CITB Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Hours of Work: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Contract: Permanent
Location: Peterborough based with hybrid working (at least 3-4 days a month in the office)
** For full details of the role - please refer to the vacancy on our website by clicking apply **
About the Company
CITB aims to lead the construction sector by example to ensure fairness, inclusion and respect for all. We seek to develop an organisation which reflects Britain’s diverse population, and our main objective is to create a culture that enables our customers to strive towards an organisational community that is reflective of today’s society.
Responsibilities
* To provide high quality, strategic and commercial legal advice to the organisation across all core business activity, ensuring it operates within its statutory framework and business model.
* To work with a high degree of autonomy on complex legal matters, leading and managing your own portfolio of matters, as well as working collegiately with the other solicitors in the Legal Team to deliver an effective legal service to the organisation.
* Advising on the scope and extent of CITB’s statutory framework and powers.
* Interpret statutes, statutory instruments and other legal regulations to ensure organisational compliance.
* Proactively identify legal issues at the earliest opportunity and use high level competencies to develop and advise on strategies and/or innovative solutions to address them.
* Take a proactive approach to risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed, reported and, where appropriate, escalated.
* Assess and evaluate organisational threats/opportunities as a consequence of the legal environment and legislative changes.
* Use a range of persuasion and influencing skills to secure strategic outcomes that are legally compliant.
* Advise on and draft the legal arrangements for contracts with commercial and other service/product providers.
* Assess medium/long term fit of major contractual obligations with organisational strategic objectives.
* Facilitate and support risk management (particularly commercial and legal) by establishing standards for contractual arrangements for products and services with customers, suppliers and end users.
* Support the exploitation and protection of intellectual property rights relating to organisational products and services.
* Review the effectiveness of major current contracts with senior management and identify areas for development and improvement.
* To provide in-house legal advice in all areas of law relevant to the organisation including, without limitation, public/regulatory, contract, commercial, procurement, intellectual property, data protection, freedom of information property, employment, environmental.
* Where authorised by the Head of Legal, commissioning external legal advice.
* Legally represent the organisation as required, including at tribunals or courts.
* Provide advice to the ITA / Levy Compliance Team where required.
Qualifications
* Qualified solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive or other qualified lawyer with some public sector experience.
* Must be qualified to practice in England and Wales.
* Significant post qualification experience in one or more of the following areas of law (in order of priority): Public / Regulatory, Commercial / Contract or Public Sector Procurement, Charity, Data Protection/Freedom of Information, Intellectual Property, Property, Employment, Litigation
What we are looking for:
* Experience working in-house ideally in the public sector with additional private practice experience in a relevant area an advantage.
* Experience working with colleagues at all levels including at Board and Executive level.
* Effective use of analytical and innovative thinking and application, specifically (but not exclusively) in relation to the interpretation of law and complex issues/information.
* High level of literacy, presentation and verbal communication skills and ability to express yourself clearly and simply.
* Able to manage a varied and complex caseload and respond to competing priorities from a wide range of colleagues/third parties whilst ensuring effective use of time and resource.
* Negotiation, influencing and diplomacy skills in order to be able to achieve the overall right outcome for CITB.
Closing Date
Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the stated closing date. Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, therefore early applications are encouraged to avoid disappointment.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Legal and Strategy/Planning
* Industries
Non-profit Organizations, Construction, and Education
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