About this role
Job Summary
At Purdue University, your expertise can help students turn ideas into experiences that strengthen the Boilermaker community. As the Contract Administrator for the Business Office for Student Organizations (BOSO), you will lead contracting activities for recognized student organizations, helping students and campus partners navigate agreements while protecting university interests and supporting successful programs and events. In this role, you will serve as a trusted resource for students, staff, vendors, and university partners, applying your expertise in contracts, risk management, and compliance to help student organizations confidently move their plans forward.
Responsibilities Include
- Develop, review, negotiate, and approve or deny contracts associated with recognized student organization activities.
- Identify and assess contractual, organizational, and university risk considerations.
- Serve as the primary resource for student organization contract questions and vendor relationships.
- Advise students and staff on contractual requirements, procedures, and issues.
- Manage contracts from initial submission through review, approval, and completion.
- Partner with the Office of Legal Counsel and Procurement Services to ensure contracts and administrative processes align with university standards.
- Monitor contractual practices and processes to support compliance, consistency, and effective risk management.
- Identify opportunities to improve contracting processes and the overall experience for student organizations and campus partners.
What Sets Us Apart This role combines contract administration and risk management with direct student impact. You'll help student leaders bring events, programs, and experiences to life while building partnerships across Purdue and ensuring activities move forward responsibly.
What We're Looking For
- Required: Education and Experience: Bachelor’s Degree in Law and Legal Studies, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- Two years of experience in higher education, student services, customer service, contract negotiation, and/or finance and accounting.
- Skills Needed: Demonstrated ability to clearly and timely communicate, verbally and in writing.
- Demonstrated active listening and consideration skills.
- Ability to inspire and foster team commitment, facilitation of cooperation, and achieve common goals in a positive and effective manner.
- Demonstrated ability to manage and resolve conflicts in a constructive manner.
- Demonstrated customer service focus and accountability.
- Self-starter, open to change and new ideas, and ability to adapt rapidly to new information, changing conditions or unexpected obstacles.
- Willingness to go above and beyond job description to ensure success of a project.
- Problem solving ability, including identifying and analyzing issues, weighing relevance and accuracy of information, then generating and evaluating alternative solutions; making sound decisions and recommendations based on balanced consideration of facts, priorities, resources, constraints, and alternatives.
- Demonstrated ability to appropriately use and apply organizational skills and technology to accomplish work activities.
- Demonstrated continual learning attitude with ability to develop new job knowledge/skills, including staying abreast of technological developments.
- Demonstrated ability to balance workload and effectively complete assignments in a multi-task and multi-deadline environment.
What is Helpful: Knowledge and ability to handle contractual administration matters. Additional Information: To learn more about Purdue’s benefits summary CLICK HERE Purdue will not sponsor employment authorization for this position A background check will be required for employment in this position FLSA: Non-Exempt (Eligible For Overtime) Retirement Eligibility: Non-exempt Defined Contribution Plan Career Stream Professional 2 Pay Band S060 Job Code #20002204 Purdue University is an equal opportunity/equal access university.