Deputy Secretary & General Legal Counsel
University of Leicester - Professional Services Divisions
| Location: | Leicester, Hybrid |
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| Salary: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full Time |
| Contract Type: | Permanent |
| Placed On: | 25th June 2024 |
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| Closes: | 14th July 2024 |
| Job Ref: | 10138 |
Hours per week: 37.5
Advert closes midnight on: 14th Jul 2024
About the role
The University of Leicester is seeking an exceptional individual for a newly created role as Deputy Secretary and General Legal Counsel. This critical role involves providing strategic legal guidance and leadership across a range of core professional services, ensuring our institution continues to thrive and excel in a complex and evolving regulatory landscape.
As Deputy Secretary and General Legal Counsel, you will lead and manage a range of the University’s professional services corporate functions, including governance services, legal services, information assurance services, and records management. You will be accountable as the University’s Senior Information Risk Owner (SIRO) for its work with the NHS.
As General Legal Counsel, you will provide strategic legal advice to the University Council and Executive Board as required. In your role as Deputy Secretary, you will be responsible for ensuring effectiveness in the governance structure and compliance with all external statutory and legal obligations, including those mandated by the Office for Students.
Additionally, you will deputise for the Registrar and Secretary across all matters of governance and legal management as appropriate.
As our ideal candidate, you will be a professionally qualified legal practitioner with significant experience in the higher education sector or similar fields such as the consumer service sector or public sector. You will have a proven track record in developing and providing strategic legal advice to governing bodies and/or senior executives.
Your knowledge of the higher education regulatory environment in the UK is comprehensive, or you possess the ability and willingness to learn swiftly. Additionally, you will have a history of successfully leading multiple teams across complex subject matters and have demonstrated experience in creating, monitoring, developing and implementing organisation-wide strategies, plans, policies, and codes-of-practice.
You will be adept at reviewing processes and practices to ensure they remain fit-for-purpose on a continuous basis. Knowledge of higher education regulatory environments internationally, or the ability and willingness to learn, would be advantageous.
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