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Plus London Weighting 3566 where appropriate and
Generous Civil Service defined benefit pension
About us:
The Office for Students (OfS) is the independent regulator of higher education in England we regulate higher education on behalf of all students. Our mission is to ensure that every student whatever their background has a fulfilling experience of higher education that enriches their lives and careers.
The Resources & Finance Directorate provides critical services to the OfS to enable the organisation to deliver its strategy. The Directorate ensures that the OfS complies with statutory and other public sector requirements identifies and manages risks and opportunities and coordinates efforts across the organisation to be efficient and effective.
About the role:
The aim of the Senior Legal Adviser role is to lead on provision of legal advice and support for a broad range of legal matters relevant to the functions of the OfS and its internal corporate activities. Key responsibilities include: supporting the Head of Legal Services and Deputy Head of Legal Services in tasks relating to the operation of the legal function within the OfS and leadership of specific initiatives. This role requires significant engagement with internal stakeholders to ensure that all employees are appropriately trained and external stakeholders to ensure the team is supported.
The key person attributes required to fulfil this role include: significant legal experience dealing with many legal practice areas; ability to analyse and advise on complex legal issues; sensitivity to politics understanding the needs of and willing to work collaboratively with external stakeholders; an ability to adopt a creative and innovative approach to legal issues; excellent verbal written communication and presentation skills; and an ability to influence and negotiate.
Responsibilities:
Delivering and working in a team:
Leads on providing advice and support on the following legal areas and topics:
Supporting the Head of Legal Services and other senior lawyers in operating the legal function within the OfS:
External and internal stakeholder management:
Knowledge development:
About you:
It is essential to have knowledge in the following key skills:
At an expert level:
Significant legal experience dealing with many relevant legal practice areas including at least four of the following:
At an advanced level:
Essential professional qualifications: Qualified Solicitor or Barrister (or similar qualification from a jurisdiction recognised by the Solicitors Regulation Authority)
Enablers:
The OfS currently uses a set of enablers to evaluate candidate strengths. This is your opportunity to expand on what you have achieved in your career by describing what youve done and how youve done it. It is here you should use detailed examples to explain how you meet all the requirements of the job description.
We are looking for how you made your own contribution to a scenario why you made that contribution and what was the outcome. Assertions without evidence will in contrast make it difficult to evaluate your skills and how you apply them. When completing your application please note that there is a word limit of 250 words per enabler.
The enablers for this role are:
Knowledge and Learning
Planning
Communications
Relationships
The OfS values diversity and the wealth of perspectives experience and ideas that it brings to our work and we strive to embed equality of opportunity in everything we do.
We recruit based on fair and open competition and welcome applications from candidates regardless of age disability race and ethnicity gender reassignment marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity religion or belief sex sexual orientation and socioeconomic background.
We love working flexibly because we know that it helps us all to do our best work. Weve created a set of principles to shape our approach to flexible and hybrid working which our teams then use as guidance on how they deliver their business goals. This would usually mean working from the office for two or three days in a typical week.
To attract the widest possible field of qualified applicants flexible working for example job share and part time working apply to these roles.
Closing date for applications: 12 Noon Monday 17 March 2025
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Full-Time