Head of Legal - Stroud, United Kingdom - Ecotricity

Ecotricity

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Stroud, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:

Stroud
Salary Details:
Competitive and DoE
About The Role

***We are a small, busy, friendly inhouse team managing all of the legal and corporate affairs of Green Britain Group and its subsidiaries. We are looking for someone to join the Legal Team as Head of Legal or as Senior Legal Counsel with a view to developing into the Head of Legal with a broad range of responsibilities. It is envisaged that the role will have two direct reports and report into the COO & Group General Counsel.

Core Responsibilities
This is a very diverse role, supporting and leading the Legal Team in its work across the Group.

Your principal responsibilities will be:
Projects & Generation

Taking the lead on supporting the Generation & Projects team with legal aspects relating to project development, construction, operation and finance/refinance
Work likely to include construction contracts (EPC or EPCm), supply contracts, O&M contracts, offtake agreements and finance agreements

Commercial

Broad mix of commercial contract work across the portfolio including energy and football related work
May include drafting and reviewing nondisclosure agreements, consultancy arrangements, contracts for services, supply contracts, licensing agreements and partnership/endorsement contracts

Property

Property portfolio support, including group real estate and renewable energy assets Intellectual Property
Overseeing the group's intellectual property portfolio
Registering trademarks, patents and other rights and overseeing renewals Litigation
Advising on and helping to resolve complex queries and disputes, and drafting/reviewing letters of claim
Helping to gather and compile evidence for court proceedings
Supporting the enforcement team with the recovery of debt

Other

Oversight of Corporate administration
Advising on legal and regulatory compliance across the various sector in which the Group operates (supporting the Regulatory & Compliance Team)
Instructing and managing external counsel
Managing a team

About You
***You are an efficient self-starter with an interest in a wide variety of legal work and the ability to adapt in an environment where no two days are the same. You will have prior experience and a keen interest in renewable energy or construction projects and be passionate about wanting to make a difference, about changing the way we live. You are happy picking up queries and matters outside of your immediate comfort zone and have excellent commercial judgment.

Skill Set Required

Prior inhouse experience would be an advantage as would prior management experience
Excellent written & verbal communication and time management skills
Accuracy, tenacity, diplomacy & integrity.

About Us
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What's in it for you...
Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis.

This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity
- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain
- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too
- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2023, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of
- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though
- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.