Solicitor

The National Lottery Community Fund; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Lottery Community Fund is looking for a Solicitor to join a large in-house legal team with no line management responsibilities. You will provide legal advice across grant making, contracts, procurement, charity, litigation, insolvency, subsidy control, debt recovery and public law.

The successful candidate will research new areas of law quickly, help improve internal processes and precedents, and work autonomously on a busy workload with collaborative support.

Qualifications

• Experience in-house or private practice across a broad range of matters.
• Knowledge of subsidy control, debt recovery and public law is beneficial.
• Experience in the UK is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide legal advice across grant making, contracts, procurement, charity, litigation and public law.
• Research new areas of law quickly and upskill as needed.
• Help improve Fund's internal processes and precedents.
• Handle autonomous matters and legal queries with minimal supervision.

Skills

In-house experience

Public law

Debt recovery

Litigation

Education

Qualified solicitor

Job description

At The National Lottery Community Fund, we are driven by our strategy, ‘It starts with community’ and its four community-led missions, as well as our equity-based approach to tackling poverty, discrimination and disadvantage.

We have an opportunity for a Solicitor to join a large team of thirteen, with no line management responsibilities. We are a fast paced in-house legal team which works on a very broad range of matters.

The successful candidate will be required to provide legal advice across areas of law including but not limited to grant making, contracts, procurement, charity, litigation, insolvency, subsidy control, debt recovery and public law.

In addition to providing substantive advice, the role requires a solicitor to be able to research and upskill on new areas of law very swiftly. It is also expected that the solicitor will use their legal knowledge to help improve the Fund’s internal processes and precedents, as well as ensuring that the Fund complies with statutory and regulatory frameworks at all times.

The bulk of the solicitor’s workload will consist of autonomous matters and legal queries. These will need to be answered in a timely manner. Support and supervision is always available and the legal team works on a very collaborative basis. The solicitor will also work with colleagues on larger scale projects when the opportunity arises.

Experience working in a busy in-house or private practice environment would be ideal, as would experience dealing with a range of clients, and experience with public law or public bodies. Knowledge of debt recovery/litigation and subsidy control law would be beneficial, as would experience gained in the UK.

Format: Virtual

Location: Can be based anywhere in the UK - We have a hybrid approach to working. Work pattern and location will be agreed with the successful candidate. The role can be based at any of our UK offices, these are Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester and Newcastle.

Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Communities in the UK come in all shapes and sizes. National Lottery funding is for everyone – therefore, we are committed to equity, diversity and inclusion and we work hard to ensure our funding reaches where it is needed.

We also believe our people should represent the communities, organisations and individuals we work with. That’s why The National Lottery Community Fund is committed to being an inclusive employer and a great place to work. We recognise and celebrate the fact that our people come from diverse backgrounds. We positively welcome applications from people from ethnic minority backgrounds, people with disabilities or longstanding health conditions, people who are LGBTQ+, and people from different socio‑economic and educational backgrounds, as well as people of all ages.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we take a proactive approach in making reasonable adjustments, if needed, throughout the recruitment process and during employment. (This can be related to a physical and mental health condition.)