Junior Lawyer

Red Snapper Recruitment are recruiting for a Legal Adviser (Level 2b) on behalf of a leading UK energy regulator. This is an exciting opportunity to join a high-performing in-house legal team at a time of unprecedented transformation across the energy sector. The organisation plays a critical role in protecting energy consumers, overseeing markets, and supporting the UK’s transition to net zero.

You will join the Office of the General Counsel, providing strategic, solutions-focused legal advice across a wide range of complex, high-profile and fast-moving policy and regulatory matters. This is meaningful work with real impact on consumers, markets and environmental outcomes.

Contract: Fixed Term Contract – 12 months

Locations: London, Glasgow or Cardiff (hybrid working – average one day per week in the office)

Salary:

• National: £34,123 – £45,831
• London: £36,824 – £48,561

Main duties and responsibilities:

• Own and lead legal workstreams, working collaboratively and delivering as part of a wider team.
• Provide strategic, high-quality, timely and solutions-focused legal advice on complex and novel issues within a regulatory context.
• Advise on public law, regulatory and policy matters across a range of specialist hubs, which may include retail pricing, enforcement, networks, systems, delivery of renewable schemes, or strategic infrastructure programmes.
• Support the effective management and mitigation of legal risk across the organisation.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with internal policy teams, technical specialists and corporate services.
• Manage key external stakeholder relationships, including government departments, regulators, industry participants and other bodies.
• Ensure value for money in the use of external legal counsel where required.
• Contribute to corporate, budgetary and wider management responsibilities as needed.

The role offers exposure to high-profile projects including consumer protection, price controls, competition matters, energy market reform, infrastructure development and net zero delivery.

Person Specification

Essential Qualifications:

• Qualified barrister or solicitor (England & Wales), or advocate/solicitor (Scotland); OR
• Overseas qualified lawyer with evidence of preparedness to sit the SQE or BTT and some UK post-qualification practice; OR
• Chartered Legal Executive (with a Qualifying Law Degree, GDL/CPE, or CILEx Level 6 foundation subjects as specified).

Experience & Skills:

• Demonstrable sound legal judgement and ability to analyse and advise on complex and novel legal issues (lead criteria).
• Experience (at any stage of career) in one or more of the following areas:

• Energy law
• Economic regulation
• Consumer protection
• Competition law
• Commercial or complex projects/procurement
• Public/administrative law or regulatory litigation (particularly within government, regulatory bodies or highly regulated sectors)

We welcome applications from candidates at different stages of their legal careers and particularly encourage applications from individuals from underrepresented groups.

Any Specialist Requirements:

Candidates will be required to undergo appropriate pre-employment screening and vetting in line with the requirements of the hiring organisation.

If this role is not for you but you do know somebody who would be interested, please refer them. We have a referral bonus scheme and will pay £75, in retail vouchers of your choice, for referrals who are not already known to us.

Due to the high volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within 7 working days, I am afraid your application has been unsuccessful.