About ETS:

ETS is a global education and talent solutions organization enabling lifelong learners worldwide to be future-ready. For more than 75 years, we've been advancing the science of measurement to build benchmarks for fair and valid skill assessment across cultures and borders. Our worldwide impact extends through our renowned assessments including TOEFL®, TOEIC®, GRE® and Praxis® tests, serving millions of learners in more than 200 countries and territories. Through strategic acquisitions, we've expanded our global capabilities: PSI strengthens our workforce assessment solutions, while Edusoft, Kira Talent, Pipplet, Vericant, and Wheebox enhance our educational technology and assessment platforms across critical markets worldwide.

Through ETS Research Institute and ETS Solutions, we're partnering with educational institutions, governments, and organizations globally to promote skill proficiency, empower upward mobility, and unlock opportunities for everyone, everywhere. With offices and partners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas, we deliver nearly 50 million tests annually. Join us in our journey of measuring progress to power human progress worldwide.

In conjunction with Strategic Business Units (SBUs) and Functional Center of Excellence (FCEs) (as our internal customers) review and analyze the terms and conditions of bids/RFPs and non-RFP agreements to comply with corporate policy, guidelines, and procedures, guiding contract risk and legal and liability issues to the Strategic Bidding and business teams. Draft, negotiate, and administer contracts of varying degrees of complexity. This role ensures compliance with and adherence to local, state, and federal regulations/statutes and to ETS policies and procedures to protect financial, legal, and business interests. The Contract Manager works closely with and reports to the Office of the General Counsel.

Ensure compliance with and adherence to local, state, and federal regulations/statutes and ETS policies and procedures to protect ETS's financial, legal, and business interests. Function as GCO’s representative and advisor to internal customers on all revenue-generating business relationships-to-contract process phases.

Function within corporate policy and business best practices, facilitate corporate compliance tasks regarding Accessibility, FCPA, GDPR, IESA, PIA, etc., and maintain current knowledge of market conditions and trends. Demonstrate superior oral and written communication skills, contract law knowledge, contract content and structure knowledge, negotiation skills, and work organization skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field or commensurate appropriate business experience in lieu of a bachelor’s degree. Management experience is also required.

• MBA preferred. Management experience required.

• Minimum of six or more years of progressively responsible contract writing, negotiating, and managing experience within a transactional contract management organization

• Business Literacy - Required

• Financial Literacy - Required

• IT/Technology - Required

• Software - Required

• Contract negotiation/ development/execution - Critical

• Client Relations - Critical

• Legal/Contracts/Security - Critical

• Communication Skills (Written/Oral) - Critical

• Cross-Matrix Coordination (across ETS SBUs/FCEs) – Preferred

Responsibilities

• Analyzes contract requests based upon appropriateness, and conformance with corporate policies and goals.

• Provides support to the Office of the General Council

• Receives and analyzes replies to bid requests RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs.

• Reviews and analyzes third-party documents, if presented, i.e. contracts, leases, licenses, specifications, statements of work, and other such documents; proposes and negotiates changes; drafts amendments, modifications, and addenda; and alerts responsible parties to potential problems, liabilities, or unusual terms.

• Reviews all transactions in their earliest stages to ensure compliance with ETS accessibility requirements, FCPA, GDPR, information protection security (IESA), personally identifiable information (PIA), and credit card usage security (PCI), as applicable.

• Liaise with SBUs and (FCEs) regarding contractual provisions.

• Review final contracts for completeness and inclusion of negotiated terms before execution

• Demonstrates business maturity with strong interpersonal and communication skills suitable to interact with all levels of management, internal clients, and coworkers, promoting accuracy, efficiency, objectivity, fairness, and courtesy.

• Adhere to ethical standards and comply with the laws and regulations applicable to the job function.

• Manage all phases of GCO’s Agiloft Contract Lifecycle Management Software instance, including implementation and training of contract intake forms for all SBUs and FCEs, contract entry, approvals, and signatures through DocuSign. Transmit executed agreements for finance invoicing.

• Provide Agiloft support for inclusion of GCO instance data into ETS’ Federal Data Warehouse.

• Renew and maintain the System for Award Management (SAM), the Official U.S. Government system that consolidated the capabilities of CCR/FedReg, ORCA. And EPLS. Responsible for Grants.gov, which publishes federally funded government programs, and the Procurement Integrated Enterprise Environment (PIEE), the primary enterprise procure-to-Pay (P2P) application for the Department of Defense.

• Participate in the Government Compliance Steering Committee

• Provide contract information to the AVP Accounting for Deloitte’s Single Audit of government contracts.

• Respond to requests for contract information such as clauses pertaining to offshoring of federal awards.

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ETS believes in a Total Rewards philosophy for our employees, and they include:

• Health, Vision, Dental insurance plans to choose from

• Generous continuous learning support, from individual learning grants to up to 6 classes a year for tuition reimbursement as well as on-line learning access!

• Generous PTO and vacation time to balance your work and life

• Additional 8 hours of PTO for volunteer work

• Retirement plan (401(a)) and traditional Roth (403b) with company contribution

• Commuter Benefits, Pet Insurance, 1 year subscription to Calm App

ETS is mission driven and action oriented

• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging is at the forefront of the ETS employee's daily work. To further foster an inclusive environment ETS is home to a wide variety of Affinity groups that celebrate the diversity of our talented employees.

• How about cultivating growth, innovation, and continuous transformation for the next generation of rising professionals as leaders? ETS offers multiple Business Resource Groups (BRG) for you!

• Are you passionate about volunteering and being active in your career and community? ETS offers our Center for Advocacy & Philanthropy (CAAP) where we encourage ETS employees to become active volunteers in their communities and schools through the ETS Cares Giving Campaign. Our employees can support any 501c3 or eligible charity of their choice.

ETS is an Equal Opportunity Employer comprised of people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds who share a passion for advancing quality and equity in education. We are dedicated to building teams that reflect the various backgrounds, experiences, and identities of those we serve. The Talent Acquisition team strives to ensure candidates enjoy a fair and equitable hiring process. We believe our differences empower us to be a better team, making better decisions and delivering better results.