Strive to Bring a Profound Difference to our Patients

At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people’s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients. 

Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases: myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

The Opportunity

Avidity is looking for a Contracts Administrator to support the Legal Department and internal clients by submitting a high volume of contracts requests and tracking the requests through the contract negotiation, award and administration life cycle. This position will focus on submitting contract requests for the organization. Previous knowledge of contracts is required.

What You Will Contribute

• Serve as a liaison between Avidity, internal clients, and outside vendors to facilitate contract negotiation and execution.
• Enter contract requests into Avidity’s contracting system (Cobblestone) and ensure contracts move through the award process in a timely manner.
• Ensure contracts are signed in compliance with Avidity’s signature policy.
• Collaborate with Avidity clients to assess contract requirements, especially when client requirements may not be fully defined.
• Monitor progress of pending contract requests
• Obtain signatures of all parties on contracts through DocuSign
• Create records for all completed requests
• Monitor and follow-up on expiration alerts with the business
• Possibly draft/negotiate low-level contracts

What We Seek

•          Excellent oral and written communication skills

•          Demonstrate excellent attention to detail

•          Proficient in contract management systems

•          Understand legal terminology

•          Ability to act as a liaison between clients and Legal Department

•          Knowledge of contract language, types and relationships

•          Ability to work with a team at all organization levels

•          Ability to draft and edit low-level contracts (CDAs)

•          Strong attention to detail, self-motivated, and a quick learner.

•          Excellent organization and time-management skills.

What We will Provide to You:

• The base salary range for this role is $73,000 - $81,000. The final compensation will be commensurate with such factors as relevant experience, skillset, internal equity and market factors.
• Avidity offers competitive compensation and benefits which includes the opportunity for annual and spot bonuses, stock options and RSUs, as well as a 401(k) with an employer match. In addition, the comprehensive wellness program includes coverage for medical, dental, vision, and LTD, and four weeks of time off.
• A commitment to learning and development which includes a variety of programming internally developed by and for Avidity employees, opportunities for job-specific training offered by industry, and an education reimbursement program.