In - House Legal Assistant

Here's what you can expect:-

Benefits include:-

• £Competitive salary

• Competitive annual leave and an additional day off on your Birthday

• Option to buy additional annual leave

• Private Medical Care

• Pension

• Life Assurance

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Shopping and estaurants vouchers, rewards, and discounts

• Training and development opportunities-comprehensive skills-based training

• Family friendly polices including enhanced maternity benefits

• Flexible working opportunities

• Employee Assistance programme

• Mental health, physical health, and financial support

• 24/7 Virtual GP service

Our clients are a leading multi-disciplinary contractor, delivering innovative engineering and construction solutions across Rail, Highways, Aviation, Ports, Defence, Energy, Water and Environment Sectors. They are currently on the lookout for a Legal Assistant to join their In-house Legal Team. Here's what you can expect:-

Why work for our Clients?

Our clients operate through five separate, but complementary businesses, working in collaboration and using our specialist skills to deliver an integrated service for their clients. At any one time, their people are working on sites or in offices, for around 250 projects across the UK. Every day they overcome challenges, fulfilling their commitments, no matter what. That's what their business is about, that's how their people find satisfaction in their jobs.

They offer competitive rewards and benefits, recognising the value they place on their employees.

Based in Hoddesdon, our clients provide integrated and ground-breaking solutions for their civil engineering and construction sectors, with specialisms in rail, highways, airports, marine, defence, energy, water, and environmental infrastructure.

Why not join our client's in house Legal Team and play a key role in keeping their UK Group running smoothly and compliantly. Working closely with their Legal Director, you will be supporting a wide range of company secretarial, governance and data protection activities, gaining exposure to high quality legal work in a supportive environment.

About the Role

• Managing diaries, meetings and day to day administrative support for the Legal Director.

• Maintaining accurate statutory records and corporate information across the UK Group.

• Preparing and submitting filings to Companies House, including confirmation statements and director changes.

• Assisting with company incorporations, board minutes and governance documentation.

• Helping oversee compliance frameworks covering anti bribery, modern slavery, fraud and competition law.

• Supporting the Data Protection Officer with GDPR compliance, including handling data subject access requests and impact assessments.

• Acting as a first point of contact for data protection queries from the business.

• Contributing to ad hoc legal and compliance projects.

About the Candidate:-

• You'll have demonstrable experience in a similar role or a company secretarial role, where familiarity and diligence would be desirable.

• You'll have a basic understanding of the Companies Act 2006, and have knowledge of UK data protection legislation.

• Strong attention to detail and excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential to the role.

Fairness, Inclusion and Respect

Our clients believe in pushing boundaries in the pursuit of fairness, inclusion and respect and so their teams can be comfortable that, whatever their background, this organisation is a place where they can be themselves and thrive.

If your past experience doesn't quite match perfectly with every requirement of this job description and you have some of the required fields, we still encourage you to apply as you may be just the right candidate our clients are looking for.

Legals 4 Lawyers will try and respond to all applications within 48 hours. However, we have been experiencing high volumes of applications and if you have not heard from us within this period of time, unfortunately your application will not have been successful. Thank you and good luck.

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