Legal Adviser

3 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom OFGEM Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 273848**Salary**:

- £43,650 - £59,999- National £43,650 - £55,999 London £46,250 - £59,999**Job grade**:

- Grade 7- Level 2b**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- OFGEM - General Counsel**Type of role**:

- Legal Services**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 3Contents

Location

About the job

**Benefits**:
Things you need to know

Location
- Cardiff, Glasgow, LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- Ofgem’s legal function sits in the Office of the General Counsel (OGC). The OGC is responsible for the provision of all legal advice and management of all legal risk required by OFGEM and its governing body the Gas and Electricity Markets Authority and for managing the organisation’s exposure to legal risk.
- The energy sector is going through an unprecedented transformation to a net zero and data-enabled future. Furthermore, the record increase and volatility in global gas prices in recent months, has put the energy market under severe strain. You will be joining Ofgem OGC with a number of significant policy and legal matters all under development at a time of increasing change in the energy sector.
- The OGC supports Ofgem’s activities through hubs focused on the following areas:

- Consumer & Competition Legal
- Enforcement and Emerging Issues Legal
- Delivery and Schemes Legal
- Networks RIIO Legal
- Networks Commercial and Nuclear RAB Legal
- Systems Legal**Job description**:
You will initially be posted to work in one hub, where you will support the Deputy Legal Director responsible for that hub in ensuring the continued delivery of a first class legal function, but you can expect to work in a number of hubs over time which means that you will be working in a diverse culture with like minded people. Some of the projects cut across more than one hub.

The work is meaningful with a real impact on the lives of energy consumers and energy and environmental policy. You will find the work interesting, intellectually challenging and varied, you will be involved in advising on a wide range of public law issues in a regulatory context. We will tailor the role according to your skills and experiences. You will enjoy the role if you are a lawyer who is pragmatic and solutions driven, can manage competing demands and deliver at pace to provide advice to policy colleagues at all levels.

**Key Responsibilities**
- You will own and lead on workstreams in your own right, working collaboratively, collegiately and delivering more widely as part of a team.
- Ensure the delivery of strategic, solutions-focused, high-quality, timely and succinct legal advice, including identifying innovative solutions to support the delivery of the work of their hub, the OGC and wider Ofgem divisions where necessary.
- Working collaboratively with your team have responsibility for managing key stakeholder relationships, including with industry, Government and the CMA.
- Ensure that the OGC achieves value-for-money outcomes in terms of any external spend - for example, in instructing Counsel.
- You will have the opportunity to work with the lawyers across the OGC to articulate and support the management and mitigation of legal risk.
- You may on occasion have corporate, budget and other management functions from time to time.

**Key Outputs and Deliverables**
- Provision of Legal Advice

**Key Stakeholder Relationships**

**Internal**
- Office of the General Counsel
- Policy teams
- Corporate Services

**External**
- Licensees (Energy Companies)
- Government (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
- Other Regulators (CMA)

**We are hosting a virtual recruitment event on Thursday 16th of March from 5pm - 6pm to discuss this vacancy in more detail. This event will be a great opportunity for you to learn more about the roles available and you will also have the opportunity to hear all about what it's like to work for Ofgem's Office of the General Counsel and ask questions of the panel.**

**#LI-AD1**

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:

- Qualified to practice as a barrister or solicitor, in England and Wales or an advocate or solicitor in Scotland. You must have completed a training contract/pupillage/qualifying employment or have been exempted from this by the relevant Law Society, the Bar Council or CILEx.-
- Contract Law
- Criminal Law
- Equity and Trusts Law
- European Union Law
- Land Law
- Public Law
- Law of Tort

**Experience**

(**LEAD**) We are interested in hearing from people at different stages in their career, you may be recently qualified or have experience in any one of the following:

- energy law;
- economic regulation;
- consumer protection;
- competition law;
- commercial or complex project/procurement; or
- public law or administrative law or regulatory litigation in a context similar to that in which Ofgem operates, for example advising a government departm

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