Lawyer

Salary Range: £64,000 - £68,000 per annum

Location: Hybrid (WFH 3 days per week/Stratford, London 2 days per week)

Type of contract: Full-time (36 hours per week), Permanent

Closing Date: 11:59pm Sunday 22 February 2026

UK Anti-Doping (UKAD) is on a mission to protect clean sport and currently has an exciting opportunity available for you to join us. We’re looking to recruit a Lawyer joining the Legal and Regulatory Affairs Directorate to play an active role in maintaining an efficient Case Management function.

About Us

Our purpose: To ensure doping-free sport, promoting and protecting clean sport through education, testing and enforcement.

Our values:

• Integrity – We do what is right for clean sport, we are equitable and ethical, ensuring everyone is treated fairly and with respect.
• Collaboration – We work together and with others, sharing knowledge and building relationships to better tackle doping.
• Excellence – We strive to achieve high standards in the protection of clean sport, evolving with the times and finding solutions.
• Passion – We are dedicated to keeping sport clean, are proud of what we do and know it matters.

Job Purpose

Working closely with senior lawyers and stakeholders across sport, the role is responsible for managing the prosecution of Anti-Doping Rule Violation (ADRV) matters through to conclusion, ensuring timely progression and compliance with the relevant Anti-Doping Rules. The Lawyer will manage their own case load, advise on investigations and, where required, appear as an advocate on behalf of UKAD before the National Anti-Doping Panel and other tribunals. Both written and oral advocacy skills are essential, and the role is ideal for a lawyer who thrives on a mix of casework, written advocacy and oral advocacy. ADRV hearings take place for the team, on average, once a month, and typically last between one to two days each. The focus of the Lawyer’s role will therefore primarily be on the timely progression of cases and drafting high-quality written submissions and correspondence, while preparing for and delivering persuasive oral advocacy when required. The Lawyer will also be responsible for ensuring the highest quality legal advice is made available to the organisation in the most efficient way.

Key result areas

• Drafting

• Drafting inter-party correspondence
• Drafting independent review requests
• Drafting formal legal correspondence, including Notice and Charge Letters
• Drafting and reviewing witness statements and written submissions

• Interpreting rules and regulations and advising internal stakeholders on investigations into potential ADRVs
• Advising on evidence gathering and admissibility and reviewing evidence for disclosure purposes
• Conducting case to answer assessments on potential ADRV matters
• Liaising with Athletes, Athlete Support Personnel and their representatives in ADRV proceedings

• Drafting high-quality, persuasive written submissions and correspondence
• Appearing on behalf of UKAD as an advocate at ADRV hearings, when required

• Liaising with National Governing Bodies (NGBs), International Federations (IFs) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) regarding the bringing of charges for alleged ADRVs
• Liaising with external counsel instructed by UKAD
• Liaising with, and providing advice to, UKAD’s Results, Testing, Science and Medicine, Communications, and Education teams

• Where required, support the team’s wider provision of contractual and other non-contentious legal advice to UKAD, including in relation to data protection, freedom of information and GDPR matters

Person specification

Qualifications/experience/knowledge

• Barrister or Solicitor with a current practising certificate and either i) a minimum of three years’ post qualification experience (PQE) or ii) a minimum of three years’ experience working either in-house or in private practice within a sports regulatory team
• Substantial experience of appearing as an advocate before a range of tribunals
• Substantial experience of handling litigation matters
• Proven experience of working with anti-doping rules and regulations, or similar professional regulations
• Proven experience of providing legal advice to senior management
• Experience of communicating and presenting to a variety of levels of seniority and backgrounds, both internally and externally
• Experience of managing sensitive and confidential information in an appropriate manner
• Experience of drafting and reviewing commercial contracts (desirable)
• Demonstrable experience of having complied with the duty of disclosure
• Familiarity with Freedom of Information Act, Data Protection Act and GDPR matters (desirable)
• A passion for and knowledge of sport

Skills

• Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
• Confident and persuasive advocacy
• Ability to work within a team, whilst prioritising own workload and working under a tight schedule with competing deadlines
• Ability to pay close attention to detail
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with a network of key people internally and externally
• Self-aware and excellent influencing, negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to work proactively with external suppliers
• Ability to use Microsoft Office efficiently

How to apply

Our values are at the heart of what we do, so if they align with you and you’re up for the fight against doping in sport, please complete the online application. Deadline for Applications is 11:59pm Sunday 22 February 2026. Interviews will take place during the week commencing 9 March 2026. We are a disability confident employer and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term health conditions. If you meet the definition of ‘being a disabled person’ according to the Equality Act 2010, and meet the minimum criteria for the role, you may be eligible to apply for an interview via the Disability Confident Scheme and will have the opportunity let us know as part of your application. Please note that UK Anti-Doping are currently unable to provide Visa Sponsorship.