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Job Description
Minimum Education
Juris Doctorate (J.D.) (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
2 years contracts review experience (Required)
Required Licenses and Certifications
Licensed in DC or able to become licensed to practice in DC 1 Year (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Document and Contract Support
Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
Teamwork/Communication
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
Safety
Juris Doctorate (J.D.) (Required)
Minimum Work Experience
2 years contracts review experience (Required)
Required Licenses and Certifications
Licensed in DC or able to become licensed to practice in DC 1 Year (Required)
Functional Accountabilities
Document and Contract Support
- Support the Children’s National legal team in identifying training opportunities and providing training to internal clients on relevant legal issues/good contracting practice.
- Provide initial review of contracts as assigned.
- Assist in the negotiation process for contracts as assigned. This will include counsel on contract interpretation, compliance, enforcement and administration.
- Create and revise template agreements as well as contract education tools for Children’s National.
- Provide support to other legal team members as needed to manage legal matters and escalate to Senior Counsel as necessary.
- Utilizing project management skills to implement process improvement for the contract process.
- Communicate and perform cross functionality by working closely with legal, compliance, risk, purchasing, grants and contracts, finance and other business functions.
- Other projects and matters as assigned.
- Provide day-to-day legal advice on regulatory, operational and transactional matters and provide advice in healthcare contracting and compliance with a focus on Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to HIPAA, Fraud and Abuse, Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark (general working knowledge of these laws preferred but not required).
- Support strategic initiatives and development of new programs and Legal Department processes.
- Demonstrated ability to make prudent, strategic and pragmatic decisions while working well with others in a diverse team environment to resolve complex issues effectively and efficiently.
- Perform due diligence and create diligence reports on transactional matters as needed and as assigned.
- Conduct legal research (international and domestic) as assigned.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex legal and regulatory issues into practical, actionable legal advice in a timely manner.
- Assist in the research, planning and preparation of education sessions and presentations.
- Assist with creation of education materials and templates for internal and external use.
- Provide excellent customer support via Contract Navigator Line and Contract Review email inbox.
- Assist with development of tracking tools for certain provisions within contracts (e.g., gross negligence, limitation of liability, insurance).
- Support of Legal/Compliance/Risk on the Intranet (SharePoint), development of survey tools, and other tasks as needed.
- Provide other client/customer support and support of contracts management system navigation as needed and/or assigned.
Organizational Accountabilities
Organizational Accountabilities (Staff)
Organizational Commitment/Identification
- Anticipate and responds to customer needs; follows up until needs are met
Teamwork/Communication
- Demonstrate collaborative and respectful behavior
- Partner with all team members to achieve goals
- Receptive to others’ ideas and opinions
Performance Improvement/Problem-solving
- Contribute to a positive work environment
- Demonstrate flexibility and willingness to change
- Identify opportunities to improve clinical and administrative processes
- Make appropriate decisions, using sound judgment
Cost Management/Financial Responsibility
- Use resources efficiently
- Search for less costly ways of doing things
Safety
- Speak up when team members appear to exhibit unsafe behavior or performance
- Continuously validate and verify information needed for decision making or documentation
- Stop in the face of uncertainty and takes time to resolve the situation
- Demonstrate accurate, clear and timely verbal and written communication
- Actively promote safety for patients, families, visitors and co-workers
- Attend carefully to important details - practicing Stop, Think, Act and Review in order to self-check behavior and performance
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