Legal and Contracts Manager

An opportunity for a Legal and Contracts Manager has arisen in a fantastic values-driven health charity.

Location: Remote working, with travel to Head Office in Aldgate, London on ad-hoc basis

Salary: £50,000 - £56,000

As Legal and Contracts Manager, you will provide bespoke in-house legal advice relating to all aspects of the charity s work, with a focus on contracting and offering wide ranging governance advice.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing advice and support with, procurement, managing risk, dispute resolution, brand protection, contract negotiation, relationship management, policy making, due diligence
• Driving process improvement in governance, reviewing and revising processes and structures to adapt to the needs of the Chief Executive, Committee Chairs, Trustees and Executives
• Liaising with lawyers/legal advisors and/or contract managers and advisors in other organisations
• Keeping up to date in areas of law relevant to the activities and functions of the charity
• Assisting in the set up and management of the charity compliance programme, with a particular focus on ensuring readiness for registration with regulatory bodies
• Working closely with the Executive Directors & SMT to manage mitigation of risks associated with regulatory compliance and contractual activity across the charity

The successful candidate will have minimum 3 years of experience practicing as a solicitor or barrister (or equivalent) either in house or private practice and will have a practical understanding of governance and regulatory compliance within the UK charity sector (or willingness to get up to speed quickly). Awareness of the political, social, and economic environment in which the charity operates is key, as is experience of direct negotiation between multiple parties in time pressured or sensitive circumstances. You must have strong interpersonal gravitas with a wide range of audiences and a tenacious attitude and a self-motivated approach to work.

If this sounds like you and you re keen to hear more, then please do get in touch!

Please note, only successful candidates will be contacted with further information.

As leading charity recruitment specialists and a certified B Corp , Harris Hill is committed to high and ever-improving standards of equitable and inclusive recruitment. We actively welcome applications from all sections of the community regardless of age, disability, gender, race, religion, sexuality and other protected characteristics.