Job Description
We are looking for someone to join our inhouse 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 within the Green Britain Group and its subsidiaries. This is a very diverse role, working across the Green Britain Group. 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.
Core Responsibilities
Commercial and trading
* Reviewing customer and supplier T&Cs and related documents and reporting your findings, making changes to protect the Group’s interests
* 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
* Supporting the procurement of business-critical IT systems
* Advising our wholesale energy trading team on agreements for the purchase of renewable energy and our business sales team on energy sales and intermediary agreement
Projects
* Reviewing contracts through the project life cycle for sun parks, wind farms and battery storage systems – pre-works and FEED agreements, EPC, and operation and maintenance agreements, as well as power purchase agreements
Litigation
* Identifying, investigating and resolving complex queries and disputes
* Drafting letters of claim
* Helping to compile evidence for court proceedings
* Assisting the debt recovery team with the recovery of debt, preparing claims and managing court proceedings
* Instructing and managing external counsel
Property
* Supporting property aspects of our portfolio of domestic rooftop PV installations
* 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
* Early advice on preparation, negotiation and registration of options and leases of renewable assets
Intellectual Property
* Overseeing the group’s intellectual property portfolio
* Registering trademarks and overseeing renewals
* Collating information for patent applications
Other
* Corporate administration
* Advising on legal and regulatory compliance matters
* Instructing and managing external counsel
* Researching legal matters and reporting your findings
* Developing a general understanding of customer metering and billing processes
Ideally you will have worked in-house previously but that is not essential as long as you have the broad skill set and attitude we need. A good knowledge of the UK renewable industry is an advantage. You will be passionate about wanting to make a difference, about changing the way we live. You are happy picking up queries and matters outside of your immediate comfort zone and you pay attention to detail whilst keeping commercials in mind.
Skill Set Required
* This role will suit a candidate with 1–3 years’ post-qualification experience. We would also be interested in hearing from legal executives or newly qualified solicitors with pre-qualification commercial experience in the energy sector or other regulated businesses.
* You will be a practical lawyer with a strong commercial approach
* Excellent written & verbal communication skills
* Excellent time management with ability to prioritise workloads
* Excellent problem solving ability
* Accuracy, tenacity & integrity.
Advantageous
* In house experience
* Renewable energy experience
* In addition to the skills required some employment or construction law experience
What's in it for you...
* Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
* Volunteering day
* Hybrid working
* Various company discounts (including shops, gym, 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
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use its people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity - the green kind. Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain - by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too - we build windmills, sun parks and green gasmills in Britain. We call this turning 'bills into mills'. Some of our biggest achievements to date include building Britain's first megawatt windmill and the country's first grid-scale sun park, as well as building our first green gasmill, generating 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of - grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built the Electric Highway, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points; we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world; and we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk, where they use the money from their customers' bills to protect and regenerate Britain's lost rainforests.
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.