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- Managing a team of four research associates. Being the first point of escalation contact for the team to discuss matters with.
- Provide specialist legal support (ideally directly or through engagement with LSTM's external lawyers where appropriate) in specialist legal areas such as HR/employment, construction, real estate, company law, charity law, GDPR/data protection, IP and IT.
- Draft commercial contract matters including using contract-law experience in negotiating, drafting and advising on various types of commercial contracts and the related issues.
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- Completion of the Legal Practice Course, Bar Vocational Course or equivalent and qualified to practice as a Solicitor or equivalent in England and Wales
- Experience of working in a professional contract and/or general legal role.
- Experience of managing a team
- Experience of preparing, reviewing, and negotiating a range of contracts for internal and external review.
- Excellent knowledge, experience and understanding of developments in relevant legislation, practices and procedures
- Experience of working and investigating across a range of legal issues, and a range of corporate entities e.g. dealings between business and charitable/not for profit organisations.
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- Outstanding writing skills, with the ability to write/prepare high quality papers, presentations, reports and briefings to senior audiences.
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Deputy Head of Legal - Liverpool, United Kingdom - LSTM
Description
Are you an in-house legal professional looking for your next challenge?
Do you want to work for a global organisation, with the opportunity to get involved in strategic projects?
Here at the Liverpool School of Tropical of Medicine (LSTM), we are going through a period of growth, and we are looking to expand our team of in-house legal experts.
In this newly created role, you will work closely with the Head of Legal to help shape the future and direction of the department, whilst providing broad legal support to LSTM's academic and professional services teams, across the business.
You will also provide oversight to LSTM'S research contracts team and act as an escalation point and a referral point for non-research matters. You will be comfortable leading on contract details with partners, collaborators, service providers and consultants, on a range of commercial contracts both within the UK and globally.
Why LSTM?
This is an exciting time to join LSTM as we continue to grow our global partnerships throughout our 125 th anniversary year. There are many interesting projects underway involving varied work and we are looking for an energetic, positive and dynamic individual who is looking for a challenging and varied role and is keen to progress within an environment that is supportive and empowering.
We have a hybrid working style and the successful applicant would be expected to be based in Liverpool.
Your role will include, but not be limited to:
Ideally, you will be a qualified solicitor working within private practice, in-house, charity, a public authority or an education institution. You will need to demonstrate substantive core experience in commercial contract law-related matters including experience in negotiating, drafting and advising on various types of commercial contracts and the related issues.
The ideal candidate will demonstrate:
For a full list of essential criteria, please see job description attached.
Application process: to apply for this role, please submit your CV via the 'apply' link below. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role.
Inclusion is central to our values at LSTM
We seek to attract and recruit people who reflect the diversity across our communities, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, faith or belief, social background, age and disability. LSTM selects candidates based on skills, qualifications, and experience.
We welcome conversations about flexible working; and applications from those returning to employment after a break from their careers.
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