Contracts and Legal Manager
Employer: RNID
Location: Remote, UK. We come together in person three times a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events for sharing skills and ideas, hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues.
Working hours: 17.5hrs per week
Salary: £35,000-£45,000 per annum
Closing date: Wed 9 July at 9am
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Contracts and Legal Manager
Location: Remote, UK.
Salary: £35,000-£45,000 per annum
Hours: 17.5hrs per week
Contract type: Permanent
Application deadline: Wed 9 July at 9am
Interview Dates: Tues 15 July and Thurs 17 July
About RNID
We are RNID: the national charity supporting the 18 million people in the UK who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus. Together, we will end the discrimination faced by our communities, help people hear better now and fund world-class research to restore hearing and silence tinnitus. We work with our communities and partners across industry, government, charity, education and more to change life for the better.
RNID has a proud history and big ambitions. We’re focused on making the greatest impact possible across the whole of the UK. We champion the latest technology and the opportunities it brings. We also know the value of a friendly face in local communities to support people where they need it most.
Join our team
At RNID we have big, ambitious plans to make real impact for our communities. To do that, we need the right people in our team.
We are a remote working organisation, with colleagues based across the UK in locations from Cornwall to the Scottish Highlands and everywhere in between. We come together in person twice a year for our Staff Summits, inspirational events for sharing skills and ideas, hearing from external speakers and spending quality time with colleagues. Working in this way, we bring together the best of digital and in-person working in a modern, progressive organisation. We know our colleagues have responsibilities and interests outside work and we want to support that, which is why we offer a sector-leading flexible working policy to all our staff from day one.
Our values are at the heart of how we work and communicate with each other, and the outside world. We strive to be an organisation that is connected, insightful, curious and passionate in everything we do.
Does that sound like a good fit? If so, we can’t wait to hear from you…
The Contracts and Legal Manager for our Governance Team will focus and lead on:
1. Providing expertise in contract management and contractual terms to supporting the expansion of our corporate partnerships and consultancy work.
2. Developing a contract management system that is proportionate to our size and risks.
3. Acting as the key point of contact for all legal matters, supporting teams to understand contractual terms and risks, whilst acting as the key point of contact with our legal advisors and managing our retainer.
What you will be doing
You will:
1. Ensure that we stay on top of rolling contracts and renewals, prompting teams to make sure that they do not lose sight of these.
2. Review and improve our existing processes for managing and documenting contracts and renewals and develop resources for contract owners to assist them with contract management.
3. Be a key contact for staff across the matrix signing contracts with third party suppliers and corporate partners, supporting with the review of contracts, identifying any areas of risk.
4. Explain legal terms to staff without legal training so they understand the risks associated with contract terms, developing a standard set of terms that are acceptable.
5. Provide general legal input and advice where required, seeking specialist legal advice where necessary.
You
You will have relevant demonstratable experience of understanding and applying contractual terms and supporting contractual negotiations.
You will be pragmatic in your approach ensuring that processes are proportionate to our size and to the risks.
You will have experience working with a variety of stakeholders, taking a proportionate approach to responding to risks associated with contracts.
You will be proactive in keeping up to date with legal changes and developments.
You will be confident in managing your own workload and prioritising according to risk and organisational priority.
You will have experience working with solicitors or seeking legal advice.
You are confident, purpose driven and have a knowledge or willingness to learn about deaf culture.
You will be able to travel to our residential Staff Summits up to three times per year and attend other ad hoc face to face meetings where required.
Desirable qualifications
· A degree in relevant area, e.g. law or business administration
· A qualification from the Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply
What we can offer you
·Your benefits include:
28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays
Plus 2 wellbeing days for extra flexibility
Sickness benefit entitlement from day 1
Fully remote working with no core hours
£26 remote working allowance every month
In person whole staff conferences throughout the year
Pension scheme with 4% employer contribution
Employee assistance programme that provides counselling sessions
Additional benefits for maternity, paternity and adoption
Hospital Saturday Fund health benefit
Access to an event ticketing platform
Our commitment to diversity
We are committed to supporting our staff including making reasonable adjustments. If you require support to apply for or fulfil the requirements of this role, please inform us so we can discuss the options with you.
Disability Confident Disability Confident is a government scheme designed to encourage employers to recruit and retain disabled people and those with health conditions. It has replaced the previous Two Ticks Positive About Disabled People scheme that you may have heard of.
RNID is proud to be a member of Disability Confident and as a Disability Confident Leader we recognise the value disabled people bring to RNID. We offer interviews to any candidate that tells us they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the role.
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