Principal Paralegal
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education
Summary
The Principal Paralegal serves as the Legal Operations Lead for the department. This role is dedicated to system management, workflow optimization, tracking legal assets, contract intake triage, document retention, and financial administration of outside legal spend. The Principal Paralegal ensures that both attorneys and compliance leaders have structured, audited systems to execute their duties seamlessly.
Job description
Position Summary
The Principal Paralegal serves as the Legal Operations Lead for the department. This role is dedicated to system management, workflow optimization, tracking legal assets, contract intake triage, document retention, and financial administration of outside legal spend. The Principal Paralegal ensures that both attorneys and compliance leaders have structured, audited systems to execute their duties seamlessly.
Essential Job Duties and Functions
- System Administration (Compliatric): Serve as the super-user and primary system administrator for the Enterprise contract and compliance management software (Compliatric), ensuring 100% database accuracy and data integrity.
- Triage & Workflow Coordination: Manage incoming legal and contract requests, triage assignments to the Associate Attorney or In-House Counsel, and track deliverables against established SLAs.
- Contract Expiration & Renewal Tracking: Maintain accurate records of all active clinical affiliations, vendor contracts, leases, and agreements, generating proactive 60/90-day renewal/termination alerts for leadership.
- Outside Counsel Spend & Invoice Auditing: Audit outside legal counsel and consultant invoices against engagement letters and fee schedules prior to SVP approval, tracking overall department legal spend.
- Document Retention & Compliance Governance: Maintain official legal repositories, execute document retention/destruction schedules per Enterprise policy, and log corporate licensing and accreditation filings.
- Investigative & Audit Administrative Support: Organize evidence files, coordinate interview scheduling, and compile investigative binders for the Director of Corporate Integrity during formal audits or internal investigations.
Other Functions and Responsibilities
- Demonstrate the organization's Mission, Vision and Core Values in everyday work
- Represent the Enterprise at community events
- Build and nurture relationships through all levels of the Enterprise by demonstrating a genuine desire to develop enduring partnerships aligned around the achievement of common goals
- Foster and grow culture by having individuals and teams own their work to deliver amazing results
- Build trust, respect and collaboration in all business relationships
- Excel in a team environment, supporting and assisting the efforts of other team members
- Perform other related duties incidental to the work described herein
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies or a related field, or an ABA-approved Paralegal Certificate (or equivalent career experience)
- 5-7+ years of dedicated paralegal or legal operations experience, preferably in healthcare, corporate, or non-profit settings
- Demonstrated mastery of contract lifecycle management systems and workflows
- Strong drafting abilities for routine legal documents and correspondence
- Expert knowledge of legal technology (specifically Compliatric or similar contract life-cycle systems), process optimization, tracking metrics, and administrative organization
- Exceptional organizational, tracking, and detail-oriented skills
- Outstanding communication, collaboration and leadership skills
- Strong relationship-building skills with all departments and employees, executives, volunteer Directors and community leaders
- Exceptional attention to detail, organizational skills, and analytical thinking
- Unwavering ethical standards, commitment to whole-person care and community health
- The highest personal integrity with a demonstrable commitment to the mission of the organizations
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment
- Exceptional discretion with sensitive investigations, high accountability, team-oriented mindset, and alignment with the EOS model
- Buy in and experience working in the EOS model (strongly preferred)
- Mission-oriented; represents the enterprise in a professional manner while demonstrating organizational pride
Company overview
The Wright Center for Graduate Medical Education is a prominent healthcare provider and educational institution specializing in graduate medical education and public health services. As a leading organization in medical training, it focuses on developing the next generation of healthcare professionals through comprehensive residency and fellowship programs. The center operates as a community-based academic medical institution that integrates clinical practice with medical education, serving diverse patient populations across multiple locations. Its mission centers on providing high-quality, accessible healthcare while advancing medical education and research. The organization plays a crucial role in addressing healthcare workforce shortages by training physicians in various specialties, with particular emphasis on primary care and underserved communities. Through its innovative educational models and community health initiatives, The Wright Center contributes significantly to improving healthcare delivery and public health outcomes in the regions it serves.