Legal Operations Director
1 month ago
Job summary
Much more than law
When it comes to nation-changing purpose, few organisations can match the Government Legal Department. Our work touches almost every aspect of UK life. It has a lasting, positive impact on millions of people. People in GLD enjoy a remarkable variety of work and the intellectual stimulation of working at the cutting edge, by not only interpreting the law, but also making it.
The Government Legal Department employs nearly 3000 people, including over 2000 legal professionals and has offices across the UK. As the largest provider of legal services across government, we work on high profile matters that are frequently scrutinised in Parliament and the media. Our teams advise most Government Departments on policy development, prepare and draft legislation, handle high profile public and private law litigation, support our new trade relationships and provide commercial transactional, litigation and property services � and more. Our newly created Chief Operating Officer Group is pivotal to our ambition to deliver legal excellence at greater value and efficiency. It signals the importance of our corporate and operational services and how fundamental they are to GLD being both an outstanding legal organisation and a brilliant place to work.
The role
We are now seeking an experienced legal operations professional to join us to lead the establishment of our newly created Legal Operations Directorate. This is a unique and exciting role offering an unrivalled opportunity to help shape and define our new GLD Legal Operations Directorate - one of your early responsibilities will be to complete the design work for what the structure will look like and how it will operate.
As Director of Legal Operations, you will lead four divisions: Legal Excellence; Bona Vacantia; Legal Delivery; and Legal Communities, with four deputy Directors and a likely total staffing of around 350/400 (following completion to further design work). Through your teams, you will ensure the Legal Operations Directorate meets the needs of GLD in terms of timely, proportionate and value for money legal support services, supporting delivery of the GLD�s strategy. This includes responsibility for identifying and securing the benefits of effective and efficient legal operational service, to legal delivery capability, including through adoption and use of relevant technology and autonomous systems. You will be instrumental to developing GLD�s strategic approach to harnessing the benefits of innovation.
Job description
This is a new role and early responsibilities will include completing the design, development and implementation of the new Legal Operations Directorate structure and functions.
Specific responsibilities will include:
identifying and then securing the benefits to legal delivery capability of effective and efficient legal operational services including through adoption and use of relevant technology and autonomous systems to increase productivity, improve legal knowledge sharing and increase the pace of response to requests for legal adviceenhancing GLD�s knowledge management functions
developing GLD�s strategic approach to harnessing the benefits of innovationdeveloping our Legal Communities Division to ensure we are maximising our impact in the external relations space with particular emphasis on the wider legal sector and its regulatory and representative bodies.
To note that you must be cleared to BPSS level started an SC application on starting and achieve SC within a year. Further information can be found in the candidate pack.�
Person specification
Essential�
Extensive experience of leading, developing or transforming a legal operations function in a legal services provider, in-house legal function or other legal service provision context. This may be from the private or public sector. Sufficient understanding and experience of legal enterprise software, tools, and applications to be able to develop our strategic approach to its adoption and use, including legal spend and matter/knowledge management tools.�The ability to manage workloads and resources across a multi-disciplinary team, utilising external resource appropriately, with a demonstrable track record of improving effectiveness and efficiency of enabling services and value for money.Proficiency in budget management and a good understanding of external assurance through auditors.The leadership skills to inspire and empower professional staff in a team with scale and complexity, supporting talent development, building a strong culture of continuous learning, flexibility and knowledge sharing.Exceptional communication and relationship building skills, capable of building deep collaborative partnerships with senior leaders, other government departments, public bodies and other organisations, as well as an ability to influence and engage peers across a large, complex organisation and to engender the trust and confidence of senior stakeholders, including Ministers.A commitment to diversity, to creating a truly inclusive working environment and to the core Civil Service values of integrity, honesty, objectivity and impartiality.Desirable
Experience as a practising lawyer or a legal qualification.Benefits
Alongside your salary of �98,000, Government Legal Department contributes �26,460 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Learning and development tailored to your roleAn environment with flexible working optionsA culture encouraging inclusion and diversityA with an average employer contribution of 27%-
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