Job Description
Job Title Construction Lead Legal Secretary / PA
Closing Date 22-Jan-2023
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Construction
Location Manchester - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
The Team
Our nationally recognised construction team advises on all kinds of construction projects for contractors, developers and housebuilders and have experience in dealing with international construction projects.
Our clients include many of the major housebuilders, local authorities, universities, major developers, landowners and employers not directly involved in construction. We also act for a wide range of those delivering construction projects including major national and regional contractors, subcontractors and professional consultants.
We are proud that our partners are noted in the Legal 500 UK for their broad expertise within construction.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support as a personal assistant to the Construction Unit Head and assist Fee Earners, Partners and the wider national team. You will act as a lead legal secretary to coordinate other secretaries within the team nationally to ensure that tasks and capacity levels are evenly spread.
You will join our established and leading Construction team who act on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters. In addition, you may assist in providing support on various construction law related projects.
The role will be based at the Manchester office. A regular office presence will be required but provides flexibility for an agile home working arrangement.
The Person
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with multiple stakeholders 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 within a Construction team would be advantageous.
Previous experience co-ordinating work flow and being a mentor to other secretaries would be very helpful
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is 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 maintain absolute confidentiality at all times.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
The Benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around, our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.
In our culture if the business does well, then our people do too. The Gateley Sharesave Scheme is a key part of delivering our incentivisation strategy and is consistent with the elements of the Gateley Team Spirit. We have therefore implemented a Sharesave Scheme which is open to all employees of Gateley so that everyone in the Gateley team has the opportunity to acquire shares through the scheme to participate in the future financial success of the business
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
Gateley was the first commercial law firm in the UK to list on the London Stock Exchange in 2015. Since listing we have diversified and differentiated our offering creating four distinct platforms which meet the need of our clients. We offer a range of professional services to clients within our Business Services, Corporate, People, and Property platforms. We have proudly completed several acquisitions of legal and professional services businesses which complement our Platforms - meaning our acquisition timeline is currently at 12 incredible businesses since 2015!
In the last 30 years we have grown consistently and with an unbroken record of increased profit delivery year on year. With 16 offices across the UK, Northern Ireland and Dubai - we have fast become a great place to work and develop your career.
Gateley are proud to be named 'Professional Services Firm of the Year' at the 2021 Birmingham Business Post Awards.
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.
Closing Date 22-Jan-2023
Position Full Time
Business Entity Gateley Legal
Department Construction
Location Manchester - United Kingdom
Job Type Experienced Hire
Description
The Team
Our nationally recognised construction team advises on all kinds of construction projects for contractors, developers and housebuilders and have experience in dealing with international construction projects.
Our clients include many of the major housebuilders, local authorities, universities, major developers, landowners and employers not directly involved in construction. We also act for a wide range of those delivering construction projects including major national and regional contractors, subcontractors and professional consultants.
We are proud that our partners are noted in the Legal 500 UK for their broad expertise within construction.
The Role
We are looking to recruit a proactive Legal Secretary who can provide support as a personal assistant to the Construction Unit Head and assist Fee Earners, Partners and the wider national team. You will act as a lead legal secretary to coordinate other secretaries within the team nationally to ensure that tasks and capacity levels are evenly spread.
You will join our established and leading Construction team who act on a variety of contentious and non-contentious matters. In addition, you may assist in providing support on various construction law related projects.
The role will be based at the Manchester office. A regular office presence will be required but provides flexibility for an agile home working arrangement.
The Person
The successful candidate will be confident liaising with multiple stakeholders 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 within a Construction team would be advantageous.
Previous experience co-ordinating work flow and being a mentor to other secretaries would be very helpful
Ability to type, draft and produce documents efficiently, and with ease is 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 maintain absolute confidentiality at all times.
IT skills - Microsoft word, typing, case management use, formatting and editing documents.
The Benefits
With support, coaching and feedback from some of the most engaging colleagues around, our great development and progression opportunities will reward your commitment and loyalty. We offer a competitive remuneration package where you'll be rewarded for your individual performance with an opportunity to receive an annual bonus.
In our culture if the business does well, then our people do too. The Gateley Sharesave Scheme is a key part of delivering our incentivisation strategy and is consistent with the elements of the Gateley Team Spirit. We have therefore implemented a Sharesave Scheme which is open to all employees of Gateley so that everyone in the Gateley team has the opportunity to acquire shares through the scheme to participate in the future financial success of the business
In addition, we have a wide range of learning and development opportunities via our Learn platform to develop new skills and progress your career. Our My Flex comprehensive rewards package includes options covering annual leave (and the benefit of purchasing extra days), cycle to work, critical illness benefit, employee assistance programme, group personal pension, health care, season ticket loan and many more benefits (grade dependent). Finally, with Perks At Work/Home you can select a host of retail benefits that suit your needs alongside a Community Online Academy, free courses for all from fitness to coding to languages to hip hop dance.
We are Gateley
Gateley was the first commercial law firm in the UK to list on the London Stock Exchange in 2015. Since listing we have diversified and differentiated our offering creating four distinct platforms which meet the need of our clients. We offer a range of professional services to clients within our Business Services, Corporate, People, and Property platforms. We have proudly completed several acquisitions of legal and professional services businesses which complement our Platforms - meaning our acquisition timeline is currently at 12 incredible businesses since 2015!
In the last 30 years we have grown consistently and with an unbroken record of increased profit delivery year on year. With 16 offices across the UK, Northern Ireland and Dubai - we have fast become a great place to work and develop your career.
Gateley are proud to be named 'Professional Services Firm of the Year' at the 2021 Birmingham Business Post Awards.
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.
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