Job Summary:
The Contracts Assistant will assist the Business Affairs department and work closely with the Foreign Rights team. The position includes working in a fast-paced, busy, and dynamic office.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with the Business Affairs department and Trident's foreign rights agents to prepare drafts of foreign publishing contracts based on Trident's boilerplate agreement and do a line-by-line review of those contracts prepared by foreign sub-agents
- Correspond with foreign publishers during the contract negotiation phase
- Track the progress of contracts from initial request until they are fully executed
- Maintain and continually update the domestic and foreign contracts status charts
- Distribute domestic and foreign status charts to agents on a weekly basis
- Prepare initial draft of Trident's agency agreements
- Respond to contract status inquiries from agents and assistants
- Perform general administrative duties
*** Additional job responsibilities may be assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong organization skills and a willingness to work to get the job done
- Experience with legal terminology and contracts and/or paralegal experience a PLUS
- Excellent people and communication skills
- METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL with the ability to multi-task
- Extremely professional and articulate
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $37,000 - $40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $37,000.00 - $40,000.00 per year
Ability to Relocate:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in New York, NY 10017
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