be carried out.- Ensure that internal customers (Board, Senior Executive Group, PS Heads and Associate Heads of School) and the project leads are kept regularly informed of the status of contract development / negotiation and are appropriately involved with the process.- Ensure that contractual terms are appropriately explained to internal customers, and that they understand any implications.- Interact with external customers, as appropriate, to communicate clearly and concisely the points of negotiation.- Ensure a good working relationship with both internal and external customers.Policies- Develop and maintain a good understanding of the University's policies.- Develop and maintain a good understanding of post-award processes to inform pre-contractual negotiations and arrangements.- Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant regulatory requirements and/or policy issues.- Contribute to the development of the policy environment including those around intellectual property, consultancy and knowledge exchange.- Assess the nature and level of risk associated with agreements and use professional judgement to deploy appropriate measures to manage such risk.Training and Development- Contribute to the development and delivery (as required) of training for internal stakeholders.- Participate in centralised training co-ordinated by GALS.Team Working and Collaboration- Build, develop and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of staff.Other- Manage own time and priorities workload in a complex multitask, high throughput environment frequently handling conflicting aspirations of the parties involved- Work effectively within procedures and management systems.- Keep electronic file management systems up to date.- Contribute to the regular review and development of internal procedures and systems.- Provide cover for the other members of the Group Legal/Assurance Services Team during times of holidays, absence and others, as required.- Such other duties or changes to the above duti
