Lawyer
Closing date: 23:30, Sunday 13th April 2025
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Flexible across the North of England, but with a requirement to regularly work from our office in Manchester.
Salary: £46,261 - £56,252 per annum
Transport for the North overview:
Transport for the North was established in 2018 as the first Sub-national Transport Body in England and was formed to transform the transport system for the North of England, providing the strategic infrastructure needed for enhanced economic growth.
As a partnership, we bring together the North’s local transport authorities and business leaders together with delivery partners, like Network Rail and National Highways, and work closely with government. We work with our partners to support and enable delivery of the North’s Strategic Transport Plan ambitions to drive sustainable and inclusive growth.
Our role is to add strategic value by ensuring that funding and strategy decisions about transport in the North are informed by local knowledge and requirements. As a partnership, we have powers devolved from central government to work together to deliver strategic transport priorities.
Our vision is of a thriving North of England, where modern transport connections drive economic growth and support an excellent quality of life.
Role overview:
Do you want to be part of our vision of a thriving North of England, where world class transport supports sustainable economic growth, excellent quality of life and improved opportunities for all?
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Transport for the North for a Lawyer to join our existing team.
You will provide Transport for the North and directorates including the Rail North Partnership with specialist expert legal advice. You will act as a proactive legal specialist lawyer applying expertise to deliver professional legal, democratic, contract, procurement and corporate information management support services to contribute to the achievement of corporate objectives and strategic priorities. You will support the Monitoring Officer in ensuring compliance with all legal duties and responsibilities and act as Transport for the North’s designated Information Officer.
You will join a close-knit, friendly and supportive team, and join an organisation which has a focus on employees' health and wellbeing. Last year, Transport for the North received a prestigious Sunday Times Award of Best Places to Work 2024.
What we’re looking for:
The successful candidate will be proactive, solution-driven, collaborative, and naturally inquisitive. A self-starter as well as being an excellent team player who is hands-on and can turn vision into reality. It is these qualities, combined with a “can do” attitude, that makes the role and successful candidate an ideal partnership.
Closing Date: 23:30, Sunday 13th April 2025
Interview Date: 29th April 2025
In return, as well as a competitive salary, our other benefits are:
1. 28 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays
2. Access to the local government pension scheme
3. Access to various salary sacrifice benefits, including Travel Pass purchase scheme
4. Access to TfN’s Flexi-Time Scheme, allowing accrual of up to 18 additional days leave per year
If you believe you have the skills and experience we’re looking for please apply online, ensuring that in your application you provide evidence in the form of specific examples of how you meet the essential criteria in the role profile.
All candidates will be required to prove their right to work in the UK as part of the recruitment process.
At TfN, we welcome and encourage applications from everyone regardless of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation. We are particularly keen to encourage applications from women, members of ethnic minority groups and people with disabilities who are currently under-represented.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, all applications will be considered on their merit.
As an organisation we always strive to do the right thing and understand that in order to make a difference in our society and workplace, we must be committed to respecting equality and diversity, showing kindness, tackling discrimination and promoting inclusion and have signed the CIHT Diversity and Inclusion Charter Statement to further endorse our commitment. We are also an accredited Living Wage Employer, this means that every employee earns a real Living Wage and are recognised as a Disability Confident employer (stage 2) acting as a disability confident champion within our local and business communities and business networks.
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