Legal Services Role
This is a unique opportunity to work autonomously in an in-house legal team, utilising your technical legal skills.
The Legal Services team provides practical, timely and accessible legal advice to the organisation. This includes preparing and reviewing critical legal documentation, supporting officer development through training and resource production on legislative and compliance issues, managing the external legal services panel and identifying strategic legal issues and risks.
As a Legal Counsel, you will be working closely with business specialists in Governance, Risk and Assurance. You will be trusted to manage your own matters while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and empowering officers through legal training.
The ideal candidate will be dynamic, robust and have a character orientated around solutions. They will be commercial, hardworking and accountable.
* Preparing and reviewing critical legal documentation
* Supporting officer empowerment and development
* Managing the external legal services panel
* Identifying and briefing executive officers
* A demonstrated capacity in efficiently managing matters and your own workload and workflow
* An ability to analyse issues and make sound recommendations, and a firm but accessible approach which allows your advice to be disseminated by all levels of the organisation
2. Autonomy and support
3. Flexible and modern work environment
4. Strong organisational culture and purpose
5. Perks that support employees