Job Description
UK Research & Innovation
Salary: £58,589 per annum
Band: UKRI Band F
Contract Type: Open ended
Hours: Full-time (flexible working available)
Location: Polaris House, Swindon, Wiltshire or Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon (Hybrid working available)
Closing Date: 22nd February 2026
About the role
You will work within the UKRI legal team and report to the Deputy Head of Legal (Commercial), providing sound, pragmatic and business-focused legal advice on a wide range of commercial legal issues affecting the functions and operation of UKRI. The work of UKRI Legal is broad and increasing in variety and complexity and the teams commercial work currently spans areas including large-scale projects and contracts, procurement, IP, property, company law, subsidy control and grant-giving. You will be expected to take a flexible approach and be able to quickly get up to speed with new and unfamiliar areas of law as the remit of UKRI Legal grows to meet the developing needs of the wider business.
Your responsibilities:
Professional and skilled lawyer with sound commercial experience and the ability to understand public sector policy drivers and work effectively within the statutory framework applicable to a non- departmental public body
Demonstrable technical aptitude
Excellen...