Digital Technology Contracts Counsel

🇺🇸 Remote - North Carolina 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $120K - $140K 💻 Compliance 🗓️ October 27th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is hiring a Digital Technology Contracts Counsel. This junior-level position gives legal advice and transactional support on data privacy, information security, and technology purchasing, reporting to the Associate Vice Chancellor, Chief Privacy Officer, and Special Counsel. The counsel drafts and negotiates privacy and security terms in the university's technology agreements.

Highlights

Draft, review, and negotiate data privacy and information security terms in routine and moderate-risk technology contracts, including software-as-a-service, licensing, cloud, data processing, and managed services agreements.
Work with IT, privacy, information security, University Counsel, purchasing, and research administration teams to support compliant technology purchases.
Help the senior counsel triage and coordinate legal review of technology purchases.
Advise university units on technology purchases and the laws, regulations, and policies that apply, and train them on contracting practices.
Assist in developing contract templates and negotiation playbooks, and help resolve disputes with technology vendors.
Admission to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, with the ability to join the North Carolina State Bar, and a relevant post-baccalaureate degree or equivalent experience are required.
Experience negotiating technology transactions, including software-as-a-service and cloud agreements, is needed, along with knowledge of HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR, and NIST as they apply to contracts.
The hiring range is $120,000 to $140,000, and the position is fully remote for employees living in North Carolina.