Contract Legal Specialist

The Wildlife Trusts

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a newly created role where you will lead on all contractual legal matters across The Wildlife Trusts Federation. You will act as the first point of contact, providing high-quality legal advice for contract-related queries. Reporting to our Legal Director, you will build successful working relationships across the organisation, supporting colleagues to identify, manage, and mitigate legal risk while enabling the Charity’s work to thrive. You will play a key role in promoting legal compliance, contributing to the development of policies and guidance, and staying up to date with legislative changes and relevant case law. While your focus will be on contract law, you will also bring a broad awareness of related areas such as charity and employment law. Using your legal expertise and excellent communication skills, you will design, organise, and deliver training to colleagues, embedding best practice, building capacity and confidence, improving consistency, and ensuring value for money on contracting activities. You will be organised, adaptable, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities in an ever-changing environment. As a pragmatic and commercially astute professional, you will balance risk awareness with opportunity, using your initiative to take on new challenges and quickly develop knowledge in unfamiliar areas to support the wider work of the legal team. While there is currently no line management responsibility, our ambition is to grow the legal function over time, creating future opportunities to gain line management experience and play a part in shaping the team.

Requirements

• Experienced and self-motivated contracts lawyer.
• Commercial and legal expertise with real purpose.
• Broad awareness of related areas such as charity and employment law.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Organised, adaptable, and comfortable juggling multiple priorities in an ever-changing environment.
• Pragmatic and commercially astute professional.
• Ability to balance risk awareness with opportunity.
• Initiative to take on new challenges and quickly develop knowledge in unfamiliar areas.

Nice To Haves

• Future opportunities to gain line management experience and play a part in shaping the team.

Responsibilities

• Lead on all contractual legal matters across The Wildlife Trusts Federation.
• Act as the first point of contact for contract-related queries.
• Provide high-quality legal advice for contract-related queries.
• Build successful working relationships across the organisation.
• Support colleagues to identify, manage, and mitigate legal risk.
• Promote legal compliance.
• Contribute to the development of policies and guidance.
• Stay up to date with legislative changes and relevant case law.
• Design, organise, and deliver training to colleagues on contract law.
• Embed best practice, build capacity and confidence, improve consistency, and ensure value for money on contracting activities.

Benefits

• Permanent, Full Time (35 hours per week) (0.8 FTE could be considered).
• Predominantly home-based with regular travel to locations across the UK.
• Office facilities are available at our Newark office (Tuesdays to Thursdays) for those within easy travelling distance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed