Contract Specialist

Toole Design Group in Minneapolis, MN is looking to hire an experienced and talented full-time Contract Specialist. Do you value organization and efficiency? Do you have good judgment and a passion for managing risk? Do you enjoy spotting inconsistencies and staying on top of deadlines? If so, you could be an ideal candidate for our Contracts Specialist position. As a Contracts and Compliance Specialist, you will develop and review agreements with clients and partners to manage the firm's risk. Would you like to work for a firm that is committed to the well-being of its employees? If so, please consider joining our Minneapolis team.

This Contract Specialist position with a focus on processing agreements and managing risk earns a competitive salary and great benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, a health savings account (HSA), and a flexible spending account (FSA). We practice what we preach and ensure that our employees also have access to transportation by providing them with financial incentives to bike, walk, or use transit for a better quality of life.

About Toole Design

Toole Design is the leading engineering, planning, and landscape architecture firm specializing in multimodal transportation. Since our start in 2003 as a single office in Maryland, we have expanded throughout the United States and Canada. Our talented team of planners, landscape architects and engineers are committed to delivering quality work that meets the needs of all people, regardless of age, ability, race or gender. We have been named a "best firm to work for" and have one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the industry.

Every project our employees deliver directly and positively affects our communities. We are industry-leading experts, and we work hard to encourage a collaborative and team-oriented environment.

A Day in the Life of a Contract Specialist

The Contract Specialist will apply knowledge of contract principles to administer contracts and identify potential or existing contract risk or issues and provide solutions. The Contract Specialist will assist the team in contract administration of Toole's subcontractors and vendors, support and recommend actions to ensure mutually satisfactory performance on contracts including processing, reviewing, and drafting.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contract review
• Contract administration
• Administrative duties for coordination of contract completion

We are targeting a salary range of $60,000 to $80,000 for this position.

Qualifications of a Contract Specialist

• A Bachelor's Degree or Paralegal Certificate; additional experience considered in lieu of a degree
• 3+ years working with Contract Reviews OR working in the legal field
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook)
• Knowledge of a professional services business environment is a plus

You'll be great here if:

• You thrive on a values-based, mission-driven team
• You are detail-oriented and have strong organizational skills
• You have strong communication skills
• You enjoy managing new initiatives and enhancing process efficiency
• You are comfortable in a deadline-driven environment
• You are service-oriented, and take satisfaction in a job well done

Work Schedule for a Contract Specialist

This full-time position typically works a flexible schedule of 40 hours a week. We also provide employees with the flexibility and necessary equipment to work from home 2-3 days per week.

About our Minneapolis office:

Toole Design's Minneapolis office is conveniently located downtown at 212 3rd Avenue N, near to the Mississippi River and Cedar Lake bike trail systems and walking distance from Metro Blue, Green, Orange, and C line Stations. The office is easily accessed on foot, by bicycle, and via transit.

Located in the North Loop neighborhood in the historic Colonial Warehouse building, the office is inside the former headquarters of the city's streetcar company. Our windows overlook the Cedar Lake Trail which most of our staff use to bike to work each day, sometimes with a canine in tow (our building is dog-friendly). You will also find Minneapolis staff conducting "walking meetings" to the nearby Mississippi River, taking transit nearly anywhere in the region, or hopping on bike share to attend meetings. Our Minneapolis team is known for its collaborative engineers, planners, landscape architects, and urban designers who are committed to a culture of innovation, excellence, and fun.

Ready to Join our Minneapolis Team? We understand your time is valuable, so we have a quick and easy application process. If you feel that you would be right for this Contract Specialist position, please fill out our application by clicking on the link on this page.

At Toole Design, diversity is a necessity, not a nice-to-have. We have a collaborative culture where people of all backgrounds come together to share ideas and build better, more inclusive communities. We encourage those from underrepresented communities - women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, those with disabilities and people at all the intersections in between - to apply. Even if you don't think your current skill set checks every box below, but this role seems to align with your strengths, we want to hear from you.

We're proud that about half of our managers are women and are committed to achieving racial diversity in our leadership as well. Toole Design is a woman-owned business and an equal opportunity employer (EO/AA/VEV/Disabled employer).

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