Senior Associate/Legal Director - Charities

• Handle your own caseload and support the lead partner on larger projects
• Advising charity trustees on their duties and responsibilities
• Advising on charity start-ups and registrations
• Advise charities on all types of legal structure
• Advising on constitutional reviews
• Advising on all types of governance issues
• Advising on strategic issues for charities
• Advising on transactions including mergers between charities
• Advising on grant agreements and fundraising matters
• Advising on endowments and restricted funds
• Advising on the serious incident reporting regime
• Supporting other specialists on charity related issues
• Advising on issues related to non-primary purpose trading and the use of trading subsidiaries
• Assisting with all business development activities and tender preparation

• Excellent relationship and client handling skills
• Able to deal confidently and professionally with clients on day to day issues
• Able to demonstrate a reasonable level of self-sufficiency, combined with an awareness of the boundaries of own competence/authority
• Strong technical skills and an ability to understand and work through complex issues
• Team oriented and collegiate with experience of and a willingness to mentor, coach and supervise less experienced members of the team
• Exposure to (and success within) business development activities
• Confident communicator with an ability to develop relationships, undertake client marketing
• In-House Charity experience can be considered

In-House Charity experience can be considered

Flexible working with our Flex Forward scheme