Interim Commercial Lawyer - Commercial Law Team
Reference no: Sheffield TCL 0008 AAAD / 1
Pay Rate: up to £33.30 per hour PAYE depending on experience (tbc)
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
City: SHEFFIELD
Please note that the pay rate is provisional
Hybrid working
Commercial Lawyer required for Local Authority Commercial Law team. Advising internal clients and liaising with other third parties in the giving of commercial advice and the drafting of commercial documents. Advising on the application of the Authority's constitution and any relevant procurement legislation.
Supporting a broad range of general commercial legal work from social care services to ICT to construction, with advice relating to subsidy control, grant funding and the opportunity to work on high value and strategic projects.
Key Responsibilities:
* Drafting commercial contracts and other commercial documents.
* Providing advice on existing and proposed commercial arrangements.
* Providing advice relating to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and subsidy control.
* General commercial legal advice.
* Commercial dispute resolution where necessary (pre-litigation).
* Advising the council's Pension Fund on a range of contract and commercial matters, including discharge of functions and liability agreements relating to the pension administration and investment functions carried out by Local Pensions Partnership Ltd, along with associated transactional work.
* Advising the council's Digital Service on a range of contract, commercial and procurement matters, including the procurement of hardware and software, software licences, the use of third-party frameworks and the council's role as a communications provider
* Assisting with the academy transfer process including drafting and negotiating of Commercial Transfer Agreements
NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.
To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF
If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
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