Lawyer - Governance (Legal Services)

Job Description What's involved with this role: Interim Lawyer - Governance (Legal Services) Ref no: Sheffield 0009 8ADB / 1 Pay Rate: up to £47.56 per hour PAYE DOE Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours Role Length: This opening assignment is for 3-4 months City: SHEFFIELD Hybrid working Key responsibilities:

• Advising on the legal requirements and limitations of a committee system of governance (including area committees)
• Advising on the legal requirements of the Council’s constitution and contributing to a review of the constitution
• Contributing to/advising on/reviewing/drafting policy documents and protocols connected with the operation of the constitution and the committee system
• Advising on the scheme of delegations within the constitution and the requirements for reports to decision-makers
• Advising on local government constitutional and administrative law
• Attending meetings as required

Key requirements:

• Law Society admitted and Solicitor Regulatory Authority registered solicitor, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives or Bar Standards Board registered barrister.
• A thorough knowledge of that area of law, good advocacy skills and considerable experience in case management
• Familiarity with the modern committee system would be a definite advantage
• Ideally previous experience of advising on/drafting local authority constitutions.
• Experience of putting complex legal concepts into plain language
• Excellent communication and presentational skills both verbal and written including influencing and persuasion.
• Excellent ICT skills and a degree of administrative self-sufficiency although some secretarial support will be provided.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.
• Ability to absorb and interpret legislation, case law and procedures.
• Ability to assimilate facts and present these in a coherent fashion in order to facilitate desired results for the council.

Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for. ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document. Clients are generally looking for candidates who are local to, or who can commute easily to the place of work. It will help your application if your CV states, in broad terms , where you reside – there is no need for a full address. Please feel free to apply to us directly via by quoting the job reference and exact job title. If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension, you will be working at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than umbrella pay terms. We do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity. Due to the number of CVs being sent to us under current market conditions, unfortunately we cannot respond to all applications. If you have not heard from us within 3 working days please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion. We will, however, be very happy to receive future applications from you for other roles. "XR Please note that clients invariably ask us to strip out contact details from CVs before we submit them for consideration. This is always quicker and easier to do if you send your CV to us in Word format, rather than as a PDF please