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Join Save the Children UK as a Legal and Compliance Counsel and make a significant impact on child rights and welfare.
Overview
Salary
£55400 - £64000
Location
London, UK
Expires
Expires at anytime
Organisation summary: Save the Children UK is at the forefront of advocating and ensuring a brighter future for children globally. With a commitment to providing a healthy start, education, and protection from harm, this organization is a beacon of hope during crises, reaching even the most inaccessible children. As a part of this team, you can contribute to transformative outcomes for millions of children around the world.
- Role Summary:
- Provide strategic legal and compliance advice for UK and international programs.
- Engage with internal stakeholders and collaborate with the Save the Children International team.
- Offer guidance on policy, advocacy, campaigns, fundraising, retail, and marketing.
- Model professionalism and maintain high ethical standards.
- Role Requirements:
- Significant post-qualification experience in areas such as corporate/commercial/contract law, employment, finance, charity/not-for-profit, or litigation.
- Experience gained in-house or in a proactive private practice environment.
- Ability to deliver pragmatic, legally sound solutions while partnering with various teams.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, capable of simplifying complex legal issues.
- Flexibility and agility to adapt to changing priorities.
- Benefits:
- Work with a sense of purpose and reward in improving children's lives.
- Enjoy flexibility, inclusivity, and a focus on health and wellbeing.
- Access to a comprehensive range of employee benefits.
We're looking for a mid-senior level lawyer to join our brilliant team of legal and compliance specialists as a Legal and Compliance Counsel, where you'll have the opportunity to lead on fascinating, challenging, and meaningful work as part of an innovative, ambitious and values-driven child rights organisation.
About Us Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.
About the Role As a trusted business partner with a strategic outlook, you'll proactively and pragmatically advise and engage with internal stakeholders on a broad range of legal issues, as well as collaborate dynamically and effectively across Save the Children International (the international programming arm of Save the Children) and with other members of the Save the Children global movement. You will provide first-class legal and compliance advice to SCUK and its subsidiaries in respect of their UK and international programmes; policy, advocacy and campaigns work; and fundraising, retail and marketing activities, modelling professionalism, pragmatism, excellence and integrity in doing so.
Job Requirements Significant post-qualification experience with expertise in one or more of the following areas: general corporate / commercial / contract, employment, finance, charity / not-for-profit, litigation. Broad experience gained in–house or in a pro-active private practice environment. Ability to business partner with a function / team / client, to understand their priorities and to arrive at pragmatic, legally sound solutions. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex issues clearly at all levels and with diverse audiences. Well-developed negotiating skills and high ethical standards. Ability to remain agile and flexible in the context of changing priorities.
Benefits Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance. We focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health and wellbeing both in and outside of work. We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
