Compliance and Contractors Associate

We are looking for a highly organised Compliance & Contracts Associate to manage the operations of our legal team, including contract and records compliance, and administration, process management, and document production. This role places you at the centre of an innovative legal team, with daily exposure to business operations and teams across one of the UK's leading AI companies. You will be responsible for developing and owning processes across Faculty's legal and governance work, ensuring efficiency and compliance and working closely with your team members in the legal team. You will also increasingly contribute to contract and document drafting and will be provided with training and mentoring to increase your capabilities. If you have a passion for legal operations and practice, a drive for personal and professional development and you are eager to learn more about the world of AI, this position is ideal for you.,

• Administering complete and accessible records of all Faculty's contracting activity, including updating contract management software (Ironclad) and managing internal storage systems (Google Drive).


• Managing responses to legal support requests, including triaging inbound queries, allocating requests, and workflow management.


• Managing NDAs and simple contracts with support from the Legal Team where required.


• Support the legal team with administration and project management tasks.


• Lead ad hoc projects to improve operations, organisation, and efficiency.


• Maintain and manage data privacy and other governance records and processes, including record-keeping, incident reports, and managing Article 30 requirements.


• Drafting and or negotiating contracts, according to experience.
  
  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


• Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.


• Experience in legal contracts, compliance management, GDPR, legal operations.


• Sharp, agile, and curious mind, with an ability and desire to learn fast and for personal and professional development.


• Strategic thinker who enjoys working in ambiguous environments, juggling multiple priorities


• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.


• High standards of integrity and discretion.


• Positive attitude, self-motivated, and works well under pressure.


• Team player who can operate effectively within a small, close-knit team.


• Ability to build good relationships and work effectively across Faculty's business and externally.


• High aptitude for technology and software products, with training provided for tools like Ironclad.


• Experience supporting public procurement bid documentation.


• Managing data incident responses, and data subject access requests.
  
  We are Europe's leading applied AI company, and saw its potential a decade ago - long before the current hype cycle.


We founded in 2014 with our Fellowship programme, training academics to become commercial data scientists.

Today, we provide over 300 global customers with industry-leading software, and bespoke AI consultancy for retail, healthcare, energy, and governmental organisations, as well as our award winning Fellowship.

Our expertise and safety credentials are such that OpenAI asked us to be their first technical partner, helping customers deploy cutting-edge generative AI safely.

Our high-impact work has saved lives through forecasting NHS demand during covid, produced green energy by routing boats towards the wind, slashed marketing spend by predicting customer spending habits, and kept children safe online.

AI is an epoch-defining technology. We want people to join us who can help our customers reap its enormous benefits safely., The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You'll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you'll learn something new from everyone you meet. You'll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it's built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.