Senior Legal Adviser

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom British Council Full time

Senior Legal Adviser (Interim)

**Date**:26-Apr-2023

**Location**: London, UKM, GB

**Company**:British Council

We support peace and prosperity by building connections, understanding and trust between people in the UK and countries worldwide.
We work directly with individuals to help them gain the skills, confidence and connections to transform their lives and shape a better world in partnership with the UK. We support them to build networks and explore creative ideas, to learn English, to get a high-quality education and to gain internationally recognised qualifications.
Working with people in over 200 countries and territories, we are on the ground in more than 100 countries. In 2021-22 we reached 650 million people.

**Purpose of Role**:
To provide legal advice and guidance to colleagues within the British Council on a diverse range of legal matters, working in partnership with teams across the global network of British Council operations.

**Main Accountabilities**:
**Leadership and management**:

- May provide formal line management to Legal Advisor/Counsel or Team Assistant/Paralegal

**Relationship and Stakeholder Management**
- Key relationships include:

- Client functions (Cultural Engagement, English and Exams, Regions/countries and corporate functions)
- Senior colleagues in procurement, finance, human resources, internal audit and other support/corporate functions
- Contract Management - Head and Deputy Head of Contract Management
- External legal advisers - UK and Overseas
- Senior management in client functions
- Support a complex operating environment in an organisation that is both a non-departmental public body and a charity as well as encompassing a large international commercial operation in English and Exams.
- Support and advise on a diverse range of legal matters, working with colleagues whose first language may not be English and who may have no/limited formal legal knowledge, experience and understanding.
- Work across more than 100 countries with significant regional differences and priorities.
- Support an international organisation undergoing significant digital transformation and investing in technology innovation.

**Professional Services expertise**
- Provide legal advice, oversight and review for client functions, including review of major bids/ contracts, partnerships and disputes and ad hoc legal advice to ensure legal risks and opportunities are understood to inform the best possible decisions.
- Review all material legal advice obtained by client functions overseas to ensure alignment with British Council values, policies and corporate requirements.
- Lead on the provision of operational legal support to client functions and the legal function overall, for example in the drafting and negotiation of a wide range of contracts, MoUs/Treaties with host country governments, international digital innovation initiatives as well as data, IP, procurement and ecommerce matters and for ancillary legal documentation such as loans, bonds and guarantees, policies, powers of attorney, etc.
- Lead on legal issues arising from setting up new subsidiaries and changes to existing group companies to ensure risks are identified and mitigating actions identified to the business.
- Contribute to the development of the Global Model Contracts Portal working closely with the Contract Management Team, Legal intranet pages and other tools and communications to share best legal practice.
- Where required, deputise for the Head of Legal in their absence.

**Consultancy, analysis and problem solving**
- As required, advise on the management of legal risk in the organisation, including design and delivery of key change programmes, advising on legal implications of new business models and commercial activities.
- Lead on initiatives to develop legal knowledge and understanding to enhance awareness and capability in legal matters throughout the network.

**Role specific knowledge and experience**

Sufficient knowledge/experience of:

- commercial transactions
- corporate governance
- legal status (UK and overseas)
- contracts and contract law
- conflict of laws/cross border issues
- intellectual property/digital/privacy plus B2C operations
- international legal issues
- public procurement law and competitive tender processes
- partnerships and joint ventures

Sufficient post-qualification experience.

**Further Information**

**Pay Band **- 9 / SMPL

**Contract Type **- Fix Term Contract ( 4 Months ) with a possibility of being
**permanent**

Role Benefits
- Between £56,021 - £81,600 yearly gross plus £3,300 London Market Allowance yearly gross
- 32 days annual leave, in addition to public holidays
- 6 days volunteering leave
- Career average defined benefit pension scheme

And an unrivalled Opportunity for you to get to use all the experience you’ve built up working in leading global organisations to support us in building trust across the world

**Location -**
**United Kingdom**

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