The Opportunity
Salary: £58,131 to £61,445 per annum
Working Pattern: Full time, 37 hours per week
Location: Based at County Hall, Chichester and hybrid working from home
Interview date: w/c 10 March 2025
Legal Services aims to give the best possible legal and insurance service to the Council. As an organisation we have a simple goal – to deliver the best possible services to the people of West Sussex. We do this through the people who work for us so it’s paramount to us to ensure that our employees are supported and valued. Does this sound like a place you’d like to be a part of? We’re on the lookout for a Senior Lawyer to join us in our ongoing mission to deliver excellence!
As a Senior Lawyer, you will work within the Commercial Team in Legal Services to provide a quality legal service to client groups across the County Council. Key areas include commercial contracts and procurement and other work areas as required by the Senior Lawyer Commercial Team Leader.
Your primary focus will be to provide clear, robust, and balanced advice on commercial contracts, construction contracts and procurement matters within the Commercial Team in Legal Services.
1. Qualified solicitor with at least five years post-qualification experience.
2. You will have demonstrable experience and expertise in commercial contracts, construction contracts and public procurement.
3. You will have a track record of shaping and implementing major projects or managing high profile and complex cases and transactions with no supervision.
4. You will need to be able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment to meet the urgent needs of the client service.
5. You will be part of a team providing commercial and procurement advice to a wide range of client departments across the Council and you will have good IT skills to be able to use the case management system.
6. You will undertake research and provide advice which requires developed interpretation and analysis skills as well as partnership working with both colleagues and clients in order to deliver a solution to wide range of issues.
7. You will be engaged in interesting work within an experienced, supportive team which develops and values its staff. You will need to be able to work flexibly to meet the demands of the team.
For more information on the Key Skills as well as the Qualifications and/or experience required, please refer to the Job Description attached.
Working for us
As well as adding real value to our service users and our communities, as an employer we recognise our employees are central in being able to achieve this. To recognise this we want to help support your development and provide an great place to work ensuring you can fulfil your full potential, have access to a range of benefits including:
8. an excellent
9. generous holiday entitlement of 30 days (plus opportunity to buy additional leave)
10. a range of flexible working options, depending on your job role
11. maternity, paternity, dependency and adoption leave
12. volunteering opportunities
13. training and development opportunities, including coaching and mentoring
14. a range of discounts giving our staff access to hundreds of offers; groceries, travel, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities, high street retailers and the opportunity to save over £1,000 a year through our West Sussex Choices benefits platform (see our Staff discounts page if you are a business looking to offer a discount)
15. health and wellbeing benefits including access to our Employee Assistance Programme, Mental Health First Aiders and Voluntary Health Cash Plans