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About the Role
As Legal Counsel at The King's Trust, you will provide expert legal advice, manage risk, and support governance to ensure programs, partnerships, and fundraising activities create life-changing opportunities for young people. This is a broad and influential in-house role advising on contracts, charity law, data protection, intellectual property, and governance matters, acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Providing expert legal advice
- Managing risk
- Supporting strong governance across the Trust
- Advising on contracts
- Advising on charity law
- Advising on data protection
- Advising on intellectual property
- Advising on governance matters
- Acting as a trusted partner to senior stakeholders
Requirements
- Qualified solicitor or barrister
- Experience in an in-house legal team within the charity, public or commercial sectors
- Experience in private practice, particularly advising charities or not-for-profits
- Experience in contract negotiation (including private and public sector funding agreements)
- Experience in charity law
- Experience in governance
- Experience in data protection
- Experience in intellectual property matters
- Pragmatic and solutions-focused legal professional
- Confident working independently and managing a varied workload
- Skilled at translating complex legal issues into clear, practical advice
- Comfortable building relationships with stakeholders at all levels
- Motivated by the opportunity to use expertise to support a mission-driven organisation
- Must be within a commutable distance to one of the specified office locations
- Must be in the office 2-3 days a week
Skills
- Contract negotiation
- Charity law
- Governance
- Data protection
- Intellectual property
Location
- Birmingham
- Bristol
- Cardiff
- Leeds
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full Time
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- Dependent on skills, knowledge and experience
Education Level
- Qualified solicitor or barrister
Salary/Compensations
- £48,193.00 to £50,000.00 (National)
- £50,000.00 to £55,000.00 (London)
Benefits
- 30 days annual leave entitlement, plus bank holidays
- Office closure on the days between Christmas and New Year
- Flexible working (combination of office days and working from home)
- Opportunity to volunteer for and/or attend events
- In-house learning platform
- Benefits platform (health and financial well-being support, discounts)
- Personal development opportunities through Networks (KT CAN, KT GEN, KT DAWN, PULSE)
- 13 weeks of full pay and 13 weeks of half pay for maternity and adoption leave
- 8 weeks of full pay for paternity leave
- Interest-free season ticket loans
- The Trust will contribute 5% of your salary to the Trust Pension Scheme
- Generous life assurance cover (4 x annual salary)
About the Company
- At The King's Trust, everything we do is focused on helping young people build the confidence and skills they need to succeed.
- Last year, we helped more than 40,000 Young People, with three in four young people on our programmes moving into a positive outcome in work, education or training.
- The young people we help face a range of challenges, such as unemployment, mental health issues or some who have been in trouble with the law.
- We believe all young people should have the chance to succeed, and that young people are the key to a positive and prosperous future for all of us.
- We want to continue having a positive impact on young people’s lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
- Strive for diversity of age, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, race, religion and sex.
- Goal is to create an environment where everyone, from any background, can be themselves and do the best work of their lives.
- Looking for people who can bring different perspectives and experiences.
- Especially welcome applications from those who are underrepresented in our organisation and sector, such as candidates from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.
- A Stonewall Top 100 Employer.
- An employer that is Disability Confident.
- Staff, volunteers and young people are supported by KT CAN (our Cultural Awareness Network), KT GEN (Gender Equality Network), KT DAWN (Disability & Wellbeing Network) and PULSE (LGBTQIA+ Network).