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UNC Health · 3 hours ago

Corporate Legal Specialist

UNC Health is an inclusive organization with a mission to improve the health and well-being of the communities they serve. The Corporate Legal Specialist provides comprehensive support in corporate governance, contract management, compliance, and legal operations, ensuring legal obligations are met and assisting in managing corporate records and contracts.

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Responsibilities

Corporate Governance & Entity Management: Maintain and update corporate records, including articles, bylaws, resolutions, and meeting minutes. Prepare and file annual reports, business registrations, and other required filings for domestic and international entities. Support board and committee meeting preparation, including materials, resolutions, and logistics. Coordinate corporate formation, dissolution, mergers, and other entity lifecycle activities
Contracts & Legal Document Management: Draft, review, and manage a broad spectrum of legal agreements—including those related to mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, non-disclosure, vendor, consulting, and service arrangements—ensuring alignment with corporate transactions and strategic objectives. Oversee contract lifecycle management—intake, routing, approval, execution, and recordkeeping. Partner with cross-functional teams to ensure all contracts adhere to internal policies, legal requirements, and enterprise risk management standards. Track and manage critical contract milestones, including renewal dates, expirations, and deliverables, to ensure timely compliance and performance
Compliance & Regulatory Support: Support company-wide compliance initiatives, including policy development, training, and reporting. Monitor and track regulatory filings, licensing renewals, and deadlines. Conduct research on laws, regulations, and legal issues impacting the organization. Assist in due diligence reviews, audits, and internal investigations
Legal Operations & Departmental Support: Assist with enterprise-wide legal operations initiatives to optimize workflows, technology platforms, templates for efficiency and scalability. Assist with partnering with senior leadership on cross functional projects, embedding legal risk management and compliance into strategic decision making. Manage legal workflows, templates, and department systems to improve efficiency. Support process innovation and governance frameworks that enhance transparency, standardization and operational excellence across the legal department. Champion data driven insights, project management and knowledge management to support informed decisions and continuous improvement. Contribute to process improvements, standardization efforts, and knowledge management within the Legal Department

Qualification

Legal support experienceContract managementCompliance knowledgeCorporate governanceAnalytical skillsCommunicationWriting skillsConfidentiality

Required

Bachelor's degree or equivalent
With a Bachelor's degree, requires three (3) years of legal support experience
With an Associate's degree, requires seven (7) years of legal support experience
Knowledge and understanding of practice areas, processes, procedures, rules, and regulations is required
Ability to identify and understand opportunities, issues and problems and convey information clearly and concisely
Demonstrates the ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information
Excellent communication, writing and analytical skills required

Company

UNC Health

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Our mission is to improve the health and well-being of North Carolinians and others whom we serve.

Funding

Current Stage
Late Stage

Leadership Team

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Chris Ellington
President UNC Health Care - Network Hospitals and EVP CFO UNC Hospitals at Chapel Hill
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Jeff Lindsay
President and Chief Operating Officer
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