Legal Counsel

Description

As a valued member of the team, you will be supporting the Group Environmental Policy and its associated sustainability objectives and targets.

• Drafting and reviewing a wide range of contracts including consultancy arrangements, contracts for products and services, and partnership/endorsement contracts, and negotiating these with counterparties
• Identifying, investigating and resolving complex queries and disputes
• Advising on football sponsorship and endorsement agreements
• Advising on legal and regulatory compliance matters
• Supporting the planning and development team with management of the group’s property portfolio, including our renewable assets and developments as well as the company estate
• Reviewing and negotiating contracts through the project life cycle for sun parks, wind farms and battery storage systems
• Developing Ecotricity’s in house employment law and practice know-how.
• Drafting letters of claim
• Instructing and managing external counsel
• Supporting and working closely with your colleagues in the Legal and Data Protection teams
• Reviewing customer and supplier T&Cs and related documents, advising business teams on risk and making changes to protect the Group’s interests
• Assisting the debt recovery team with the recovery of debt, preparing claims and managing court proceedings
• Managing Employment Tribunal processes in person where appropriate or instructing and managing external counsel
• Researching legal matters and reporting your findings
• Supporting procurement processes
• Supporting the development of our employment policies and compensation and benefits packages
• Working closely with our People team and business team managers on both non-contentious and contentious employment matters
• Helping to compile evidence for court proceedings

Requirements

We are looking for someone to join our in house Legal Team as Legal Counsel with a broad range of responsibilities. We are a small, busy, friendly team managing all of the legal and corporate affairs at Ecotricity. We are particularly interested in candidates with experience in employment law (including contentious and non-contentious employment) or commercial litigation, but your workload won’t be restricted to those areas, this is a very diverse role, working in Ecotricity. Your responsibilities will vary depending on your experience and career development aim. If you are driven and efficient self-starter who enjoys a wide variety of legal work, often delivered to a tight deadline. Used to managing a busy case load and multiple clients whilst keeping the wider aim in mind. We would love to hear from you.

This role requires an office presence 4 days per week based at head office in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

• In house experience
• In addition to the skills required some employment or construction law experience
• Accuracy, tenacity, diplomacy & integrity.
• This role will suit a candidate with 3-4 years’ post-qualification experience, however, as an equal opportunities employer, we would welcome applications from appropriately experienced legal executives or paralegals as well as from more recently qualified solicitors with pre-qualification commercial experience in the energy sector or other regulated businesses.
• Excellent written & verbal communication and time management skills
• Renewable energy experience

Benefits

• Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
• Hybrid Working
• Volunteering Day
• Various company discounts (including shops, gyms, days out and events)
• Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
• Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance