Junior Legal Counsel
Description
We are looking for a talented and motivated Junior Legal Counsel to join our Legal Services team. This is an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified lawyer, or a lawyer in the earlier stages of their legal career, who is looking to develop broad in-house experience within a charitable organisation.
As Junior Legal Counsel, you will support the Legal Services team in providing advice, guidance and project support across the HTB Group. You'll work closely with the Group General Counsel, legal colleagues, ministry leaders and operational teams, gaining exposure to a wide range of legal matters while helping to enable the organisation's mission and strategic priorities.
Applications of this position will close on Sunday 30th August. The salary range for this position is between £40,000 - £55,000 depending on experience.
Some of the key responsibilities include:
- Conducting legal research on a variety of issues affecting the organisation.
- Drafting legal advice, guidance notes, briefings, policies and supporting documents.
- Reviewing and advising on contracts and commercial agreements.
- Supporting compliance and policy initiatives across the organisation.
- Assisting the Group General Counsel and Director of Legal Services on legal projects and workstreams.
- Managing routine and lower-risk legal matters with appropriate supervision.
- Providing practical legal guidance to internal stakeholders.
- Helping to develop legal knowledge and best practice across teams.
- Building effective relationships with external legal advisers where required.
- Maintaining and developing your legal knowledge and professional competencies.
Requirements
The following skills and experience form the minimum requirements for the role:
- Fully qualified lawyer authorised to practice in England & Wales.
- Excellent understanding and experience of commercial issues, with ability to provide pragmatic solutions, with working knowledge of applying data protection (primarily GDPR) legislation in a contracts and events context.
- Excellent contract drafting and reviews, attention to detail and communication skills.
- Flexibility to provide legal advice in new contexts, interest in learning, and using transferable legal skills.
- Strong working knowledge of data protection regime in UK.
- Commercial outlook.
- Ability to train and advise staff from liaising departments on legal aspects of their projects, where possible seeking improvement in team’s approach to legal work.
- Gravitas to work effectively with staff at all levels and the ability to develop strong working relationships with departmental teams.
- Team player with initiative, ability to prioritise, and problem-solving attitude in a complex and dynamic context.
Benefits
We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, including:
- 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays) , which increases with length of service
- Pension scheme contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme for confidential support
- Medicash plan
- Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
- Access to training and development resources to help you grow in your role
Skills
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Basics
First name, Last name, Email, Phone, Address, Resume, Cover letter, Please outline how you heard about us, and any involvement you have with HTB Group?, In a few lines describe your faith journey?, Which church are you an active member of?, Have you ever attended an Alpha course?, As per the requirements of the Charity Commission guidelines, please outline any business, personal or other relationship that you have with any member of the HTB Parochial Church Council (PCC) or any director or one of HTB's connected charities (Alpha International, SPTC, WWT or CFEO), Do you have the right to work in the United Kingdom?, If you have previously applied for role/s within the HTB group, please provide details, or if this is your first application please state 'none', I confirm that the above information is accurate to the best of my knowledge
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- While this role is based out of our London office we currently expect all staff to be in the office on a Tuesday and Thursday as a minimum. There may be additional days you are required to be in the office from time to time or ongoing. Please confirm that this is possible for you. If you prefer a fully remote role please ask to be considered for our Talent Pool as we do have some fully remote roles from time to time.