PB6a Legal Advisers x 2  Compliance and Enforcement and/or Litigation
London  
£49,758 to £54,447
Job reference: 1459093

The Charity Commission registers and regulates charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.

Now is an exciting time to join us as following a reorganisation we are looking for talented individuals to develop our new specialist approach.  You can help us with this by bringing consistently greater levels of legal expertise to our regulation of charities and ensuring legal cases are defended effectively and proportionately in the tribunal and courts.
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You will be a qualified solicitor or barrister with strong analytical skills; case working skills; legal research skills; customer service and team-working skills; and be comfortable interpreting and advising on unfamiliar areas of law.

Ideally you will have experience of legal advisory work relating to charity and regulatory law and practice particularly from a Compliance perspective. 

You will be involved in: 

•    advising our Investigation, Monitoring and Enforcement function on complex legal issues arising from compliance work; and
•    conducting litigation – both defending the Commission’s decisions and bringing proactive litigation to recover charitable funds.

The benefits of working here include flexible working, access to the Civil Service Pension Scheme, generous CPD arrangements and the opportunity to make a big contribution to supporting a vital sector in society.  We are a non-ministerial government department and by joining us you will enjoy the benefits of being part of the wider Government Legal Service.

For a complete job description and the opportunity to apply for this challenging and worthwhile role, please follow the “Apply” button and input vacancy reference 1459093 the job reference search box.

Closing deadline is: midnight 17 July