Legal Advisor- International

**Salary**: £35,800-£46,600 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid

Contract: Full time, permanent

**We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.**

We are looking for a Legal Advisor to provide legal support and advice to the International and UK Education Groups, and on related legal operations and process improvements.

This is a great opportunity to join Legal & Business Affairs, an approachable team which empowers the business to make effective and ethical choices. Our enthusiasm for operational excellence helps us continually improve the way we support Cambridge.

We are a large yet close-knit team that supports each other, enjoys solving problems, and loves changing the way our colleagues think about Legal, Business Ethics and Compliance.

We are seeking a team members who share our passion and our values**:collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible**.

**Why would you join us?**

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success.

We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding. We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that is linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help give you the resources and training you will need to be bold and take ownership of what you do.

We are particularly focused on inclusion and improving diversity at all levels in the organisation, including for this role. We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches leads to innovation and creates an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued.

**What can we offer you?**

The role of Legal Advisor is a key part of our Legal & Business Affairs team. It will give you the opportunity to support our International Education and UK Education teams on new and exciting legal matters. Working with a variety of stakeholders, this role will be varied, both due to the changing nature of our business, particularly the shift from print to digital, and from products to services, and also the international reach of our work as part of a global organisation with offices in over 50 countries.

On top of this, working with Cambridge will also give you stability. We show our care for our people by supporting them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leave. In addition, you will be entitled to our health care benefits with coverage for dependents, group life insurance, and robust wellbeing programmes right from the first day of joining us.

We also care about the world around us. We're a founding catalyst member of Lawyers for Net Zero, and a member of LawWorks (a UK charity working to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal funding), as well as having our own Wellbeing and Green groups within the department and being key contributors to the organisation's sustainability strategy.

**What will you do in this role?**

Reporting into the Assistant General Counsel, your legal work will ensure stakeholders requirements are met in the relevant product groups and in the wider organisation and related shared services to ensure that legal and reputational risks are managed appropriately and in a timely manner.

You will support the process improvements which are essential to timely and effective delivery of legal and strategic services to the product groups.

**Key responsibilities will include**:

- Drafting or reviewing contracts and other legal documentation for contractual matters, including tender proposals
- Litigation support
- Carrying out legal research
- Dealing with queries from business colleagues
- Providing legal input and strategic support to colleagues in the Legal Operations team, including work on business improvements for the L&BA teams supporting International and UK Educa