Job Description

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Reference number

401844
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Salary

130,000
(and 3,566 London weighting where relevant). Generous Civil Service defined benefit pension.
A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
GBP
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Job grade

SCS Pay Band 2###

Contract type

Permanent###

Type of role

Legal Services###

Working pattern

Full-time###

Number of jobs available

1

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Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information

Location

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Lime Kiln Close Stoke Gifford Filton Abbey Wood BRISTOL - 10 South Colonnade Canary Wharf London

About the job

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Job summary

The OfS is the statutory regulator for higher education in England. We are currently consulting on a new strategy to ensure that students from all backgrounds benefit from high quality higher education, delivered by a diverse, sustainable sector that continues to improve. We regulate a complex and diverse sector operating in a challenging environment. Our work is wide-ranging: we set regulatory standards and are increasingly using our regulatory tools, including where providers are responding to significant financial pressures and facing insolvency. To continue to protect the interests of students in this difficult context our approach to regulation needs to be confident and agile.###

Job description

An exciting opportunity now arises to join us in the newly shaped role of General Counsel. Reporting to the CEO, you will be the chief legal adviser to the executive committee and OfS board, responsible for shaping our understanding of the legal framework within which we work and providing legal advice across the full remit of our activity. Your strategic counsel will be critical in ensuring our risk appetite reflects our ambitions, and in providing the risk-based options and analysis required to enable effective decision making. You will be responsible for the thirty strong legal team in the organisation, working closely with our Deputy and Assistant Heads of Legal to enhance a collaborative and enabling culture, building close partnerships between the legal team and all parts of the organisation.###

Person specification

You will be a qualified solicitor or barrister with significant post-qualification experience dealing with many legal practice areas related to the application of UK public and regulatory law. You will have a track record of providing risk-based advice at the most senior levels of organisations that heeds and takes due consideration of the wider strategic context. You will be comfortable making complex risk-based decisions, often in untested and ambiguous circumstances, and will be able to quickly grasp the regulatory and legal frameworks under which the OfS carries out its duties. As a leader of people, you will be able to demonstrate how you have developed legal teams in a way that has supported and enabled decision making throughout organisations. How we do things is as important to us as what we do and your approach will be underpinned by our values of Ambition, Openness, Learning and Diversity.

Benefits

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Alongside your salary of 130,000, Office for Students contributes 37,661 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.Learning and development tailored to your role An environment with flexible working options A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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Selection process details

This role provides something few others can: the opportunity to engage with real intellectual stimulation in novel and complex legal matters, which will require you to provide thought leadership, and deliver genuine impact in driving positive outcomes for students across England. For a confidential discussion about this role and your suitability, please contact our recruitment partner, GatenbySanderson, via Matt Malone matt.malone@gatenbysanderson.com



Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.###

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.###

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:


UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements
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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.###

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

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Job contact :

Name : Matt Malone Email : matt.malone@gatenbysanderson.com
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Recruitment team

Email : matt.malone@gatenbysanderson.com ###

Follow link to apply

Job Page | Office for Students.