Property Lawyer
| Posting date: | 27 September 2024 |
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| Salary: | £48,474 to £54,266 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 October 2024 |
| Location: | Coventry, CV1 2GN |
| Company: | Coventry City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | coventrycc/TP/46208/10212 |
Summary
Coventry City Council’s Legal and Procurement Services are part of the public sector providing in-house legal support and has custodial responsibility for public spending to Coventry City Council.
The Place Team in Coventry Legal Services is responsible for all planning, highways, and commercial property advice to the Council. The successful candidate will manage a varied and large caseload including all aspects of commercial property. In addition, the successful candidate will be required to attend decision making meetings including Cabinet Member meetings as required. We value diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive, is accepting of all and is free from discrimination and bias.
Our ValuesIn line with our One Coventry Values, we want to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applicants from minority ethnic, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equity and respect remains at the heart of everything we do.
Our Values are:
- Open and fair: We are fair, open, and transparent.
- Nurture and develop: We help and encourage everyone to be their best and do their best.
- Engage and empower: We talk and listen to others, working together as one.
- Create and innovate: We embrace new ways of working to continuously improve.
- Own and be accountable: We work together to deliver the best services for our residents.
- Value and respect: We put diversity and inclusion at the heart of all we do.
An opportunity has arisen for qualified and experienced Commercial Property Lawyer to join the Council’s Legal Services Team. This is an exciting time for you to join us and develop your career as we look to strengthen and grow our legal team as well as the successful candidate’s knowledge and experience within this area of law.
This motivated and highly professional inclusive team is looking for a qualified and experienced Lawyer (full time 37 hours per week) who is committed to excellence in their work and with a passion for commercial property work in particular, freehold related work. If successful, you will be part of a friendly and supportive team that deals with, the preparation of sale and purchase documentation, auction packs, drafting and negotiating leases and development agreements, unregistered and registered title investigations, Leasehold Reform Act applications, licences, tenant default and commercial debt advice.
The chosen candidate will also be required to support junior members of the team as required and assist with training trainee solicitors whist providing a range of advice on property legislation to various officers within the Council as well as Councillors and senior management. We will continue to embrace a mixture of both remote and office working going forward.
Who are we looking for?The role will suit a detailed, focused, enthusiastic lawyer who enjoys a busy and challenging caseload.
We value and respect the diversity of our team and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities. People from minority ethnic backgrounds are currently under-represented across our middle-management team, as a result we would like to encourage people from minority ethnic backgrounds to apply for this post. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability or who are neuro diverse.
Please contact the Place Team Manager (Rob Parkes) on 07415 642652 or the Deputy Team Leader (Julie Gay) on 024 7697 7393 if you wish to have an informal discussion about this exciting role.
If you need help or support to complete your application, please visit our accessibility page to see how we can assist you.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme - As part of our commitment to inclusion, we offer guaranteed interviews for specific groups of people. To qualify, you'll need to meet the minimum requirements for the role and identify with one of the below criteria:
- Members of the Armed Forces and veterans
- Are currently in care or have previously been in care
- If you consider yourself to be disabled or if you have a long-term health condition
For full details on the application process please read the attached document on our jobs page labelled 'Coventry City Council Application Process'. If there is any evidence of a candidate using AI to complete their application, then the application will be rejected unless the candidate can provide a justification which the Council considers to be reasonable.
About CoventryCoventry has a proud, innovative and creative spirit that throughout its history has seen communities come together to tackle problems and bring about real social change.
We are cutting-edge, challenging, youthful, vibrant and diverse.
At Coventry we are committed to excellence in everything we do. With around 5100 staff from a range of different backgrounds, our aim is to recruit and develop talented people who will focus on our customers, take responsibility, work together and find better ways of doing things.
To deliver the best services to our residents, we need the best people working for us to make a difference to our communities.
If you join us, we will provide a fantastic rewards and benefits package - to find out more please visit https://www.coventry.gov.uk/council-vacancies
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