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Vacancy Reference: 403919

The OPSS Legal team is a highly regarded team from a mixture of public sector and private practice backgrounds.  The team provides legal advice across all of OPSS’s functions. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated lawyer with strong interpersonal skills who is able to work well within a team. This post reports directly to the Chief Legal Officer.

You will work closely with teams across the OPSS to provide pragmatic, solution focussed and high-quality legal advice. The scope of the role, reflecting the breadth of OPSS’s functions, is broad. We do not expect applicants to have existing expertise in all areas of OPSS’s work but you must be willing to advise on a wide range of matters across OPSS’ regulatory functions. In doing so, you will liaise with both DBT and other government departments’ legal advisors (GLD) as well as other regulators and commercial entities as appropriate.

Key Responsibilities:

You will have responsibility for a stimulating, wide-ranging portfolio of work which includes:

• Providing timely and high-quality legal advice to colleagues on a wide range of issues, both in respect of discrete requests for legal assistance and on larger matters;
• Building and maintaining relationships with enforcement colleagues to ensure effective legal input;
• Providing strategic legal advice when OPSS is considering, or has committed to, taking on new regulatory functions on behalf of other Government departments;
• Understanding policy perspectives and confidently presenting delivery solutions;
• Liaising with a range of partners, building relationships and furthering the achievement of OPSS’s strategic objectives in so doing;
• Advising on data protection and FOI issues;
• Making a contribution to the learning and development of the Legal team, as well as to the OPSS more broadly;
• Supervising more junior members of the team to ensure successful delivery of the team’s outputs.