Head of Legal Services
Incommunities
·Yesterday
- Salary
- £90k+/yr
- Location
- Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Office based
- Seniority
- Director
- Experience
- 7+ years
- Visa
- Not sponsored
- Source
- Workable
Description
We are recruiting a qualified Head of Legal Services, specialising in contract law to join our team. This is a highly visible role, providing expert legal advice and strategic guidance to support executive decision-making and organisational goals. You will play a key role in mitigating legal risk, ensuring compliance and providing effective legal oversight across the organisation. This is a great opportunity for someone looking to make a positive and lasting difference.
If you have recently interviewed for this role, you need not re-apply on this occasion.
About us
We are a social housing landlord and one of the largest housing providers in the region with over 22,000 social and affordable homes, mainly in the Bradford district. We employ a talented workforce of nearly 1,000 people.
In 2024 we launched our five-year Corporate Strategy, which runs to 2029. Our purpose is to provide high quality homes, services, and support to our customers, so we’ve worked with colleagues and customers to find out what’s important to them. Our customers sit at the heart of what we do, and our colleagues are the people who’ll help us achieve our vision, which is to create the best customer experience to improve everyday lives.
Duties include:
- Oversee all legal activity and spend for the organisation; ensuring value for money is achieved as well as delivering a high-quality legal service from both internal and external lawyers.
- Oversee the operation of the internal legal teams (litigation and property services) and the effective management of their budgets.
- Point of contact for our partner law firms - holding quarterly review meetings to ensure high quality of service is provided within their terms of engagement as well as optimising their added value services.
- Provide monthly progress reports to the Executive Management Team (EMT) and escalate relevant legal risks / issues accordingly – presenting to EMT and Board when required
- Senior legal advisor to Executive, Directors and Senior Leaders on relevant legal matters – supporting our legal needs and drafting, negotiating and vetting contracts, legal documents and agreements.
- Establish a legal framework which aims to deliver a bespoke legal training programme which helps mitigate our key risks.
- Effectively manage both strategic and operational legal risks within the established risk tolerance.