Head of Legal

4 weeks ago

Chippenham, United Kingdom Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited Full time

Head of Legal Job - South West/Midlands/Home Based - Housing Association
Your new organisation
Your new role
The Legal Services team forms part of the Governance and Compliance function and provides legal assistance and support to the organisation in ensuring its legal and regulatory duties and responsibilities are met. As Head of Legal, you will assume managementresponsibilities from Day 1 and you will need to lead the delivery of high-quality legal advice and support to the organisation and its subsidiaries and operations in line with regulatory and legal requirements and the organisations objectives. These includeoverseeing the delivery of a range of legal advice including property, housing management, disrepairs, general commercial, data protection and other ad hoc legal matters ensuring that any deadlines (whether statutory or internal) are met and such advice meetsthe business needs of the Group and managing all requests for advice coming into the legal services team through a central inbox, ensuring timely and accurate responses are provided. The first year in the role will be focussed on setting up and developingthe team, rather than specialist legal work. In time you will also recruit and add further heads to your team.
You will build, manage and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring delivery of a quality services that represents value for money, identifying any shortfalls in service delivery and ensuring they are dealt with adequately.
What you'll need to succeed
You will need to be a personable, confident Solicitor or Legal Executive with 6+ PQE. You must have experience of advising senior managers and staff on a breadth of legal issues and be fully committed to delivering an excellent customer experience, as wellas a desire to supervise/manage and lead and grow a team. Previous knowledge of housing regulations, legislation and current practice would be highly beneficial for this role.
You will ideally have experience of managing budgets and legal spend and you must be able to analyse information relating to complex situations and communicate findings clearly and precisely.
You must have the ability to build personal credibility by demonstrating the organisation's values, building trust with partners in the organisation and proactively contributing to organisational success.
What's in it for you
This presents as a rare opportunity in the market to really make your mark in this organisation and ultimately shape and develop the team.
**What you need to do now**
If this job isn't quite right for you but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career.

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