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Contracts Administrator

Reporting to the VP of Business Development, the Contract Administrator is responsible for tracking, communicating and ensuring that the company is in compliance with all of its contractual obligations.

Duties & Responsibilities

    Contract Administration
  • Track the progress of all contracts and ensure they are executed and distributed to applicable executives, talent, outside council, agents etc.
  • Maintain the status of the current filing system and executed contracts.
  • Maintain a centralized contract tracking system for the company.
  • Maintain files for all executed contracts entered into by the company for:
    • Development
    • Producers, Directors, Writers and key creatives (in-house and external)
    • Distribution;
    • Merchandising and Licensing; and
    • Production services work.
    • Independent contractors
  • Create and manage an in-house data-base that tracks all project options, rights and deliverables.
  • Set-up and maintain a system for communicating upcoming contractual obligations, providing enough advance warning to decision makers.
  • Coordinate all status and feedback of those contracts in negotiation.
  • As requested, support executives to act as company's liaison with its legal counsel, distribution and licensing agents, broadcasters, and 3rd party clients.
  • Arrange for execution of all contracts according to company policy.
  • Communicate contract terms to internal parties on a need to know basis.
  • Assess in-house IP contracts to analyse various rights and royalty payment obligations to and from the company. Provide an updated report on status of these projects.
  • Prepare IC agreements for outside contractors.

Qualifications

  • 2-3 years of experience in Contracts Administration
  • Extremely well organized.
  • Accurate, dependable, able to anticipate needs.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.
  • Exceptional interpersonal skills to deal with various internal and external customers.
  • Deadline oriented with tenacity to see a project to completion.
  • Excellent project management skills.
  • Attention to detail, ability to prioritize multiple tasks.
  • High degree of self-initiative, maturity, confidentiality and strong sense of business acumen.





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