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Job Description
Starting salary:57996
Contract type:Permanent
Band:6
Location:Longmore House (with hybrid working)
Working Hours:Monday Friday 35 hours per week
Interviews: To be held in person at Longmore House on Thursday 19 June 2025
We are looking for a solicitor to join our growing Legal team reporting to our Head of Legal. This is an existing role within a team of three solicitors. If you have commercial contracts experience enjoy exploring a broad range of interesting legal issues have a good eye for detail and a commitment to public service wed love to hear from you.
For more information about the post and information about the team please access the full job description Solicitor for this post.
Benefits of joining us at Historic Environment Scotland
- Enrolment onto a Civil Service Pension scheme 28% employer contribution
- 25 days annual leave prorata (increasing to 30 days after 3 years) 11.5 public holidays
- Reimbursement for relevant professional subscriptions
- Support for further education and personal development
- Study leave for work related courses
- Flexible working hours (where appropriate)
- Free entry to all of our properties (with up to three guests)
- Free entry to English Heritage Manx and Cadw properties
Key Responsibilities of this role
The primary duty of the Solicitor is to provide legal advice to the organisation on a broad range of legal issues. Specific duties will include:
- Providing legal advice and support to all departments within the organisation in the performance of their functions and service delivery to assist with the promotion delivery and integration of the organisations key objectives. This may involve advice in areas of law as diverse as general commercial contracts intellectual property disputes data protection public law procurement personal injury and/or health & safety.
- Drafting and negotiating of a wide range of commercial contracts including sensitive and highvalue contracts and contracts with a focus on intellectual property issues.
- Coordinating the instruction of and working with the organisations external legal advisors for specialist advice.
- Participating in the promotion of the legal function and the legal process within the organisation and the implementation of appropriate processes controls and business improvements.
- Supporting colleagues across the organisation in planning and budgeting for future legal input
- Supporting the Head of Legal in delivering an efficient and effective legal function for the organisation.
- Assisting the Head of Legal in the continuous improvement initiatives of the Legal team; drafting key legal policies and procedures for the organisation; training staff across the organisation in key legal matters and/or providing key legal updates.
- Assisting the Head of Legal and other members of the team to enable the Legal team to deliver services efficiently and successfully.
Key requirements of the role:
In order for you to be successful in this post we will be looking for you to submit a cover letter which addresses how you can meet each of the essential and desirable criteria (in up to 1200 words) using examples of where you have demonstrated these criteria previously. Please ensure that you provide real life examples for each of the criteria to be considered for this post. You can use examples of how you have met this criteria from your work life home life education or volunteer experience. Please read our CV and Cover Letter Guidance first before completing.
Essential:
- Demonstrable postqualification experience either in an inhouse role or in private practice
- We recognise that no one candidate will have experience in all of these areas and are willing to consider candidates who have experience in one or more of the following areas:
- intellectual property law matters particularly copyright and trade marks;
- dispute resolution;
- public law including procurement law;
- data protection and freedom of information law; and
- personal injury law and/or health & safety.
- Excellent commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills and ability to advise colleagues on complex legal issues using accessible language
- Willingness to become involved in matters spanning a wide range of legal specialisms
- Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills and attention to detail
- Demonstrable commercial acumen
- Strong ability to build and maintain positive working relationships
- Networking and communication skills ability to communicate appropriately and clearly
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
- Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise workload in line with tight deadlines and work effectively under pressure
- Proficiency in the use of all typical office IT systems including Outlook Word Teams and document management systems such as SharePoint
Qualifications & Professional Memberships (essential):
- Qualification as a solicitor with current full and unrestricted practising certificate from the Law Society of Scotland
- Membership of the Law Society of Scotland
- LLB (or equivalent)
- Diploma in Legal Practice (or equivalent)
Find out more aboutdesirableskills and experience in our full job description Solicitor
We are dedicated to building a workforce which is reflective of diversity within Scotland. We warmly welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds regardless of age race gender or gender identity religious beliefs marital status sexual orientation disability or neurodiversity. In support of our Gaelic Language Plan we welcome applications from Gaelic speakers.
We want every candidate to have the best chance to succeed during the recruitment process. If you require your application in an alternative format please reach out to us via email ator call our Head Office at 0 and speak to a member of our People Team.
Please note that at this time we are unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship as part of the recruitment process therefore you must have current right to work in the UK to be considered for a post.
To submit your application online please read our How to Apply followed by Apply Now button to begin your application
Employment Type
Full-Time
