Paralegal

2 weeks ago

London, Greater London, United Kingdom UK Civil Service Full time

Job summary

If you offer experience of competition, consumer and/or economic regulatory law, then this is an exciting opportunity to play a key role within our Know-How team, highlighting the ambitious, high-profile and challenging work undertaken by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).

About the CMA

We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.

The Know How team works across the CMA�s entire portfolio, in competition and consumer law, enforcement, markets and merger control. We maintain and promote the CMA�s Know-How offering so that knowledge is effectively shared across the CMA, lessons are learnt from past cases, and examples of best practice are accessible to staff in a user-friendly manner.

You can read more about working at the CMA in our.

Job description

As a Paralegal, you will play a key role in the delivery of the Know-How team's priorities, undertaking a range of duties that seeks to share best practices with colleagues from across the CMA. From tasks in relation to the management of the CMA-wide Know-How inbox, to the arrangement of staff talks, the use of legal resources to answer queries and the development of information resources that supports colleagues in their role.

You will help to maintain Know-How intranet pages, ensuring that information is relevant, accessible, well presented and engaging. This will involve drafting elements of pages, organising Know-How documentation by theme, as well as ensuring that pages are legally up-to-date and relevant with the latest Know-How.

In addition to this, you will also provide key input into various forms of legal case updates, identifying and summarising relevant articles and helping to upload the content to the intranet, as well as processing and disseminating documents gathered from the CMA�s system, identifying key items that can be used for gathering Know-How.

You will collaborate with the team to procure resources such as online subscriptions, hard copy and online books, journals and maintaining the library where needed.

Person specification

It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application. For tips on how to make the most your application, please have a look at our .

Essential:

Evidence of either:Experience of working with Competition, Consumer, and/or related Economic Regulatory Law; OREquivalent Legal experience together with a willingness and interest to develop your understanding of the CMA�s legislative tools.�(lead criteria)An excellent record of team working, including the ability to work with others to organise and prioritise work to meet expected work standards and deadlines (lead criteria)Evidence of effective communication skills, including good drafting skills. Communicating with others to understand their views and needs to assist in achieving outcomes.Experience of conducting effective, thorough, and user-friendly research, showing an ability to make effective use of electronic and other sources of information.Good skills in keeping up to date in fast moving areas of law to aid you, the team, and others in their work, as well as keeping up to date with CMA cases.

Desirable:

Experience of handling knowledge management systems, sharing of resources and advising others on accessing information, to enable others to work more efficiently.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Seeing the Big PictureMaking Effective DecisionsWorking TogetherDelivering at PaceCommunicating and Influencing

Benefits

Alongside your salary of �29,550, Competition & Markets Authority contributes �7,978 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

You�ll also get:

25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King�s birthday. In addition, you�ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering.Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests.Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard.�A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work.�

You can read more about our benefits in our .

Our Values

We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for�Excellence.​ We treat everyone with Respect and are Collaborative and�Inclusive.​

Everything we do is underpinned by the Civil Service values:�Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity.

You can read more about life at the CMA in our .

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