Part-Time Legal Counsel Leeds, England
Job description
About The Role
We are looking for a Legal Counsel to join our Legal Team on a part time, permanent basis (3 days per week).
As a key member of the Legal Team you will play a pivotal role in a growing business, providing in-house legal support and strengthening existing legal compliance and governance across the business. Reporting to the Head of Legal you will work with and support a number of teams across the business. This is a great opportunity for a commercial solicitor to join a growing business.
We are flexible on remote working but would like you to be within travelling distance of our Leeds office and be able to come into the office at least twice a month. The salary for this position is up to £40K PTE (£66.5K FTE)
You will be involved in:
- Providing legal advice across Hippo Digital
- Being the lead lawyer involved in guiding the business on numerous client contract negotiations, reviewing and drafting contracts and inputting into bids as required
- Advising the business on how to manage risks and helping to strengthen relationships with our customers through the contracting process
- Providing briefings and training across Hippo Digital to promote an understanding of key and new legal issues important to our business
- Ensuring all contracts, legal documents and templates are regularly reviewed, up-to-date and compliant with laws and best practice, and maintaining mechanisms to monitor on-going compliance
- Periodic and pro-active review of legal and compliance risks ensuring checks are in place to detect and control such risks
- Instructing, managing and building strong, amicable relationships with external legal partners where necessary
Skills and experience that you need
- You’ll be a qualified Solicitor with a minimum of 5 years PQE in order to have gained the relevant experience required to do the role
- You’ll have experience of IT and digital contracts and in leading digital consultancy based contract negotiations including spotting and mitigating risks associated with digital project delivery
- You’ll have strong knowledge of commercial contracts, general services agreements, consultancy agreements, data protection, commercial and wider company law matters
- You’ll be able to work in a fast-paced environment with clients who need pragmatic advice
- Ability to effectively translate complex matters into easily understood legal advice
- Exceptional technical and legal drafting skills
- A hands-on approach to problem solving, excellent interpersonal skills and a high degree of integrity are all required
- You’ll be highly organised and able to independently manage a busy workload
Desirable, but not essential:
- You’ll ideally have experience of public procurement frameworks such as DOS, G Cloud and Digital Capability for Health.
- Ideally you’ll have some experience of working in-house or as part of a small legal team where both a strategic and hands-on approach is required
What makes us great
As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:
- Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
- 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
- Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
- Critical illness cover
- Life assurance and death in service cover
- Volunteer days
- Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
- Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Financial and general wellbeing sessions
- Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
- private health cover
- private dental cover
- additional company pension contributions
- additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
- wellbeing contribution
- charity contributions
- tree planting
Hi, we’re Hippo.
We are a full-service digital consultancy. We deliver meaningful transformation by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and digital engineering. By combining all three disciplines, we approach problems on a human level and provide end-to-end solutions, solving whole problems for organisations from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement.
We partner with our customers to successfully delivers transformational programmes and help them thrive as modern digital organisations. With a strong people-focused culture and vibrant community, Hippo continues expanding its portfolio of public-sector and private-sector customers. We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver. Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people-first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.
What makes Hippo unique is our amazing people and the great culture that we have built. Join the Hippo herd on our journey to make the world more accessible.
Hippo locations
Our Hippo offices are in Leeds, London, Bristol, Birmingham and Manchester. However, we invite candidates to apply from anywhere in the UK who can be flexible regarding location. We offer a relocation support package of up to £8k to help cover the cost of moving somewhere within commuting distance of one of our locations. Please note that due to the nature of the business, we may also request that you work from client locations or your home.
How Hippo Digital embraces diversity and equal opportunity
Hippo Digital is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, diversity and inclusion are not just tick-boxing activities but a chance to make meaningful long-term changes. A diverse workforce means we can unlock our ability to innovate, be creative, be better problem solvers and provide an inclusive environment for everyone. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
Job Types: Part-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £40,000.00 per year
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Leeds, LS1
