Legal Adviser in London

Are you a solutions-focused legal professional looking to use your expertise to make a meaningful impact? Age UK is looking for a skilled Legal Adviser to help ensure that we continue delivering trusted, compliant and effective services for older people across the UK.

As a Legal Adviser at Age UK, you will provide advice, assistance and guidance to all parts of the Age UK Group that is timely, solutions focused and legally compliant. You will act as both an individual contributor and as part of a team - working closely with the Head of Legal and Governance and other members of the legal team to provide an effective and appropriate legal service to internal clients, identifying any areas for concern and potential improvement and making contributions to the development of the organisation.

This is your opportunity to contribute to the development of a major national charity, supporting its mission through expert, business-focused legal guidance.

You must be admitted and qualified to practice law in England and Wales, holding a current practising certificate to be eligible for this role.

We operate a hybrid-working model, a blend of home and office working. This role will include regular days working from our London office (minimum once per week). Your travel costs to the London office are not covered by the charity.

Must haves:

• Considerable demonstrable experience in a commercial or similar in-house/private practice role.
• Considerable demonstrable experience in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts.
• Significant post qualification experience.

Skills and knowledge:

• Admitted and qualified (with excellent academic credentials) to practice law in England and Wales, holding a current practicing certificate.
• Expertise in commercial law, including technology and IT law.
• Excellent writing skills in English.
• Excellent communication skills, able to explain complex legal concepts to non-lawyers.
• Ability to build effective relationships across departments.
• Considers commercial implications of decisions.
• Uses advanced problem-solving capabilities.

Personal attributes:

• Ability to multitask and work flexibly.
• Ability to work in a small team with minimal administrative assistance.
• Ability to pick up and get to grips with new areas of law.
• Ability to manage workflow in line with the organisations business needs whilst ensuring all stakeholders have an understanding of issues, deadlines, etc.
• Attention to detail.
• Supports the vision and values of Age UK.

Great to Have's:

• Expertise in charity and fundraising law.
• In-house or private practice exposure to charity, non-profit, public or heavily regulated sectors.

Additional Information:

Candidates are expected to provide a supporting statement that explains how they meet the competencies annotated with an 'A' in the job description, to assess suitability for the position. Age UK acknowledges and accepts that AI may be used to support the application; we do expect candidates to personalise experience, knowledge and skills and failure to do so, may result in your application being rejected.

Please submit a Word version of your CV as it will be anonymised by our recruitment system when you apply for a role. Our system is unable to anonymise supporting statements and heavily formatted CVs. Please could you remove any personal information including your name before you upload to support our inclusive recruitment process. All equalities monitoring information is also anonymised and not shared with the hiring panel. Your name and address will only be known to us if invited for interview.

Equal opportunities & Disability Confident Scheme:

Age UK is an Equal Opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates, regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital/civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity. Age UK is a Disability Confident Scheme employer. Due to high numbers of applications received, Age UK reserves the right to limit the overall number of interviews offered, and therefore, it may not always be practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled people that meet the minimum criteria for the job.

Reasonable adjustments:

Disabled job seekers can access reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process. All requests for reasonable adjustments are considered on a case-by-case basis, in collaboration with the disabled job seeker to best meet their needs, by contacting the Recruitment Team. Disability disclosures will be kept confidential and only shared on a need-to-know basis to support the implementation of adjustments. Disclosures will not be used to inform hiring decisions.

Age UK is committed to safeguarding adults at risk, and children, from abuse and neglect. We expect everyone who works with us to share this commitment.

Early application is encouraged as we will review applications throughout the advertising period and reserve the right to close the advert at any time.