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Team Leader /Lawyer - Major Projects

Posting date:	06 June 2024
Salary:	£35.65 per hour
Additional salary information:	per hour PAYE
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	05 July 2024
Location:	OXFORD, OX1 1BX
Company:	Triumph Consultants Ltd
Job type:	Temporary
Job reference:	OCC 0008 DFDC / 1

Summary

What's involved with this role:

Interim Team Leader /Lawyer - Major Projects

Reference no: OCC 0008 DFDC / 1

Pay Rate: £35.65 per hour PAYE

37 Monday to Friday, normal working hours

This opening assignment is for 4 months

City: OXFORD

An influential, confident and experienced lawyer specialising in one or more of the areas of major projects, property and contracts to join the well respected in house Legal Team, to lead on all legal aspects of major projects, property and contracts work in connection with the Council’s Services and where appropriate the Council’s companies.

You will need to be an expert in your field with the ability to handle complex major projects, property and / or contracts work and to lead and manage a team of lawyers specialising in major projects, property (commercial and residential), contracts and commercial, procurement and regeneration.

Key Responsibilities:

Contributing to the achievement of the Council’s corporate priorities and objectives by aligning the legal services provided by your team to identified priorities and planning and delivering coordinated and focussed legal services.
Assisting the Legal Services Manager and Head of Service in developing and providing strong and effective legal and corporate governance of the Council through working closely with other Service managers to help create and embed any necessary changes in culture, practice or procedure to meet the needs of the Council and its Companies.
In consultation with the Legal Services Manager and the Head of Service providing appropriate challenge with instructing Services across the Council to ensure that the Authority, its companies, officers and councillors are legally compliant and good governance prevails.
Working with colleagues across the Council to deliver effectively and efficiently joined up programmes, projects, policies and initiatives.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relationships with elected councillors, internal and external partners and stakeholders.
Providing legal advice to the Council, the Cabinet, committees, sub committees, panels and working groups; including the obtaining of external legal advice and opinion, where appropriate.
Acting as the principal legal adviser for the range of legal disciplines assigned to your team, advising Officers and Members at the highest level, offering effective legal solutions which protect the Council’s position and facilitate the achievement of corporate and service priorities.

NB: Please feel free to apply to us direct via jobs@tclrec.com by quoting the job reference and job title exactly.

To help speed up the process of uploading your CV to the client we would suggest that you send us your CV in Word format (or equivalent) if possible, rather than as a PDF

If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.

Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, we cannot, unfortunately, respond to all applications. If, therefore, you have not heard from us within 3 days please make a working assumption that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.


Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

Qualifications:

Qualified Solicitor or Barrister or Fellow – Chartered Institute of Legal Executives

Knowledge:

Good knowledge of relevant legislation

Experience:

Significant post qualification experience of dealing with legal and governance issue within a local government or equivalent environment
Experience of leading and delivering new ways of working and service development initiatives
Considerable experience of providing legal advice at local authority member and officer meetings or equivalent. Ability and willingness to attend Committee meetings and other evening meetings (including outside the area)
Demonstrates a successful track record of competently performing complex and high profile legal work including drafting complex documents
Successful track record of gaining and holding the confidence of clients, in particular senior officers and members

Skills & Abilities:

Well - developed communication and networking skills
The ability to handle competing priorities and a challenging workload
Proven ability to lead, manage and develop other lawyers across a range of legal disciplines/specialisms ensuring performance targets are met

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Job Ref: OCC 0008 DFDC / 1


Anticipated Length of Assignment: Unless otherwise stated (we do carry the occasional permanent vacancy) all of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent.

Please do try to resist contacting us with requests for progress updates.

We really do read every CV sent to us. All applications will be acknowledged by a human, not a robot, provided the job remains live and provided your CV meets the “Essential Requirements” listed.

Please note that we do our level best to take down ads as soon as roles have been filled. We are not in the business of harvesting CVs.

Important: We will interpret your application as being permission to submit your CV to this role (with the right to represent you) unless you advise us to the contrary.