Contracts Assistant
Trident Media Group, L.L.C, New York City, NY USA
Salary min: $30,000.00
Salary max: $40,000.00
Level: Entry Level
Duration: Full Time
The Contracts Assistant will assist the Business Affairs department and work closely with the Foreign Rights team. The position includes working in a fast-paced, busy, and dynamic office.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with the Business Affairs department and Trident's foreign rights agents to prepare drafts of foreign publishing contracts based on Trident's boilerplate agreement and do a line-by-line review of those contracts prepared by foreign sub-agents
- Correspond with foreign publishers during the contract negotiation phase
- Track the progress of contracts from initial request until they are fully executed
- Maintain and continually update the domestic and foreign contracts status charts
- Distribute domestic and foreign status charts to agents on a weekly basis
- Prepare initial draft of Trident's agency agreements
- Respond to contract status inquiries from agents and assistants
- Perform general administrative duties
*** Additional job responsibilities may be assigned
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- Strong organization skills and a willingness to work to get the job done
- Experience with legal terminology and contracts and/or paralegal experience a PLUS
- Excellent people and communication skills
- METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL with the ability to multi-task
- Extremely professional and articulate
- Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Cover letter and Resume required
About Trident Media Group, L.L.C
Trident Media Group (TMG) is a prominent literary agency in New York City dedicated to championing authors throughout their careers. Founded in 2000, TMG represents a wide range of bestselling and distinguished authors, as well as newly emerging authors. Our clients have won major literary awards and prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the P.E.N. Faulkner Award, the P.E.N. Hemingway Award, and The Booker Prize, among others.
Our diverse group of literary agents are skilled in all genres of fiction and nonfiction. With an eye toward innovation, our clients are supported by dedicated departments in all areas of rights and career management. TMG’s robust Foreign Rights Department leads the industry in sales of both fiction and nonfiction abroad. Our author services include Digital Media & Marketing, Business Affairs & Administrative services, and Film & Dramatic rights sales.