Leicester City Council
Qualified Lawyer
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Reference: REQ7995
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Full Time / 37 hours per week / Permanent
We are seeking a qualified solicitor, barrister or chartered legal executive with experience in providing advice on complex commercial transactions, with particular expertise in supporting capital projects.
Join our dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking legal service which offers real job satisfaction. You’ll work within a friendly and supportive team environment where your professional development will be nurtured and appreciated. We are integral to delivery of the local authority services, supporting the delivery of services to some of the most vulnerable residents in our City, as well as supporting the Council’s capital projects and programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to be a key legal advisor on high profile projects that will shape the future of Leicester.
With a focus on work/life balance and personal wellbeing, we offer flexible working, including home working with dedicated legal support. This is your chance to make a difference and join an expanding team of friendly and experienced lawyers, with a wide and varied caseload.
This is a career graded post (LG Band 9 – LG Band 11). Appointment to a level will depend on the outcome of the selection process and experience of the successful candidate. Dependent on availability of work/vacancy at a higher level, progress will be by satisfactory performance, agreed at annual Appraisals and through on-going supervision.
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What You’ll Be Doing
- You’ll manage your own caseload of commercial, construction and contract law matters, acting as lead lawyer on major capital projects from inception through procurement, contract award, delivery and completion.
- You will advise on complex commercial arrangements, funding agreements, development projects, construction contracts and collaboration agreements.
- Working closely with project managers, procurement colleagues and senior officers, you’ll help deliver some of the Council’s most significant investment programmes.
What You’ll Need
- You’ll have significant experience in providing commercial and contract law advice.
- As a problem solver, who is commercially aware, you’ll provide solutions focused commercial law advice and support to the Council and other public bodies.
- Using strong communication skills, you’ll build and manage relationships with clients carrying through assigned tasks and matters to conclusion.
- Pragmatic in your advice, talented, and proactive, you’ll work effectively with client departments and the team.
What We Can Offer You
- As a team with an established reputation for staff development and in an environment with a varied workload and a chance to gain experience you will have opportunity for self-development.
- You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and flexible working.
- In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate.
- For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
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We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Seema Patel, Principal Solicitor via: Seema.Patel2@leicester.gov.uk
Region: Central
Location: Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices
Salary: GBP42,839 - GBP54,495 Per Year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement): GBP74,308
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
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