Senior Legal Adviser

1 week ago

Swansea, United Kingdom INDEPENDENT MONITORING AUTHORITY Full time

Senior Legal Adviser

We are looking for a Senior Legal Adviser to join our current team of seven legal staff who form our Legal Directorate and report to our General Counsel.

The IMA is an independent arms-length body sponsored by the Ministry of Justice. This is an exciting time for the IMA who is responsible for monitoring whether the UK’s public authorities are providing the rights of EU and EEA EFTA nationals and their family members under the Withdrawal and EEA EFTA Separation Agreements.

The Senior Legal Adviser will be responsible for contributing to the provision of effective legal support at the IMA in the complex, challenging and wide-ranging area of EU citizens’ rights.  

You will oversee and provide advice to IMA operational colleagues to help inform the IMA’s monitoring and promoting work. The work will primarily involve advising on the Withdrawal Agreement, but may also engage the following areas of law:  

  • Public administrative law. 
  • Judicial review. 
  • International law. 
  • EU law. 
  • Immigration. 
  • Health. 
  • Education. 
  • Social security. 
  • Housing. 

Advice is provided in the context of litigation, inquiries, Legislation, Compliance & Intelligence.

You can read more about the IMA’s successes on our website.

As a Senior Legal Adviser, the post-holder will be expected to support the General Counsel in the leadership of the Directorate and the provision of legal services at the IMA.  

The Senior Legal Adviser will lead on the provision of legal advice on complex, novel and contentious legal issues. They will also provide leadership and direction to other members of the Directorate to help them develop the skills needed to provide excellent legal advice at the IMA.  

In addition to leading on legal advice on all aspects of the IMA’s work the Senior Legal Adviser will contribute to the design and delivery of the IMA’s internal training and guidance. You will also need to develop relationships with colleagues from across the IMA as well as a variety of other public authorities and stakeholders.  

The successful applicant will also be responsible for working with external legal service providers and counsel when required, under the direction and oversight of the General Counsel. 

You will have the full support of experienced and dedicated colleagues both from within the Legal Directorate and from colleagues across the IMA. 

We offer any tailored learning and development required for you to thrive in this role and you will have support and guidance to progress your legal career. 

Essential skills:  

You will be

  • a qualified barrister or solicitor entitled to practise in England and Wales.  

You will be able to demonstrate the following: 

  • Experience of advising on the main features of public and administrative law. 
  • Sound legal judgement including the effective management of legal risk. 
  • Sound powers of analysis and the ability to provide legal advice on complex and technical areas of law. 
  • Experience of working with and communicating complex legal issues to and influencing senior stakeholders.  
  • Ability to lead and develop high performing legal teams. 
  • Ability to contribute to the management of the effective provision of legal services.  

Benefits

We take development seriously and want to enable you to build a successful career with the IMA. It is crucial that our employees have the right skills to develop their careers and meet the challenges ahead, and you’ll benefit from regular performance and development reviews to ensure this development is ongoing.

You’ll be entitled to a large range of benefits such as:  

  • Learning and development tailored to your role 
  • Flexible working options, including flexi time 
  • 25 days annual leave on entry, increasing on a sliding scale to 30 days after 5 years’ service. This is in addition to 8 public holidays. This will be complimented by one privilege day entitlement. 
  • A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity 
  • Civil Service Pension – a competitive contributory pension scheme that you can enter as soon as you join where we will make a significant contribution (an average employer contribution of 27%) to the cost of your pension. Your contributions come out of your salary before any tax is taken 
  • Established reward and recognition scheme for staff 
  • Generous paid maternity and paternity leave which is notably more than the statutory minimum offered by many other employers 
  • Interest-free loans allowing you to spread the cost of an annual travel season ticket or a new bicycle 
  • Occupational sick pay, employee assistance services and health and wellbeing initiatives such as flu vaccines and health screening. 
  • We have a range of family-friendly policies, such as part-time working, job sharing, parental leave and career breaks and a range of leave options for parents. These depend on business needs, but our aim is to help you achieve a positive work-life balance. 

For further information please refer to the information pack attached. If you would like to know more about working at the IMA please watch our recruitment video.

How to apply

Click on the ‘Apply now’ below. You will be redirected to our recruitment portal where you will be required to complete a statement demonstrating the skills and experience that are suitable for the role.

Closing date for applications is 16th September 2024

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