Service Care Solutions is working alongside a growing local authority based in Northamptonshire, which needs an experienced Assistant Director of Legal and Monitoring Officer to spearhead their team.
ROLE: Assistant Director of Legal and Monitoring Officer
RATE: £490 to £630 per day umbrella – negotiable
LOCATION: Northamptonshire - Attendance at Council meetings every 2 months, but flexible/remote other than that
CONTRACT: 3 month ongoing
Key Responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Legal role:
* Providing high quality legal advice to the Council, Chief Officers and Elected Members.
* Provide effective decision making, meet statutory requirements and ensure good general practice.
* Leading the effective planning, organisation, delivery and continuous improvement and efficiency of all related services, resources and allocated budgets, through service delivery, efficiency and improvement plans as required.
Key Requirements:
* Monitoring Officer experience is essential. Unitary experience as have Children’s Services within remit – no District only experience.
* Experience of providing high quality legal advice to the Council, Chief Officers and Elected Members.
* Experience of overseeing a wide range of sensitive and high-profile cases including new initiatives, policy development, major projects, constitutional issues, standards, ethics, corporate governance, corporate legal issues and other complex administrative areas of public law.
Benefits:
* Weekly pay.
* Hybrid working.
* Flexible hours.
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