Paralegal/legal Assistant

CK Group are working in partnership with Avacta to recruit a Paralegal to be based in West London on a permanent basis.

Avacta’s mission is to shape the future of treatment for cancer patients by developing safe and efficacious treatments and powerful research and diagnostic tools. The Therapeutics business has secured brand new offices and labs at Scale Space located on the Imperial College London’s White City Campus in West London.

Avacta is building the foundations for a strong and vibrant therapeutics division and is now actively involved in developing novel cancer therapies based on its two proprietary platforms – Affimer® biotherapeutics and pre|CISION™ tumour targeted chemotherapy.

Why Join Avacta? Avacta Life Sciences is poised to move both its pre|CISION™ and Affimer platforms into the clinic across a number of oncology settings with high unmet need. This is an exciting opportunity to join the therapeutics team at the very beginning of its growth journey and to contribute to building and shaping the team to bring novel cancer treatments to patients.

In February 2021, the MHRA approved Avacta’s first Clinical Trial Authorisation (CTA) in the UK for a Phase 1, first-in-human, study of its lead pre|CISION™ prodrug, AVA6000, in patients with locally advanced or metastatic selected solid tumours. They have entered their first clinical trial in the UK and hope to follow in the US.

In January 2022, Avacta announced that the next pre|CISION™ drug candidate, AVA3996, has been selected for pre-clinical development with a view to a first-in-human Phase I clinical trial beginning in the second half of 2023.

Pipeline In addition to being in the clinic with its lead pre|CISION™ targeted chemotherapyprogramme in mid-2021, Avacta also has a pre-clinical Pipeline of both and Affimer® and pre|CISION™ oncology candidates.

The Role of Paralegal.

You will play a critical role in formalizing and building Avacta’s legal capabilities for Therapeutics R& and will be responsible for engaging leaders to develop the overall legal vision and strategy and drive its execution. You will possess a proven track record of drafting and reviewing commercial, research, consultancy agreements and confidentiality disclosure agreements (CDAs).

Role & Responsibilities:

• Engage senior leaders and other key stakeholders to ensure legal documents are managed accordingly and processes are optimised to support a fast-paced oncology-focused business
• Support colleagues with their requests for legal documents
• Draft legal document and proofread documents
• Organise files of legal documents within the contracts database
• Perform administration, including filing and logging of legal documents and letters
• Coordinate efforts with key functions to support from a legal perspective: new strategic business opportunities, collaborations, acquisitions, partnerships, alliances, licensing deals, and/or joint ventures
• Act as the point person forall legal matters

To be considered for the position, you should have the following skills:

• Educated to degree level or above with a relevant legal qualification e.g. Graduate Diploma in Law as well as experience in the law sector and also within biopharma or commercialisation arm of an academic institute.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Competence in working with legal teams (and utilising input from other stakeholders) to review and edit contracts

The benefits: Avacta offer an exciting range of benefits which includes:

• Private medical cover
• Annual performance related bonus of up to 10% of salary
• Life assurance
• Company pension scheme
• 25 Days annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Share Incentive Plans

Apply: It is essential that applicants hold entitlement to work in the UK. Please quote job reference 53261 in all correspondence.