Senior Associate

**About us**

Stone King is an ambitious and friendly firm specialising in the Business & Social Enterprise, Charity, Education, Faith and Private Client sectors. Our collaborative culture and core values are intertwined with our ethos of doing the right thing by our clients, communities, and our people. Our passion for the sectors we work in and the purpose-driven work we do with our clients has resulted in SK being recognised as national leaders in our specialist fields across the country.

**The opportunity**

This role is an exciting opportunity to develop your career within a highly regarded national firm and work with a high calibre client base from the outset. You will be working closely with our nationally renowned Education team, which is ranked Tier 1 and receives outstanding recognition of its work from clients which is endorsed by individual rankings in Chambers and Legal 500.

**Reasons to apply**
- **Opportunity to take on a leadership role and guide a dedicated team to success.**:

- **Working with our nationally renowned specialists and sectors**, you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with our specialists across the firm.
- **To be part of an ambitious, collaborative and friendly national firm** where our culture and values are at the heart of everything we do. We believe our people are our greatest asset and strive to create the best place to work.
- **Excellent benefits for our people,** with a focus on wellbeing and development at the forefront.

**The Team**

Our cross-sector Information Law Team undertakes a wide variety of work, such as:

- Advising on UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA), the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004.
- Other individual rights under UK GDPR such as the right to erasure.
- Drafting information law related documentation including policies, privacy notices, and consent mechanisms.
- Data breach management and reporting.
- Advising on and drafting data sharing agreements and data processor agreements in a commercial context, whether on a project specific basis or in connection with mergers in the Education, Charity & Social Enterprise and Business sectors.
- Compliance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003 particularly in relation to direct marketing and fundraising.
- Handling complaints to the Information Commissioners Office (ICO), and liaising with the ICO in relation to such complaints.
- Advising on privacy by design and data security, including drafting and advising on Data Protection Impact Assessments.
- Cookie and website compliance.
- Conducting external and internal training, as well as delivering webinars.

**Key Responsibilities**

General duties include, but are not limited to:

- Effectively manage an individual caseload (with supervision where appropriate);
- Attend to clients of the Firm in the office or elsewhere if needed;
- Work in a collegiate and collaborative way within the immediate Information Law Team and wider Firm;
- Communicate promptly and effectively both internally to colleagues and externally to clients;
- Maintain your continuing professional development requirements (where relevant) and take an active interest in furthering your knowledge within the field of information law;
- An opportunity to delivering internal and external training (face to face and online);
- An opportunity to develop and delivering webinars.
- To attend and be involved in preparation for marketing and business development events and activities.

Ongoing learning is something that will continue in your career at Stone King; we aim to be leaders in our chosen fields, often providing workshops and seminars not only for our people but also for external clients on key areas of law.

**Requirements**:
**Essential**
- A qualified Solicitor with experience advising on the UK GDPR, the DPAand ideally also FOIA.
- An experienced Solicitor, with extensive experience of running own caseloads and a proven track-record of supervising and delegating to others effectively.
- A strong commitment to career development and further learning.
- Previous experience handling own caseload and ability to work independently and as part of the team.
- Someone who performs well under pressure and can manage a sometimes intensive workload.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to prioritise workload.
- Previous experience of supervision and development of others.
- Attention to detail.
- IT literate including Office 2010.

**Desirable**
- Experience working within the Education, Charity and Public Sectors funding arena would be advantageous.
- CIPPE or equivalent qualification is desirable.

**Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion**

As a Disability Confident employer, Stone King LLP is committed to offering an interview to any job applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role as defined by the job description and person specification. A full cop