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About the Role

This role offers an excellent opportunity for a recently qualified lawyer or an early-career lawyer to gain broad in-house experience within a charitable organization. You will support the Legal Services team in providing advice, guidance, and project support across the HTB Group, working closely with senior legal staff and operational teams on a wide range of legal matters.

Responsibilities

• Conduct legal research on various organizational issues.
• Draft legal advice, guidance notes, briefings, policies, and supporting documents.
• Review and advise on contracts and commercial agreements.
• Support compliance and policy initiatives.
• Assist the Group General Counsel and Director of Legal Services on legal projects.
• Manage routine and lower-risk legal matters with supervision.
• Provide practical legal guidance to internal stakeholders.
• Help develop legal knowledge and best practices across teams.
• Build relationships with external legal advisors.
• Maintain and develop legal knowledge and professional competencies.

Requirements

• Fully qualified lawyer authorized to practice in England & Wales.
• Excellent understanding and experience of commercial issues with the ability to provide pragmatic solutions.
• Working knowledge of applying data protection (primarily GDPR) legislation in a contracts and events context.
• Excellent contract drafting and review skills, attention to detail, and communication skills.
• Flexibility to provide legal advice in new contexts, interest in learning, and using transferable legal skills.
• Strong working knowledge of the UK data protection regime.
• Commercial outlook.
• Ability to train and advise staff on legal aspects of their projects.
• Gravitas to work effectively with staff at all levels.
• Ability to develop strong working relationships with departmental teams.
• Team player with initiative, ability to prioritize, and problem-solving attitude in a complex and dynamic context.

Skills

• Commercial issues
• Data protection (GDPR)
• Contract drafting
• Contract review
• Attention to detail
• Communication
• Legal advice
• Legal research
• Problem-solving

Location

• England & Wales

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Junior
• Early-career
• Recently qualified

Education Level

• Fully qualified lawyer

Salary/Compensations

• £40,000 - £55,000

Benefits

• 25 days annual leave (plus public holidays), increasing with service
• Pension scheme contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Medicash plan
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• Access to training and development resources

About the Company

• A charitable organisation.