Head of Legal - Property and Commercial
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £58,986.9 i £78,649.2 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 18 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Mansfield, Midlands, NG18 4RG |
| Cwmni: | The Coal Authority |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 59044075 |
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About You
A unique opportunity to lead and shape our legal function to support our mission of making a better future for people and the environment in mining areas
Lead with purpose: Help protect people and the environment in mining areas. Work that delivers real‑world outcomes, every day.
Own the remit: Shape property, commercial and procurement legal advice for a national programme, with opportunities to expand into wider areas including subsidence, data protection and litigation.
Small team, big impact: Join a friendly, expert in‑house team who coach, collaborate and get things done.
What you’ll bring
- Professional qualification: Solicitor or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (including conveyancing practice to undertake regulated activities under the Legal Services Act 2007).
- Property & commercial expertise: Strong experience across procurement legislation and property/regulatory matters.
- Leadership: A track record of developing people and services, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Delivery mindset: Calm under pressure, organised, detail‑focused and confident in managing multiple deadlines.
- Relationship skills: Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
Public sector in‑house experience is helpful, but not essential.
How we work (and support you)
- Hybrid by design: Balance between focused work and collaboration; office attendance based on business need.
- Coaching & mentoring: Real opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
- Inclusive culture: We value different thinking styles and lived experiences.
- Impact you can see: You’ll contribute to work that supports mining communities and environments across the UK.
About The Role
You will lead our Property & Commercial legal function at the Mining Remediation Authority, providing high‑quality, pragmatic legal advice across the organisation. You’ll support decision‑making on property matters, commercial contracts and procurement, and you’ll play a key role in our priority programmes including the treatment of saline mine water from inland coalfields.
You’ll work closely with our Head of Legal & Records, supporting the Board and Executive Leadership Team to deliver clear, practical counsel on strategic decisions and emerging risks.
What you’ll do
- Lead the team: Set direction, develop capability, coach strengths, and ensure a resilient and efficient service from our in-house and external specialists.
- Be the expert: Draft and negotiate transfers, contracts and complex agreements; provide timely, practical advice under pressure and against competing deadlines.
- Safeguard compliance: Interpret new legislation, advise on impacts and ensure the Authority remains an intelligent client when using external legal providers.
- Influence stakeholders: Engage confidently with DESNZ, DEFRA and other government bodies; build trusted internal and external relationships.
- Support wider work: Provide resilience across the wider legal function, including litigation and data protection, and contribute to research and development projects.
Ready to make a difference?
If you're an experienced lawyer looking to lead a high‑impact, friendly team — and you’re excited by varied, meaningful work — we’d love to hear from you.
We are working in exclusive partnership with Sellick Partnership on this role, who are supporting us throughout the recruitment process. All applications should be submitted via their website.
Apply directly through the live advert here:
https://shorturl.at/qhw7b
For a confidential conversation about the role or working with the Mining Remediation Authority, please contact Sara Robinson at Sellick Partnership.
Closing date: 23:59 on Thursday 19 February 2026.
If you have any questions or require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, Sellick Partnership will be happy to support you.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000. We are happy to support you through the process.
A unique opportunity to lead and shape our legal function to support our mission of making a better future for people and the environment in mining areas
Lead with purpose: Help protect people and the environment in mining areas. Work that delivers real‑world outcomes, every day.
Own the remit: Shape property, commercial and procurement legal advice for a national programme, with opportunities to expand into wider areas including subsidence, data protection and litigation.
Small team, big impact: Join a friendly, expert in‑house team who coach, collaborate and get things done.
What you’ll bring
- Professional qualification: Solicitor or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (including conveyancing practice to undertake regulated activities under the Legal Services Act 2007).
- Property & commercial expertise: Strong experience across procurement legislation and property/regulatory matters.
- Leadership: A track record of developing people and services, with the ability to explain complex topics clearly.
- Delivery mindset: Calm under pressure, organised, detail‑focused and confident in managing multiple deadlines.
- Relationship skills: Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
Public sector in‑house experience is helpful, but not essential.
How we work (and support you)
- Hybrid by design: Balance between focused work and collaboration; office attendance based on business need.
- Coaching & mentoring: Real opportunities to grow personally and professionally.
- Inclusive culture: We value different thinking styles and lived experiences.
- Impact you can see: You’ll contribute to work that supports mining communities and environments across the UK.
About The Role
You will lead our Property & Commercial legal function at the Mining Remediation Authority, providing high‑quality, pragmatic legal advice across the organisation. You’ll support decision‑making on property matters, commercial contracts and procurement, and you’ll play a key role in our priority programmes including the treatment of saline mine water from inland coalfields.
You’ll work closely with our Head of Legal & Records, supporting the Board and Executive Leadership Team to deliver clear, practical counsel on strategic decisions and emerging risks.
What you’ll do
- Lead the team: Set direction, develop capability, coach strengths, and ensure a resilient and efficient service from our in-house and external specialists.
- Be the expert: Draft and negotiate transfers, contracts and complex agreements; provide timely, practical advice under pressure and against competing deadlines.
- Safeguard compliance: Interpret new legislation, advise on impacts and ensure the Authority remains an intelligent client when using external legal providers.
- Influence stakeholders: Engage confidently with DESNZ, DEFRA and other government bodies; build trusted internal and external relationships.
- Support wider work: Provide resilience across the wider legal function, including litigation and data protection, and contribute to research and development projects.
Ready to make a difference?
If you're an experienced lawyer looking to lead a high‑impact, friendly team — and you’re excited by varied, meaningful work — we’d love to hear from you.
We are working in exclusive partnership with Sellick Partnership on this role, who are supporting us throughout the recruitment process. All applications should be submitted via their website.
Apply directly through the live advert here:
https://shorturl.at/qhw7b
For a confidential conversation about the role or working with the Mining Remediation Authority, please contact Sara Robinson at Sellick Partnership.
Closing date: 23:59 on Thursday 19 February 2026.
If you have any questions or require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, Sellick Partnership will be happy to support you.
To find out more about the role, take a look at the job description.
Role location: Hybrid working (on average 2 days working out of our Mansfield office)
Security:
Successful candidates must pass basic security checks and will be subject to UK Immigration requirements.
About Mining Remediation Authority
Our benefits:
- A cutting-edge pension scheme with an impressive employer contribution rate of approximately 28.97%.
- Experience our values-based recognition scheme that celebrates your contributions.
- Flexibility in working patterns, whether it's full-time, part-time, or compressed hours.
- Embrace flexible working arrangements tailored to your needs.
- Enjoy a generous holiday allowance of 27.5 days annually, plus the flexibility to add 6 extra days to that, alongside 8 public holidays.
- Benefit from a comprehensive parental leave policy with 26 weeks of full pay (subject to eligibility).
- Get support to further your professional qualifications and payment for one annual professional subscription.
- Access a free, confidential Employee Assistance Programme to support your well-being.
- Unlock exclusive employee discounts
- Ensure your well-being with an annual health check and receive £15 monthly towards well-being activities.
- Enjoy the convenience of on-site free parking, along with complimentary tea, coffee, and soft drinks at our Mansfield office.
Working with us:
We offer different ways to work flexibly, and the following types of flexibility are usually possible: job share, flexible hours, working from home for part of the week and compressed hours. Please feel free to talk about what flexibility means to you at your interview.
With a genuine commitment to flexible working, we believe that work life balance is incredibly important.
Who we are:
Here at the Mining Remediation Authority, we really are a great team to work with. We’re united in our passion and commitment to make a better future for people and the environment in mining areas.
We carry out a wide variety of essential services from responding to coal mining hazards, to keeping everyone and everything safe from mine water pollution.
We are excited about what our future holds. Our work is helping to develop a new sustainable source of renewable energy for the UK. By harnessing the energy from mine water heat, we hope to play a key role towards helping the UK to meet net-zero emissions by 2050.
We truly are a supportive organisation where we all live and breathe our values. We are inclusive, trusted and progressive in everything that we do.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion:
We’re proud to be an inclusive employer and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and identities, and we actively promote equality of opportunity throughout our recruitment process.
As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we offer a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the minimum selection criteria and identify as disabled or from a minority ethnic background, this aligns with our values.
We recruit based on your skills, experience and potential not your ethnicity, background, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic. To help ensure fairness, we anonymise applications by asking you to remove personally identifiable information before they are reviewed by hiring managers. This helps us reduce unconscious bias and focus solely on what matters, your ability to succeed in the role.
If you’re successful in joining us, it’s because we believe in your ability to make a meaningful contribution. By continuing to improve the diversity of our organisation, we strengthen our collective knowledge, creativity, innovation and living our values of being trusted, inclusive, and progressive every day.
If you require reasonable adjustments or an alternative format to apply, please contact us at Recruitment@MiningRemediation.gov.uk or call us on 01623 637000. We are happy to support you through the process.
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