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About the Role
Provide expert legal leadership on planning, highways, and licensing decisions that shape the borough. Lead a specialist legal team advising on complex matters to ensure robust, transparent decisions supporting communities and the future of the borough.
Responsibilities
- Lead a team of around ten legal professionals, ensuring high-quality legal advice delivery.
- Manage and develop the legal team.
- Handle a caseload of complex and high-profile planning matters.
- Advise senior officers and elected members on significant decisions.
- Attend committee meetings, providing legal, procedural, and governance advice.
- Work closely with Monitoring Officers and senior colleagues to shape policy and guide decision-making.
- Contribute to the ongoing development of the service.
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and professional growth within the team.
Requirements
- Qualified Solicitor or Barrister entitled to practise in England and Wales.
- Strong experience in planning and also highways or licensing law.
- Proven track record of leading or managing legal teams.
- Ability to provide clear and confident legal advice on complex matters.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable advising senior officers and elected members.
- Ability to communicate complex legal issues in a clear and practical way.
- Strong judgment.
- Political awareness.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving local government environment.
- Commitment to professional standards, equality, and inclusive service delivery.
- Experience or interest in wider areas of local government law.
Skills
- Legal leadership
- Planning law
- Highways law
- Licensing law
- Team management
- Legal advice
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Judgment
- Political awareness
- Policy shaping
- Governance advice
Location
- Central London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Principal level
- Management experience
Education Level
- Qualified Solicitor or Barrister
Salary/Compensations
- Grade J
Benefits
- Opportunities to broaden expertise
- Develop leadership skills
- Supportive environment
- Innovation encouraged
- Professional growth prioritized
- Flexible working arrangements
- Collaborative team culture
- Work-life balance
About the Company
- Kensington and Chelsea is home to diverse communities, thriving businesses and unique local places.
- Everything we do is focused on supporting our residents, strengthening our approach and creating a fairer borough.
- A competent and caring Council that takes pride in its work every day, ensuring services are delivered with care and competence.
- We listen to our residents, act with integrity and work together to build a borough that is greener, safer and fairer for all.
- The 'we're all in' mindset is central to this role.
- RBKC is investing in its people, communities, and future.
- Respected legal service supporting two central London councils.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to promoting equality and respecting diversity.
- Welcome applications from all sections of the community.
- Disability Confident Employer – committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.