Legal – Business Improvement Adviser
Job Description
Job title: Legal – Business Improvement Adviser
Company: Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park
Job description: Are you looking for an exciting and rewarding opportunity to work in one of the most beautiful and scenic landscapes in the world?
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park covers over 720 square miles of Scotland’s finest countryside which welcomes over 4 million visitors each year. From the stunning sea lochs and rugged coastline through the majestic glens and breath-taking loch, Scotland’s first National Park truly is a magical place to live or visit and an incredible place to work.
Job Title: Legal – Business Improvement Adviser
Salary: £33,622 – £40,473 (Band D) per annum – pro rata
Working Hours: 21 hours per week (3 days per week)
Contract: Fixed Term – immediate start until 31 July 2024
Location: Flexible – largely home-working, but some meetings may be required at our Headquarters in Balloch.
The role:
Our Legal Services team plays a pivotal role in providing legal advice, training and representation to all areas of the organisation, at a strategic and operational level. We identify and interpret legal requirements to maximise compliance and minimise risk. We advise on a wide range of law and draft legal documentation such as contracts and leases.
This is a rare opportunity for a Business Improvement Adviser to join a small, dedicated team working with colleagues across the organisation, to provide additional resource within the organisation’s busy Governance and Performance Service, which includes the Legal, Finance, Procurement, Information and Governance Teams. This role will involve creating and embedding processes to create efficiencies and ensure statutory compliance.
This role will suit candidates with experience of creating, implementing and embedding internal processes to ensure statutory compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Review relevant legislation and create / update policies, procedures and guidance notes to ensure statutory compliance and that meet internal stakeholder requirements.
- Identify, develop and embed new policies, procedures and guidance notes to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the Legal Services Team, and the wider Governance and Performance Service e.g. process for third party funding.
- Identify potential uses of technology to enhance the service delivered by the Legal Services Team and deliver improvements, in relation to the instruction and delivery of advice.
- Review processes for using template legal agreements, to ensure they are as user friendly and streamlined as possible. Where possible, develop workflow / digital solutions, to ensure the processes are as user friendly as possible.
- Create and implement a legal training programme, to engage all levels of staff within the Authority on legal issues, processes and risk mitigation.
- Lead on the development and implementation of various legal clinics, for use by internal stakeholders and also community organisations.
- Assist the Legal Manager and other members of the in-house legal team with processing instructions and ensuring service levels are met.
- Undertake any other duties appropriate to the grade as required.
Who we are looking for:
Your skills, abilities and experience should include:
- Proven experience of creating, implementing and embedding internal processes for legal and governance work.
- Experience of interpreting legislation and legal advice on a broad range of topics and providing legal information in a practical, user-friendly format.
- Ability to understand complicated technical information to translate this to meet the information needs of a variety of audiences.
- Excellent analytical and communication (written and oral) skills.
- Degree or equivalent experience in a related discipline e.g. law LLB, project management, business management etc.
Ideally, but not essential, you’ll also have:
- Experience of auditing processes to identify legal risks and improvements.
- Experience of developing internal processes to promote legal compliance.
- Specialist knowledge of legal issues relevant to public authorities such as subsidy control, fair work first etc.
- Experience of designing and implementing work-flowed processes, especially in a legal and governance setting.
- Experience as a Qualified Solicitor.
- Experience as a Business Manager.
How to apply:
If you are interested in this role, complete and submit your application by 2nd February @ 9am.
- Access our application on our website
- Interviews will be virtual
- Interview dates are set for: W/C 19th February
Who we are and our values:
We offer flexible and remote working, with a generous pension scheme and annual leave allowance. Staff have access to wellbeing services and there is a strong focus on wellbeing throughout the organisation.
Being part of Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority means being passionate about what you do, working hard to inspire and lead the way for others. We care about each other and are accessible and friendly treating each other with respect and understanding, we think about our planet with each decision we make. Together, we are the difference.
Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority are proud to celebrate difference. Diversity of experience is vital in our success we want our business to be representative to the communities we work alongside. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively encourage applicants from a wide range of individuals, irrespective of age, disability, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, gender identity and expression.
Expected salary: £33622 – 40473 per year
Location: Balloch, West Dunbartonshire
