Contracts and IP Administrator
Job No:
GC322
Location:
Darlinghurst
About Us
The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is one of Australia’s leading medical research institutes, with over 600 scientists, students and support staff. Our scientists are researchers who work towards making significant breakthroughs in scientific discovery to positively impact human health.
The Garvan Partnerships Office operates in a multi-disciplinary team environment covering science, legal and commercial/corporate disciplines. It undertakes four core functions for the Institute – researcher support, IP capture and management, commercialisation and industry engagement, and special projects.
About the role
The Contracts & Intellectual Property (IP) Administrator position has four main components:
- Contracts administration and processing for a wide range of transactions including confidentiality agreements, collaborative research & development agreements and licences
- Administration of the Garvan Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) system
- Patent portfolio administration, including determining action required from patent attorney correspondence, and ensuring files are up to date and liaising with the Partnerships Managers and researchers to obtain information to progress patent prosecution
- Executive support to the Corporate Counsel and the Partnerships Managers
This role is offered on a full time permanent basis.
About You
- You enjoy working with and developing processes and systems
- You like to be organised
- You get satisfaction out of providing high quality support to your internal and external clients
- You like to be in a friendly and vibrant work environment
Skills & Experience required for this role:
- Well-developed administrative skills with a minimum of three (3) years experience in a similar administrative role
- Experience in contract processing and data entry
- Strong attention to detail
- Computer literacy with experience in Word, PowerPoint and Excel
- Ability to deal with internal and external clients
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work unsupervised
- Outstanding organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise tasks and work to deadlines in a busy environment
- Previous experience in patent portfolio administration will be highly regarded
How to Apply
All applications must be submitted via Garvan’s careers website:
Please prepare and submit your application as per the directions below:
- A Cover Letter addressing the above skills and experience
- Your CV including 3 Referees
- Copies of relevant qualifications / academic transcripts
Closing date
Wednesday 23 November, 2016
Eligibility
Only applicants with full working rights in Australia are eligible to apply for this role.