Job Description

Key responsibilities:

Charitable partnerships (Impact on Urban Health)

* Structure, assist colleagues with drafting and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of partnerships and projects, including commercial contracts, grants, IP licenses, novel investment models, revenue-sharing arrangements and data agreements

* Act as a thought partner with the team to advise on the structuring, legal risks and strategic implications of partnerships and future opportunities

* Maintain and appropriately file correspondence and documentation relating to commercial contracts.

Procedure and policy efficiencies

* Draft, maintain and update our internal guidelines, policies and standard-form documents

Tailored partnerships

* Consider legal considerations, and appropriate processes, for collaborating with certain partners (e.g., regulatory, private gain, data protection, policy), including advising on due diligence procedures and tailoring our standard form templates

* Work with cross-functional stakeholders on longer-term projects to change our partnership models to cede power to the communities we work with, whilst balancing this against our charity law obligations

Cross-functional work

* Work with cross-functional stakeholders, including communications, policy and influencing, evaluation and the Executive Team to advise on cross-team collaboration, opportunities, issues and risks relating to our charitable partnerships

* Support teams such as property, endowment and HR on their legal needs, including drafting, negotiating and agreeing documents

Governance and legal

* Support the Foundation’s Legal Counsel & Company Secretary in advising colleagues on legal and governance matters

* Undertaking research into specific legal issues or matters of best practice and ability to identify need for, organise and run training sessions on key legal and compliance issues to Foundation staff

Person Specification

Skills, abilities, and attributes:

* Self-starter who is adaptable, works with integrity, and exhibits the Foundation’s enterprising, collaborative, inclusive and delivery-minded cultural and behavioural values

* Excellent verbal and written communication skills (detail oriented)

* Good interpersonal skills and able to effectively liaise with both internal and external communities, plus problem solving skills, able to use initiative and actively seeks pragmatic solutions

* Good planning and organisational skills, able to work to multiple prioritised tasks, targets and deadlines, with careful attention to detail.

* Team player, with an ability to support effective working relationships and committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do.

Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:

Essential

* Experience in drafting and reviewing commercial contracts and legal research skills.

* Preparation of guidance notes and training materials.

* Experience using the Microsoft Office suite.

* Sound knowledge of the law of England and Wales, plus familiarity with commercial contracts and contract law.

Desirable

* Sound working knowledge of intellectual property and data protection matters as well as familiarity with the charity sector and charity law. Some familiarity with basic financial and grants related terms and concepts.

Benefits

* Up to 12% employer pension contributions

* £800 annual personal development budget and annual health and wellbeing personal allowance of £200

* Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.

* Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.

* Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.

* Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.

* Shower facilities and bike lock area.

* Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)

* Subsidies for glassesjand Employee Assistance Programme