Senior Legal Counsel - International Education - 7646

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 83,000 - 111,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical

Permanent Health Insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Group personal pension

Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a global academic publisher and assessment organisation, seeks a Senior Legal Counsel – International Education to provide pragmatic, commercial legal advice across the International Education product group.

The role supports a diverse, international portfolio, with hybrid working arrangements and a focus on governance, compliance, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experienced commercial lawyer with ability to provide pragmatic, commercial legal advice.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice and support to colleagues in the International Education product group around the world as well as to colleagues in other shared services teams.
• Advise on complex and larger matters, working independently, representing the Assistant General Counsel when required.
• Develop strong working relationships across International Education and with the shared functions and wider business.
• Advise on the US business, digitisation agenda, and customer/learner data privacy compliance.
• This position has a hybrid requirement with 40–60% in-person collaboration at the dedicated location.

Job description

Job Title: Senior Legal Counsel – International Education

Salary: £82,900 - £110,950 per annum, depending on level of experience

Location: Cambridge, UK

Contract: Full time, permanent, but open to considering part-time

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are looking for an experiencedcommercial lawyer to come and help us support our global International Education business with pragmatic, commercial legal advice.

This is an opportunity for you to join Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA), an approachable team which empowers the business to make effective and ethical choices and is enthusiastic about operational excellence to help us continually improve the way we support Cambridge.

We are a large yet close-knit team that supports each other, enjoys solving problems, and loves changing the way our colleagues think about Legal, Business Ethics and Compliance. We are seeking team members who share our passion and our values: collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible.

Why would you join us?

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success.

We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual isrecognised, listened to, and cared for. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way.

Whether you want a careerthat islinear, or want to follow your own path,we'llsupport you and help give you the resources and trainingyou willneed to be bold and take ownership of what you do.

We are particularly focused on inclusion and improving diversity at all levels in the organisation, including for this role. We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches leads to innovation and creates an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued.

What can we offer you?

The role is a key part of the International Education legal team in Legal & Business Affairs, providing support to the global International Education product group. You would work on a broad range of matters, both contractual and advisory and contentious and non-contentious, with great colleagues.

No day in the International Education legal team is the same and the role offers a really varied caseload due to the changing nature of our business, the variety of the products and services that fall within the International Education product group - including the delivery of high-stakes examinations, international publishing, and advice to governments on education reform - and the international reach of our work (we provide services to over 10,000 schools worldwide in over 160 countries in 9 regions) as part of a global organisation with offices in over 50 countries.

On top ofthis, working with Cambridge will also give you stability. We show our care for our people by supporting them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leave. In addition, you will be entitled to our health care benefits with coverage for dependents, group life insurance, and robust wellbeing programmes right from the first day of joining us.

We also care about the world around us. We're a founding catalyst member of General Counsel Sustainability Forum, and a member of LawWorks (a UK charity working to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal funding), as well as supporting social mobility initiatives promoting wider access to our professions. We have our own Wellbeing and Green groups within the department and are key contributors to the organisation's sustainability strategy.

What will you do in this role?

In this role, you will report to the Assistant General Counsel – International Education. You will provide legal advice and support to colleagues in our International Education product group around the world as well as to colleagues in other shared services teams, including Finance and Tax.

You will act as a key business partner and advise on complex and larger matters, working independently, representing the Assistant General Counsel where required, and helping to supervise the work of more junior members of the team. You will be expected to develop strong working relationships across International Education and with the shared functions and wider business. In particular, we have a growing need for advice for our US business, our digitisation agenda, and on the customer and learner aspects of our data privacy compliance.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimumcriteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practical and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimumcriteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexiblerewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be2nd November. We will review applications on an ongoing basis and interviews may be held on a rolling basis. To avoid disappointment, we encourage candidates to apply early, as we reserve the right to close this vacancy before the advertised closing date should we receive sufficient applications from suitably qualified candidates.

As part of the recruitment process, you can expect:

• A first-round interview via Microsoft Teams.
• A second-round, face-to-face interview in Cambridge if successful following the first-round interview.
• An additional face-to-face interview in Cambridge, if required.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.