At a Glance
- Tasks: Provide expert advice on complex cases and support decision-making in the Client Protection department.
- Company: Join a diverse and inclusive team at the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
- Benefits: Flexible working, excellent pension scheme, and a supportive work environment.
- Other info: Opportunity to mentor junior staff and contribute to strategic projects.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by guiding crucial decisions that protect clients' interests.
- Qualifications: Solicitor or Barrister with strong regulatory experience and effective communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 45000 - 55000 £ per year.
Birmingham with part of the week working from home.
Senior Technical Adviser – Client Protection Department
The role is within the Client Protection department, responsible for the consistent, risk‑based delivery of outcomes while supporting decision making and guidance on claims case handling with the Compensation Fund team.
The Senior Technical Adviser will also contribute to strategic projects and policy development, develop organizational capability, and provide high quality technical advice and guidance on complex cases.
- About Our Department and Team
- Compensation Fund – deals with applications from people who have lost money due to the actions of someone we regulate.
- Interventions and Statutory Trust – deals with the closure of a law firm under our statutory powers and the investigation of the firm’s financial records to establish ownership of money held.
- Cost Recovery – recovers the costs of our regulatory action from those who are subject to it.
- Technical Team – provides advice, guidance and support to the other teams.
- What this Role Will Be Doing
As a Senior Technical Adviser, you will provide high quality technical advice and guidance to the Client Protection teams on high profile and complex cases that are often fast‑moving and evolving.
Your everyday duties will involve interpreting and applying statutory provisions and case law, making formal regulatory decisions, and providing decision‑making support to the department.
- Make a formal regulatory decision on urgent Compensation Fund applications, reviewing caseworker reports, assessing evidence, applying rules, drafting, and recording decisions within tight deadlines.
- Meet with caseworkers in the Statutory Trust team to discuss options for distributing money in probate matters where Executors cannot be located.
- Provide technical advice to the Interventions Team regarding entitlement to property deeds held by the SRA following long‑term interventions.
You will also support and mentor junior members of the technical team, developing and delivering training and guidance on complex or new topics across all Client Protection teams.
- What We’re Looking For
- Solicitor, Barrister and/or strong regulatory experience.
- Ability to quickly develop detailed technical knowledge of the SRA regulations and Client Protection’s work.
- Knowledge of and ability to apply public law principles of proportionality, reasonableness and rationality.
- Track record of delivering successful outcomes on complex issues.
- Ability to produce clear, authoritative written advice or guidance.
- Effective communication at senior levels.
- Line management capability.
- Resilient and able to adapt to rapid changes in priority.
- Pro‑active decision‑maker.
Benefits
We offer an inclusive, supportive, and friendly working environment.
The role is part of a flexible benefits package, including an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Equal Opportunities Statement
The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do.
We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way we attract, recruit and retain staff.
Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation.
We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio‑economic background.
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