Senior Associate General Counsel Full-time Job

Key Responsibilities

Legal Work:

Provides guidance and legal advice to all academic and administrative areas of NYUAD, focusing on sponsored research, applied research, commercialization, intellectual property, licensing, technology transfer, research compliance, research translation and entrepreneurship, and education portfolios of NYUAD

Advise on compliance with sponsor requirements and research integrity standards

Guidance and advice relate primarily to NYUAD's sponsored and collaborative research, research compliance, intellectual property rights and assets, innovation, student entrepreneurship, research ventures

Oversee the management of the university's intellectual property portfolio, including patent prosecution, copyright registration, and trademark protection

Collaborate with researchers and the technology transfer office to identify and evaluate the commercial potential of university research outcomes

Advise on strategies for the protection and commercialization of university intellectual property

Advise on student academic performance and integrity issues including policy and procedures relating to misconduct

Supporting university compliance framework for legal, regulatory, compliance, and risk management and compliance with national standards of academic and operational performance for higher education institutions

Cloud computing, software licensing, SaaS, data governance, privacy, and information security

Compliance with UAE and US federal funding and sponsorship laws and regulations, and NYUAD’s related policies and procedures to facilitate review of start-up enterprises in furtherance of the University’s innovation and economic development initiativesAdvises on the formation of, and the taking of equity ownership or investment in, start-up companies; student initiatives, incubation and acceleration programs and other matters that facilitate NYUAD’s academic, education and research mission, strategy and operations

Drafts, reviews, negotiates, interprets, and advises on strategic transactions and contracts such as nondisclosure agreements, option agreements, memoranda of understanding, option agreements, intellectual property management agreements, sponsored research and collaboration agreements, license agreements, material transfer agreements, sponsorship agreements, gift agreements, NDAs, interinstitutional/cotutelle agreements, software licensing agreements, and SaaS agreements, and IP provisions in a host of other institutional contracts

Works with the Office of Compliance on matters related to conflicts of interest and export controls/trade compliance, the Office of Research Compliance, Strategy and Policy on research security and integrity, research misconduct, and research compliance like IRB, IACUC, and lab safety; and with other University departments that are responsible for privacy, policy management, enterprise risk, and financial matters

Conducts legal and due diligence research on various legal and business matters

Supports the Chief Counsel by advising on applicable laws, regulations, and NYUAD’s policies, programs, practices, and activities that are affected by legal considerations

Works with NYUAD stakeholders to find effective, reasonable, practical solutions to challenging legal and business problems

Generally supports the workload of the legal team as the available capacity allows

NYU Abu Dhabi is pioneering a new model of higher education for a global world, dedicated to excellence in teaching and research and to advancing cooperation and progress on humanitys shared challenges.
Drawing on the strengths of the NYU global network, it offers an outstanding liberal arts and sciences education to students from the United Arab Emirates, the United States, and around the world, with a distinctive focus on intercultural understanding and leadership.
It supports innovative research and graduate education programs that push forward the frontiers of knowledge and respond in powerful and interdisciplinary ways to vital global and local challenges.
NYUAD advances NYU as a model university for the 21st century and contributes in multiple ways to the development of a sustainable, knowledge-based economy in Abu Dhabi.
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