Contracts Manager

What We Can Achieve Together The Contracts Manager serves as the contracts lead for the Northeast Division, providing leadership, oversight, and coordinated service delivery across the Division. The position also directly manages complex agreements and provides contract management, compliance, and stakeholder support for assigned Business Units and Division priorities. Working closely with Project Managers, Program Managers, Award Managers, Finance, Grants, Operations, Legal, and Division leadership, the Contracts Manager provides expertise on agreement structures, contracting strategies, compliance requirements, and organizational policies. The position promotes consistent practices, coordinates priorities and workloads, develops staff capabilities, and leads process improvements that strengthen compliance, service delivery, and operational effectiveness. The Contracts Manager administers and oversees contract management activities for the Northeast Division, ensuring agreements are developed, reviewed, executed, monitored, and closed in accordance with organizational policies, Delegation of Authority requirements, and risk management practices. The manager serves as an expert resource on contract administration, compliance requirements, and contracting best practices, providing guidance to staff and stakeholders on complex agreements and contractual matters. The role partners with Legal, Finance, Grants, Operations, and program staff to support effective contract management, resolve contract-related issues, strengthen organizational compliance, and advance continuous improvement efforts across the Division. Responsibilities & Scope Leads contract management services across the Northeast Division, establishing priorities, coordinating workloads, monitoring service delivery, and promoting timely, consistent, and compliant support across Business Units and Division priorities. Maintains oversight of the Division's contract portfolio and contract service delivery, identifying emerging workload, compliance, and risk issues and recommending appropriate resource or service-delivery adjustments. Serves as the divisional subject matter expert and escalation point for complex contracting matters, providing guidance on agreement structures, compliance requirements, risk considerations, organizational policies, and contracting best practices. Evaluates contractual, financial, compliance, operational, and reputational risks; recommends mitigation strategies; and escalates significant or unresolved matters to the appropriate organizational leaders and subject matter experts. Partners with Legal, Finance, Grants, Operations, program staff, and other stakeholders to resolve contract-related issues, mitigate risk, and support organizational objectives. Supervises, coaches, and develops contracts staff and provides functional guidance to others with contracting responsibilities, building capacity and fostering collaboration, accountability, customer service, and continuous improvement. Leads the development and implementation of processes, tools, training, service standards, and resources that improve compliance, operational effectiveness, and the stakeholder experience. Exercises significant independent judgment in resolving complex contract issues, prioritizing competing demands, allocating resources, and recommending solutions that balance organizational objectives with legal, financial, operational, and reputational risk. We’re Looking For You Are you looking for work you can believe in? At TNC we strive to embody a philosophy of Work that You Can Believe in where you can feel like you are making a difference every day. We’re looking for someone with strong experience in leading a diverse, multi-disciplinary team. The ideal candidate should have exceptional communication and collaboration skills and experience in management of controls and reports of a business unit. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the ongoing mission of …

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