Paralegal in Stratford-upon-Avon

Paralegal

£35,000 - £40,000 per annum plus benefits

Reports to: Legal Service Delivery Lead Strategy and Suppliers

Directorate: Finance, Governance and Assurance

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week. We are open to various flexible working requests which we can discuss at interview.

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 18 October 2026 23:55 *

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: Competency based interview

Interview date: 1st stage w/c 2nd November, 2nd stage w/c 9th November. Both via Microsoft Teams

We're Transforming Legal at Cancer Research UK

At Cancer Research UK, our mission is simple but powerful: help people live longer, better lives free from the fear of cancer. Cancer Research UK's internal Legal function has launched a bold new strategy to help make that happen - and this is an exciting opportunity to be a part of it.

What will be some of the main responsibilities?

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the Legal team's triage and intake function, exercising judgement in assessing requests and determining appropriate escalation routes.
• Support the administration of the Legal team's technology system and matter management processes, including matter intake, triage, allocation tracking, and status updates - ensuring the team has accurate, real-time visibility of its caseload.
• Independently prepare, draft, review and negotiate standard-form and routine commercial agreements, and other legal documents, exercising independent judgement under appropriate supervision and escalating to the relevant lawyer where complexity, novelty, or risk requires it.
• Advise stakeholders on contractual compliance requirements and propose pragmatic solutions to facilitate contracting outcomes.
• Conduct and synthesise legal research across a range of topics to support the team's advice, distilling findings into clear, accessible summaries for lawyers and, where appropriate, internal clients, and providing practical and commercially focused recommendations.
• Develop strong GenAI legal capability and contribute to training and knowledge-sharing on GenAI across the Legal team and the wider organisation.
• Maintains excellent matter records and filing.
• Helps keep knowledge resources accessible and up to date - from written guidance to AI tool guidance and agent design
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve legal processes, templates, playbooks, technology implementation and workflows, working with the legal operations manager to contribute to knowledge management and operational improvement initiatives across the team.
• Help develop and pilot use cases for legal AI tools (e.g., contract review, knowledge management, obligation tracking, drafting assistance, summarisation, due diligence support) working closely with Legal Operations.
• Support the legal team with the process for trademark renewals.
• Work with Legal Operations to manage POs, invoicing and supplier payments as needed.

What are we looking for?

• Law degree or equivalent legal qualification (what would this be), together with relevant previous paralegal experience ideally in the commercial, public, corporate sector or in-house legal environment.
• Strong legal research skills, with the ability to distil complex information clearly and concisely for both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Experience of drafting routine legal documents and correspondence, with strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Able to independently prioritise and manage a complex and varied workload with competing priorities, meeting deadlines consistently and managing expectations proactively making use of AI tooling where possible.
• Clear and confident communicator - both written and verbal - with the ability to build positive

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