Compliance Legal Counsel

Elevate Flexible Resourcing is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Compliance Legal Counsel to join our customer starting ASAP.

Contract length - 1 month

Location - London (1-2 days per week in the office)

Qualifications:

• Experienced Legal professional with significant post-qualification experience in corporate governance and compliance (either within private practice or in-house environments).
• Ideally understands charity compliance and/or has experience in the not-for-profit sector (this is desirable but not essential).
• Independently provided expert legal advice on compliance, governance, and regulatory requirements (e.g., business law, charity commission, financial regulations, procurement, health & safety, data protection, etc.).
• Strong prioritisation and organisation skills with the ability to work independently with minimal supervision, while managing multiple projects and delivering to deadlines with strong attention to detail.
• Has built credible and collaborative stakeholder relationships with experience influencing at all levels (including leadership) and clear verbal and written communication.
• Demonstrable problem solving, analytical, and business intelligence skills.
• IT literate - MS Office (including Word, Excel and Outlook).
• Able to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Overseeing and mapping Customer's legal compliance, regulatory requirements, and internal policies.
• Supporting the Head of Legal in developing Customer's legal compliance strategy.
• Developing and implementing the legal compliance framework and strategy.
• Drafting policies, updates, templates, and contracts.
• Providing training and awareness across the charity on legal requirements.
• Maintaining compliance registers and ensuring compliance with charity law.
• Horizon scanning and providing legal and regulatory updates.
• Advising on key implementation projects and risk management topics.
• Business partnering with teams outside of the UK to strengthen local compliance.
• Supporting Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) strategy initiatives.
• Providing legal and governance support to the Heads of Legal and General Counsel.
• Ensuring compliance with Charity Commission's serious incident reporting requirements.
• Overseeing litigation management and collaborating on effective procedures.
• Developing a legally compliant assurance framework with relevant teams.
• Overseeing and updating legal compliance, risk, litigation, and assurance mapping.
• Advising on and managing business law issues, including governance.
• Reporting on legal and compliance performance and escalating concerns.
• Collaborating with other departments to foster a culture of compliance.
• Assisting the Head of Legal in providing in-house legal advice.

About Elevate:

Elevate provides consulting, technology and services to law departments and law firms across the globe. Headquartered in Los Angeles, our 1,600+ strong team of legal professionals, lawyers, consultants, project managers, and engineers operate across the United States, Europe, UK, and Asia, Hong Kong and Australia.

ElevateFlex is the flexible resourcing capability within Elevate, we define and support a new flexible career within the legal industry. We match exceptional legal professionals to the evolving needs of our Customers through the curation of a world-class, global Community of Talent, and advanced, technology-enabled search.

Our Vision is a world where legal and business teams achieve incredible outcomes, together. Equitability and Inclusion are critical to ElevateFlex’s success. As The Law Company, changing the legal business landscape, we know a diverse, inclusive work culture is at the heart of attracting, retaining, and celebrating the industry’s most talented people. We empower our employees to bring their whole selves to work because we know that diversity of experience and perspective drive innovation and is simply good business.

As a strong proponent of diversity, equitability, and inclusion, ElevateFlex is committed to hiring diverse candidates from all backgrounds. We invite you to apply to become part of the ElevateFlex Team – help us change the legal business landscape and make a dent in the legal universe.