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Development Solicitor

Employer
Riverside
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside
Salary
£60,000 per annum (10% salary increase after 12 months' service, dependent on work performance)
Closing date
24 Sep 2019

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Function
Corporate Services, Legal
Seniority
Partner
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Organisation Type
Housing association / RP

Job Details

Riverside are looking to recruit a new team of brilliant and results driven legal professionals to proactively support Riverside’s varied and interesting legal work. We have an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced, pragmatic and solutions focussed Development Solicitor working full-time, on a permanent basis at our head office in Speke, Liverpool. You will be entitled to a 10% salary increase after 12 months’ service, dependent on performance.
Interviews will commence on 18th October 2019.

What will you do?
You will provide or procure high quality, well-judged and informed legal advice to the business in relation to a wide variety of development law matters. You will ensure that all development law matters are well managed and dealt with in an efficient and cost-effective manner, whether in-house or by the panel. Working closely with the commercial and property lawyers in the legal team to ensure excellent delivery of holistic development-related legal advice.

Day to day
Your key responsibilities as Riverside’s Development Solicitor:

Senior lead
• To be the “go to” person on all development law matters.
• To be an excellent ambassador for the team and support the business positively and constructively in achieving its ambitions.

Legal advice
• To provide, procure and manage high quality, well-judged and informed legal advice on a wide variety of non-contentious and contentious development matters.

Role in the team
• To assist the Director in all matters.
• To develop good quality management information to demonstrate the impact of the legal team

Learning and development
• To provide or procure training on development matters, as required by the business.
• To develop knowledge of new areas of law if required, in order to provide an internal point of expertise
For a deeper understanding of your responsibilities, take a look at the job description linked below.

Does this describe you?
You are an expert in a wide range of non-contentious and contentious development law matters and have strong awareness of commercial and property law issues as they affect development. Essentially, you have previously worked within a complex organisation, ideally in or for the charitable or public sector and ideally in a similar role at a similar level of seniority. You have the technical legal ability to do the work and to manage the work (if outsourced) and have brilliant people skills to lead and manage a team of legal professionals.

What’s in it for you?
In return for your hard work and dedication, we offer you:
• Opt-in to our auto-enrolment pension scheme (employee rate 3% and employer rate 5%) or our enhanced pension scheme (employee rate 6% and employer rate 9%)
• Group Life cover employee-funded benefit (3x annual salary in the event of a death in service)
• Flexible working
• 25 days holiday per year (plus bank holidays)
• Family friendly benefits providing enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption

Who are Riverside?
We are one of the UK’s leading social housing and regeneration organisations. We are a group of not-for-profit and commercial companies with a charitable housing association at our core. Operating across 160 local authorities in England and Scotland and housing 100,000+ people, we are fully committed to improving the lives of thousands of individuals and families. We seek to transform lives and revitalise neighbourhoods.

If you’re thinking of joining us as a Development Solicitor, we’d love to hear from you. We encourage applicants from all sections of the community so that we can truly reflect the neighbourhoods in which we work.

Company

We’re glad you’re thinking about coming to work with us at Riverside.

Our people are our greatest asset and it’s an exciting time to be joining us. We are transforming to build a leaner, smarter organisation so we can deliver more homes and better services.

We’ve also launched our 2017-20 Corporate Plan – and we’ve got big ambitions for the next 10 years as we approach our centenary.

If you’re the kind of person that wants to do a really great job and make a difference to our customers, we think you’ll love it here.

We are supporting our people to excel in a collaborative culture where change is the norm, where your health and wellbeing matters, and where everyone understands how they and their work fits in.

We are rewarding our people with competitive pay, a wide range of benefits, flexible working and employee offers.

We are empowering our people to do great work by investing in learning, personal development and technology.

And we are listening, using our Employee Forums, Workplace Trust and staff groups to help people thrive, regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation or ethnic background.

Together we care about our customers, we care about our neighbourhoods, and we care about the places where our people work.

Company info
Website
Mini-site
Riverside
Telephone
0845 112 7722
Location
2 Estuary Boulevard
Estuary Commerce Park
Liverpool
L24 8RF
GB

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