Legal Adviser

Do you want to work across the full spectrum of the charity sector? Do you want an interesting and varied workload? Do you want to work in a tight-knit high-quality legal team? The Charity Commission is seeking a new lawyer to join Legal and Accountancy Services for a fixed term contract of 2 years. This is an exciting opportunity to provide high impact legal advice on the Commission’s regulation of charities. There are five specialist teams within Legal Services – Legal Compliance, Permissions and Information Law, Charitable Status, Legal Policy and Litigation, which operate as a tight peer group, guiding and supporting each other. This vacancy is in our Legal Compliance team but you may be required to move to another Legal Services team. Legal Services enables charities to deliver their purposes by advising on whether entities are charities, use of the Commission’s extensive powers, compliance casework (including statutory inquiries), the permissions casework and the development of guidance. The team also advises the Commission on its use of data in relation in carrying out its functions and on responses to FOIA requests, SARs and ICO related casework and appeals. Legal Policy helps to shape the development of the legal and regulatory framework for charities, and ensure the legal integrity of Commission policy proposals, guidance and operational projects. Additionally, Litigation undertakes advocacy on behalf of the Commission in a range of Courts and Tribunals. You will support the Commission’s strategic aims and operational goals by providing high quality professional legal advice across the Commission and developing the casework teams.

Job Description

The main things the successful candidate will be doing are:

• Providing accurate, proportionate, and pragmatic legal advice in a timely manner, using judgment innovation and versatility to advise.
• Assessing risk and advising on mitigation in highly sensitive and high-profile matters and policy areas, taking into account a rapidly changing environment.
• Ensuring that the Commission’s regulatory approach and operational projects are informed by and developed in accordance with the legal framework.
• Supporting the upskilling of colleagues across the Commission through the development of operational guidance and training delivery.
• Maintaining important relationships with clients and stakeholders in other directorates as well as engaging individually to consult and negotiate to achieve mutually acceptable solutions.

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