Solicitor in Chelmsford

About ARU:

ARU is a global university transforming lives through innovative, inclusive and entrepreneurial education and research. ARU holds a Gold award for the quality of its education, awarded through the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF).

ARU's research institutes and four faculties bridge scientific, technical and creative fields. We deliver impactful research which tackles pressing issues and makes a real difference to our communities. Our academic excellence has been recognised by the UK's Higher Education funding bodies, with 16 of our research areas assessed as world leading. We are the largest provider of Nursing, Midwifery, Health and Social Care students in the East of England, and we are also among the UK's leading universities for degree apprenticeship provision, working with hundreds of employers across the UK.

About the Role:

We've an exciting, permanent in-house opportunity, offering flexible working including remote working at our leading business facing University. Our legal requirements reflect our mixture of academic excellence and engagement with the commercial world, making us a lively forward-thinking place to work.

As a solicitor within the University, you'll provide legal advice independently as part of a small legal team to internal clients on a wide range of commercial law matters. Key responsibilities will include drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements, so you'll need to have excellent drafting and other technical legal skills. You'll also be responsible for the day-to-day management of your own legal files. You'll help to ensure that we're compliant with our legal and regulatory obligations so we can withstand scrutiny by relevant external bodies as well as legal challenges.

Part-time working arrangements may be considered for the successful candidate. Please confirm your availability and preferred working hours within your application.

With a degree plus demonstrable professional experience for the role or relevant professional / degree level qualification (chartered where appropriate), ideally, you'll have strong training and post qualification experience from a recognised private practice law firm or local authority, although all background experience will be considered. You'll be a current UK qualified solicitor with significant and substantial experience working in a legal role.

Benefits:

We have an agile working culture and offer an extensive range of benefits including generous holiday entitlement (including a shut down over the Christmas period in addition to your holiday entitlement), occupational pension schemes, training and development opportunities, travel to work scheme and a competitive relocation package. Visit our benefits page for full details.

Informal enquiries can be made to Michelle Lawlor-Perkins, Head of Legal at Michelle.lawlor-perkins@aru.ac.uk or on 01245 684213

Find out more about working with us and how we recruit.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare of our staff and students and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants should be aware that ARU will carry out online searches as part of the due diligence on short listed candidates.

We value diversity at ARU and welcome applications from all sections of the community.

We have a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK and will conduct Right to Work checks in line with UKVI's Right to Work policy and our own institutional policy. Furthermore, we must note:

• Applicants applying from outside the UK: At this time, ARU is unable to sponsor applicants applying from overseas for a Worker Route visa.
• Applicants already in the UK: ARU is unable to offer Worker Route visa sponsorship to applicants whose salary does not meet our minimum sponsorship threshold, which aligns with roles at Grade 6 and above.

Committed to being inclusive and open to discuss flexible working.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once we have received sufficient applications.

Guidance Notes:

Please download the Job Description Person Specification for key requirements. To apply, demonstrate how your skills and experience meet the criteria.