Job details
Job reference: REQ4421
Date posted: 16/09/2024
Application closing date: 01/10/2024
Location: Hybrid working - Home and Leicester City Offices
Salary: £40,221 - £51,515 per year
Package: Total benefit value (includes pension contribution and full holiday entitlement) £70,244
Contractual hours: 37
Basis: Full time
Job category/type: Legal
Qualified Lawyer Property & Planning
Full Time / 37 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term for 9 Months to cover maternity leave with a possibility of extension.
Are you a Qualified Lawyer who has experience in providing advice on a complex range of property, highways, and planning transactions? This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Lawyer to join our service working within the Property, Highways and Planning Team. Working within a friendly and supportive team, you’ll report directly to the Principal Lawyer (Property, Highways & Planning) and work collaboratively with other Lawyers and occasionally external stakeholders. We offer flexible working, including home working with dedicated legal support, promoting a healthy work-life balance. This is your chance to make a difference and join a professional and experienced team of lawyers.
As a Qualified Lawyer with experience in Property, Highways and Planning Law, you’ll confidently and competently advise and support the property, highways, and planning functions of the Council, including the governance around the planning function and decision making, occasionally providing legal advice to the Council as a developer. Dealing primarily with cases within your area of specialism, you’ll develop your own skills and experience whilst working closely with other legal teams and areas.
What you’ll be doing:
You’ll provide secure high-quality legal services, advice on all aspects of property law, highways law, and planning law, and work closely with the Council’s departments to support the Council’s functions. You’ll routinely attend and advise at Planning Committees. Using your expertise, you’ll provide solutions-focused property, highways, and planning law advice and support to the Council and other public bodies.
What you’ll need:
As a highly skilled lawyer, you’ll have significant knowledge of Property, Highways, and Planning Law and practice. With the ability to work as part of a team, you’ll ensure the provision of quality, client-focused, and cost-effective legal services. Using strong communication skills, you’ll build and manage external relationships with clients, carrying through assigned tasks and matters to conclusion. Pragmatic in your advice, talented, and proactive, you’ll work effectively with client departments to find solutions.
What we can offer you:
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme, and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from several flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains.
Join us:
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome, and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.
For a chat about this post, please feel free to contact Zoe Iliffe, Principal Lawyer (Property, Highways & Planning) or Kevin Carter, Head of Law (Commercial & Property) – 0116 454 4197.
To apply, simply click on Apply Online, complete your personal details and attach your CV or supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the essential criteria.
Assessment/Interviews will take place on Monday 14th October 2024.
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