Legal Support Officer - London, United Kingdom - Office of Rail and Road

Office of Rail and Road

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £30,103 - £33,436

London: £30,103 £33,436
Job grade:

Executive Officer

Grade F
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
ORR
Legal
Type of role:
Administration / Corporate Support
Working pattern:
Fulltime
Number of jobs available:
1Contents

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Location

25 Cabot Square, London, E14 4QZAbout the job

Job summary:

Team information:

Legal Services is a highly regarded team from a mixture of Civil Service and private practice backgrounds.

The team provides legal advice in respect of all ORR's functions and on corporate matters such as IT and employment.

Job description:

Job Purpose:

The Legal Support Officer provides support to the legal team in relation to any contentious work they do and also provides executive assistance to the Deputy Director and General Counsel.

In addition, the post holder will support the Legal Business and Litigation Manager so that the team's administrative support is high quality and provided to time.

The post is an opportunity for someone to gain hands on experience of legal process and working with lawyers in a dynamic and successful legal team.

Person specification:

For key responsibilities please see the attached job description

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace
Communicating and Influencing
Working Together
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Strong IT skills, particularly Microsoft office packages (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel); and the ability to quickly pick up any in-house and other office systems such as MS Teams with mínimal training.

Benefits:

Find out what our colleagues have to say about their ORR careers Our people, Office of Rail and Road ).

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Selection process details:

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security:

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) (opens in a new window)

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 (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service:

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative.
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