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JOB TITLE: Temporary Secretary / Typist - Immediate start LOCATION: Central Plymouth HOURLY RATE: 11.44p/h+ HOURS: Full-time Monday to Friday Duration : 2 weeks holiday cover starting immediately THE ROLE: Office Angels are currently working with a well-established legal firm in central Plymouth and seeking a proficient typist to join the team as a temporary legal secretary. This full-time role is to provide holiday cover within a team of legal secretaries. MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES: Accurately typing legal documents, correspondence, and memos Managing and organising files, both physical and electronic Answering phone calls and directing them to the appropriate staff members Scheduling and arranging meetings and appointments Assisting with communications, including drafting and sending emails Maintaining confidentiality and adhering to legal protocols KEY SKILLS: Proficient typing skills with a high degree of accuracy and speed Previous experience as a legal secretary or similar role preferred but not essential Strong organisational and multitasking abilities Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal Ability to work independently and as part of a team Attention to detail and a high level of professionalism BENEFITS: We would love for you to join us! Some of the great perks of temping through Office Angels include Weekly pay Access to Boost - our exclusive platform with discounts on hundreds of retailers, a well-being hub with recipes, an exercise area, and a mindfulness section with blogs & videos Temporary candidate of the month award Temporary candidate lunches/treats Online time-sheets Regular pay reviews A dedicated consultant as an additional layer of support If you feel like you have the relevant skills for this role and would like further information, please submit your CV online or send your CV to directly to (url removed) alternatively contact the team on (phone number removed). Office Angels acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Office Angels UK is an Equal Opportunities Employer. By applying for this role your details will be submitted to Office Angels. Our Candidate Privacy Information Statement explaining how we will use your information is available on our website.

Job Title Legal Secretary Below, you will find a complete breakdown of everything required of potential candidates, as well as how to apply Good luck. Closing Date 29-Sep-2022 Position Full Time Business Entity Gateley Legal Department Residential Development Location Birmingham - United Kingdom Job Type Experienced Hire Description Gateley is a legal and professional services group, with over 580 professional advisers. We support more than 5,700 active clients, ranging from FTSE 100 companies to private individuals, in the UK and beyond. We proudly won 'UK Law Firm of the Year' at The British Legal Awards 2019. We are forward thinking and straight talking, our approach is to find solutions to the problems that our clients face. The Team Our Housebuilding Team specialises in residential development - and nothing else. With over 230 specialists, we have the largest residential development team in the UK offering a complete acquisition to disposal service. The team acts for national and regional housebuilders, promoters and institutional landowners on new residential developments of up to 6,500 new homes. We are proud to have worked on the largest modular development in the UK. Each of our plot sales hubs in the South, the Midlands and the North on average handle approximately 4,000 plots sales per annum. Each Plot Sales Hub comprises four teams who work together to support plot sale transactions: site set up; plot sales; part exchange; and infrastructure. The site set up stage is key to ensuring that plot sales run as smoothly as possible, reducing the length of sales times and avoiding delays. Each site set up team consists of experienced lawyers who understand the process from acquisition through to plot sales. The Role We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support to fee earners and partners across our Residential Development team. You will assist fee earners who act for housebuilders and developers dealing with residential development sites. The team specialise in dealing with land acquisitions, land disposals, strategic land options, promotion agreements, affordable housing and long-term development projects. They are also experienced in dealing with funding arrangements for development site acquisitions. The role will be based at our Birmingham office. The role is predominately office based but can be flexible. Key Skills and Experience The successful candidate will be confident liaising with stakeholders, colleagues and clients, proactively organising and managing diaries and taking the lead on tasks to ensure an exceptional and seamless secretarial support service. In particular we look for the following attributes: Previous legal secretarial experience working within either a residential or commercial property team is essential. Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is essential. Previous experience of high-volume document production. Complete SDLT forms Land Registry forms Operate Searchflow Competent working knowledge of Microsoft Word is highly essential. First class communication skills both written and verbal. Excellent levels of accuracy. Initiative to learn and ability to self-motivate. Experience of working under pressure to tight deadlines with the ability to remain calm. Capability to prioritise and multitask effectively, with good time management and organisational skills. Always demonstrate discretion and the ability to always maintain absolute confidentiality. IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents. Diversity, Inclusion and Well Being Diversity, inclusion and well-being is an important part of Gateley's culture and values. We recruit talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, providing equal opportunities for all to join our team regardless of age, sex, race, disability, sexual orientation, disability, and culture. We create an exciting and rewarding place to work that aims to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals. We offer flexible working patterns to help our staff achieve a good work/ life balance and we encourage candidates seeking flexibility in their next role to apply for any of our vacancies. We are proud to have been recognised by The Law Society as gold standard for our Diversity and Inclusion Charter and to be Stonewall Diversity Champions. The successful candidate will have their own workload, be able to work with minimal supervision, manage their own time and work well under pressure. Additional Information If you are successful in receiving an offer of a role with our company a variety of pre-employment screening checks will be completed. Our screening checks can include but are not limited to your eligibility to work, professional and academic qualifications, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. The screening that takes place will be relevant to your role and will vary from role to role.

Job Title: Assistant Company Secretary Business Unit: Group Commercial, Joint Ventures Salary: Starting from £27,000 - £34,000 Location: Remote working / Hybrid - requirement to travel to London on occasion. Contract Type: Fixed Term 12 months Feeling Insatiably Curious about your next adventure? You might have just found it. As the VMUTM Assistant Company Secretary you will support the Company Secretary in providing full company secretarial and corporate governance support to the VMUTM Board and Board Committees. You will also help support the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), in conjunction with other members of his team, in maintaining high standards of corporate governance across the executive management governance framework. Virgin Money Unit Trust Managers Limited (VMUTM) is a joint venture between Virgin Money Holdings (UK) PLC (Virgin Money) and Aberdeen Asset Management PLC (ASI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Life Aberdeen plc. VMUTM provides investments and pensions propositions combining Virgin Money's brand, scale and retail distribution expertise with ASI's market-leading investment solutions and asset management technology. Here's some tasks you'll be doing; Support the Company Secretary with coordination and administration of the VMUTM Board, Board Committee and Executive-level committee meetings (and as necessary ad-hoc working sessions as agreed with the Board Chair and CEO) Advise on and provide input to the drafting of Board and Board Committee papers and Board and shareholder resolutions (including the circulation and execution thereof) pertaining to corporate governance matters Provide quality assurance on all Board and Board Committee material including on Board and Board Committee MI, maintaining templates and guidance notes as necessary, arranging and conducting training and providing feedback to ensure continuous improvement Provide input to key governance and reporting documents including the Annual Report and Accounts and relevant regulatory reporting Support the Company Secretary on corporate governance projects including providing advice and coordinating the set-up and maintenance of any confidentiality arrangements Respond to enquiries, including from the company's auditor and shareholders, in relation to Board, Board Committee and shareholder approved matters Keep up to date on developments in company law, corporate governance best practice and relevant regulation and make recommendations to the Company Secretary on the action necessary in relation to the company's corporate governance framework To be successful you'll need to bring; You must be a Chartered Secretary (or have substantially completed a Chartered Secretary qualification) or hold a relevant legal qualification. Good technical knowledge of company secretarial practice in a private limited company ideally gained within asset management or wider financial services. A strong team player but also confident working under own initiative and managing own workload. Can demonstrate a flexible and adaptive approach to work and the skills and abilities to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels. Can deal confidently with demanding situations and time critical tasks, deputising for the Company Secretary from time to time Highly organised, able to juggle numerous priorities and keep to deadlines Excellent communication skills Demonstrates an investigative and intuitive mindset to problem solve and find solutions We'd love you to have; Good understanding and practical application of company secretarial practices and corporate governance best practice Good knowledge of the Companies Act and the legal responsibilities of directors and private limited companies in the UK and of corporate governance best practice Knowledge of asset management regulation and broader financial services regulation We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the ' To be successful you'll need to bring' section above, but the rest is just our wish list, so please don't let that put you off applying, we'd love to hear from you! RED HOT Rewards • 38.5 days annual leave for all colleagues (including bank holidays and pro rata if part-time) • Five extra paid well-being days per year • 20 weeks paid, gender neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt • Option to receive up to a 13% pension contribution • Six months sick leave and six months half pay • A digital-first colleague experience • Ability to work anywhere in the UK And the great news is, all these benefits are available to colleagues from day one! Inclusion at Virgin Money Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do here at Virgin Money. It's good for you, it's good for us and it's amazing for our customers. We know that great minds don't think alike, so we rely on your diverse thoughts, feelings, beliefs and backgrounds to be the best we can possibly be. Got any questions about this or need some support with your application? We'd love to hear from you so get in touch with our careers team at . Point to note… At the minute, depending on which team you are joining, lots of us are working from home. This is something that may change over time, and if so, we will come together in one of our hub locations, giving you the chance to meet your new colleagues in person. We will of course, make sure you have the IT equipment to access our systems and to interact digitally with your new team and colleagues, but we thought it best to let you know this in advance, so you can make sure you are set up to work safely and productively. If you have any questions on this let us know! Now the legal bit… If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing 3 years' worth of satisfactory references.

Junior Legal Secretary - Magic Circle Law Firm - Paying up to £27,000 - 12 Month FTC My client, who pride themselves on being a Global Partnership who offer an approachable, collegial and team-based way of working are seeking to recruit TWO Junior Legal Secretaries. Aside from being one of the top five Global Law firms, they aim to be an easy firm to work with who maintain a down to earth approach. The role of the Junior Legal Secretary is to provide a first-class professional support to all departments across the firm. The role manages jobs through a shared mailbox and prioritises as per deadlines and as directed. The role is situated within a Central Services Hub and supports the following areas: Business Services (HR, Marketing, BD, Finance, Best Delivery) Capital Markets Corporate Finance Litigation & Dispute Resolution (L&DR) / Real Estate Tax, Pension & Employment (TPE) The duties include: Booking Meeting Rooms (London and Overseas) Booking Client Entertainment (e.g. restaurants, tickets) Booking travel and taxis Creating Letters and making minor amendments Photocopying/Scanning Printing Events - collating RSVPs, preparing badges, client registration Billing - creating letter, amending narratives, searching for previous invoices Creating folders - indexes and labels Audio Transcription