Management Intern

Arizona State University•Scottsdale, AZ

1d•$21 - $26•Hybrid

About The Position

ASU Knowledge Enterprise is seeking a focused and responsible Management Intern to provide assistance to the Contracting Services (CS) team. CS supports faculty and staff from various colleges, schools, and departments in their efforts to apply for grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements. CS specifically plays a role in Research Operations by preparing, reviewing, negotiating, and monitoring complex and non-complex contracts for research-related projects to ensure compliance with university, sponsor, ABOR, federal, state, and local laws and regulations. In this role, under general supervision of the CS staff, the management intern will work on a variety of tasks and projects to support the Contracting team from responding to inquiries and requests from staff and external parties including providing guidance as to processes to preparing agreements based upon standard ASU templates. This position requires the ability to be organized. This would be an ideal position for a law student or a student interested in a law career.

Requirements

High School Diploma and two-years (2) experience appropriate to the area of assignment/field; OR, Any equivalent combination of experience and/or training from which comparable knowledge, skills and abilities have been achieved.
Excellent communication skills
Ability to work independently
Experience with Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and Outlook
Ability to learn new computer tasks

Nice To Haves

Basic legal knowledge would be helpful.
Law student or pre-law preferred

Responsibilities

Prepare, draft, and monitor complex or non-complex Agreements, including Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA), Material Transfer Agreements (MTA), and possibly some Services and Sponsored Research agreements.
Complete a variety of daily/weekly/monthly tasks using written job aids and guidance.
Assist with triaging agreement tasks with the assistance of staff.
Work and communicate with, and provide administrative and technical assistance to, ASU departments and Sponsors related to the ASU Contracts process.
Prepare pre-drafted correspondence and documents as needed.
Perform some data entry type tasks within Excel, Word, or ASU’s Enterprise Research Administration (ERA) system.
Perform other duties as assigned in furtherance of the ASU and Contracting Services mission.