Contracts Lawyer (Part Time)
| Posting date: | 31 December 2024 |
|---|---|
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 January 2025 |
| Location: | leicestershire, LE3 8RA |
| Company: | Leicestershire County Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 4401 |
Summary
Organisation: Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester LE3 8RA
Worker Category: Hybrid Worker
Salary: £38,700 - £52,155 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Working Hours: 30 Hours per week (4 Days)
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 26th January 2025
Interview Date(s): TBC
Leicestershire County Council’s in-house Legal Services has an exciting opportunity for a contracts lawyer to join its friendly, supportive and experienced Contracts, Procurement and Commercial Team based at County Hall, Glenfield on a permanent contract.
Eligible candidates should have qualified as solicitors, barristers, or legal executives and possess relevant experience in contract law and a good knowledge of procurement law.
Leicestershire County Council is a high-performing authority that offers: -
• An attractive benefits package. excellent annual leave and pension package,
• A positive work-life balance. We will support you to achieve a work-life balance and there are no fee earner time recording targets.
• A supportive and stable working environment. The health and wellbeing of our staff is important to us. All our managers are experienced legal practitioners, highly regarded both internally and externally.
About the Role
The primary purpose of the job is to assist in the provision of an efficient and effective legal advice service to all service departments and Committees together with any third party organisation or party with which the Council has an arrangement to provide legal services in relation to non-contentious commercial, company, partnership, contract and procurement matters.
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
- Currently qualified as a Solicitor or Barrister or Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives.
- Experience of working in a legal environment, either in the private or public sector.
- In non-standard contract, procurement, and commercial work, including Experience in drafting original documentation not wholly reliant upon precedents, Knowledge of purchasing and tendering regimes and Procurement Legislation, and Advice to officers of other departments up to management level.
- The ability to communicate effectively with members and officers; to assimilate information rapidly and present it orally or in writing clearly, unambiguously and concisely.
- Must be able to use IT-based systems.
- The ability to work under pressure with limited supervision. Addressing new legislative developments. Must be reliable and have the ability to work to deadlines.
- Must show a flexible approach and be able to work as part of a team. Possession of a valid driving licence and access to a vehicle. However, a reasonable adjustment will be considered for an applicant with a disability.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.
In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
Interested in Flexible Working?
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jillian Jeffers
Telephone: 0116 305 5950
Email: jillian.jeffers@leics.gov.uk
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the apply button. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the 'About You' section above. For more information, see the How to Apply section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post or you want to request an application pack in an alternative format, please contact our Employee Service Centre by telephoning 0300 3030222 (select option 2) or raising a ticket via our online portal: https://emss.freshdesk.com/support/home.
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