Paralegal

Description:

Paralegal - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12 months (possible extension)

Contracting Authority: Government Legal Department (GLD)

Location: Hybrid working (3 days per week in Leeds or Manchester office and remaining WFH)

Purpose of the role:

A GLD paralegal is someone with legal knowledge, experience and/or qualifications who undertakes legal tasks that would otherwise be carried out by a lawyer.

The role involves working to deliver GLD's service to clients under an appropriate level of supervision including in preparing legal documents, undertaking legal research, supporting project management and promoting knowledge management. When the business need arises, the post-holder will be expected to support Business Management colleagues with their work.

The specific work tasks of the role are likely to vary depending on the Division and Team to which the post-holder is allocated, with differing levels of accountability for owning caseloads/pieces of advice/matter/bill work. The post-holder should have the interpersonal skills to work as part of a team and to interact with departmental/cross divisional colleagues, and other stakeholders. They will be able to prioritise work effectively, work to deadlines and showcase behaviours that align to GLD's culture and values. The post-holder will typically report to a lawyer but will often support a wider team, subject to workloads and available resources.

The main duties and responsibilities of the Paralegal would be:

Acting at all times in accordance with GLD's standards and policies and maintaining a professional, responsible, responsive and courteous service to maintain GLD's excellent reputation with stakeholders and clients.
Providing legal support to lawyers to help them build and maintain good relationships with clients.
Playing an active role in legal awareness for clients.
Carrying out legal research, presenting results and using it to inform notes or first drafts of advice.
Assisting with the management of large-scale projects such as secondary legislation, implementing new agreements, procurements, litigation and other dispute resolution and coordinating these elements across Government departments.
Planning and implementing legal projects for the team, including providing process updates.
Making effective use of information and case management/filing systems (whether electronic or hard copy), including storing and retrieving information.
Contributing to the Division's Knowledge Management material
Collating and disseminating legal know-how and updates from a range of sources.
Assisting with management of Knowledge Management (KM) for the Division, including ensuring that the Division's knowledge is well maintained and easily accessible, supporting the Division's contribution to GLD's KM activities.

You'll have:

Strong interpersonal skills, and an ability to work flexibly, effectively and across teams
Strong organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise caseloads and tasks and work to tight deadlines.
Demonstratable confidence with the ability to act independently and quickly get to grips with a complex area.
A willingness to adapt to change and promote the positive benefits of a culture of continuous improvement.
The ability to work at pace, dealing with high volumes of complex work
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
A Law degree or equivalent experience

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Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, GLD guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Commitment

GLD guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on (url removed)

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas