Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer

2 months ago


Saffron Walden, United Kingdom Venn Group Full time

Locum Head of Legal /Monitoring Officer

Venn Group is proud to be working in partnership with this Essex based Council to appoint a new Locum Head of Legal Services and Monitoring Officer.

Reporting to the Chief Executive, you will have great scope to influence your own Legal Service as well as playing a key role in the Council as Statutory Monitoring Officer and member of the Council’s Corporate Management Team.

The Council is ideally located, with easy access to London and Cambridge. Hybrid working of one day per week is ideal.

**The role**:
They are at the start of a journey to build a modern, agile Legal department and are looking to appoint a Head of Legal to lead the service, identifying and implementing service improvements. You will be responsible for leading and managing high quality, prompt and cost-effective service delivery. This will include managing the legal services budgets as well as reviewing and developing the service. This role will be until the end of September 2023 to fill in before the permanent Head of Legal and Monitoring Officer starts their new role.

As the Statutory Monitoring Officer, you will be the Council’s principal legal adviser and Lead Officer for the Council’s governance arrangements. You will be responsible for ensuring the Council, its members and Officers have access to high quality legal advice. You will be committed to ensuring an excellent reputation for the Council along with excellent customer relationships both within the Council and its customers.

This short term role will be demanding yet varied and rewarding.

**The person**:
This is an exciting opportunity for a Qualified Solicitor or Barrister with expert knowledge, understanding and experience of providing legal and corporate governance advice in Local Government. Knowledge of democratic processes and decision-making in local government is essential, as well as experience of working with elected members and dealing with standards issues. Experience of managing or supervising lawyers and of being responsible for service delivery is essential.

Whilst this role would ideally suit someone with previous experienced working as Monitoring Officer or Deputy Monitoring Officer, an experienced Principal Lawyer with some exposure to Monitoring Officer duties (as above) may also be considered.

020 7557 7667


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