Legal Support Officer

East Midlands Combined County Authority; Chesterfield; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability Confident employer scheme

Job summary

The East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is seeking a Legal Support Officer to join our Legal & Governance team in Chesterfield. This hybrid, full-time role provides essential administrative and digital support to the Legal Practice Manager and General Counsel, helping ensure efficient legal services and robust processes.

You'll act as a super user for our case management systems, coordinate the legal inbox and instructions, manage contracts and signing processes, support recruitment

Qualifications

• Organised, proactive and digitally confident with ability to streamline admin processes.
• Experience supporting legal services or governance functions is advantageous.
• Strong record-keeping and data management skills.

Responsibilities

• Support the effective day-to-day delivery of Legal Services.
• Manage and improve administrative systems, processes and workflows.
• Act as a super user for the Legal Case Management system, supporting users, access, permissions, troubleshooting and system improvements.
• Coordinate the Legal Inbox and instructions process, including triage, allocation and workflow monitoring.
• Manage contracts, agreements, signing and sealing processes.
• Support recruitment, induction, training, starters and leavers.
• Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets and tracking systems to support performance and legal spend monitoring.
• Support financial and administrative processes across the service.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes and data quality.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and ensure issues and risks are appropriately escalated.

Skills

Organised

Proactive

Digitally confident

Super user

Tools

Legal Case Management system

Job description

Grade: E14 | Directorate: Legal & Governance

Reports to: Legal Practice Manager

About the role

The East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is building a new organisation with an ambitious vision for the East Midlands — making our region more prosperous, sustainable and fairer.

We are looking for an organised, proactive and digitally confident Legal Support Officer to join our Legal & Governance team.

This is a varied role providing essential administrative, operational and digital support to the Legal Practice Manager and General Counsel. You'll help ensure our Legal Services function operates efficiently, with effective systems, processes and workflows in place.

You'll also play a key role as a super user for Legal Services systems, helping colleagues use technology effectively and identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

What you'll do

You’ll:

• Support the effective day-to-day delivery of Legal Services.
• Manage and improve administrative systems, processes and workflows.
• Act as a super user for the Legal Case Management system, supporting users, access, permissions, troubleshooting and system improvements.
• Coordinate the Legal Inbox and instructions process, including triage, allocation and workflow monitoring.
• Manage contracts, agreements, signing and sealing processes.
• Support recruitment, induction, training, starters and leavers.
• Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets and tracking systems to support performance and legal spend monitoring.
• Support financial and administrative processes across the service.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes and data quality.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and ensure issues and risks are appropriately escalated.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

Legal Support Officer

Company: East Midlands Combined County Authority Salary: £35,570 to £40,444 a year Hours: Full-time Location: Chesterfield, S40 1SA Working pattern: Hybrid - 3 days remote Job type: Permanent Posting date: 12 Oct 2026 Closing date: 26 Oct 2026

Summary

Legal Support Officer

Salary: £35,570 – £40,444 per annum

Grade: E14 | Directorate: Legal & Governance

Reports to: Legal Practice Manager

About the role

The East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) is building a new organisation with an ambitious vision for the East Midlands — making our region more prosperous, sustainable and fairer.

We are looking for an organised, proactive and digitally confident Legal Support Officer to join our Legal & Governance team.

This is a varied role providing essential administrative, operational and digital support to the Legal Practice Manager and General Counsel. You'll help ensure our Legal Services function operates efficiently, with effective systems, processes and workflows in place.

You'll also play a key role as a super user for Legal Services systems, helping colleagues use technology effectively and identifying opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.

What you'll do

You’ll:

• Support the effective day-to-day delivery of Legal Services.
• Manage and improve administrative systems, processes and workflows.
• Act as a super user for the Legal Case Management system, supporting users, access, permissions, troubleshooting and system improvements.
• Coordinate the Legal Inbox and instructions process, including triage, allocation and workflow monitoring.
• Manage contracts, agreements, signing and sealing processes.
• Support recruitment, induction, training, starters and leavers.
• Maintain accurate records, spreadsheets and tracking systems to support performance and legal spend monitoring.
• Support financial and administrative processes across the service.
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes and data quality.
• Handle sensitive information with discretion and ensure issues and risks are appropriately escalated.

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

About Disability Confident

Disability Confident is a government scheme. It encourages employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with long term health conditions.

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