Paralegal (Maternity Cover)

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Legal Services and Compliance
Location:  Joseph Priestley Building
Salary: 

£33,656 to £36,584
per annum
Fixed Term
Posted On:  Thursday 13 October 2022
Closing Date:  Friday 28 October 2022
Reference:  102022-620

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Legal Services team as a Paralegal (Maternity Cover) to provide high quality, efficient and effective administrative support.

You will join a small, but powerful team when it comes to providing advice across the organisation.

Reporting directly to the Head of Legal Services, you will be involved in the administration of case management systems, providing services and support to the Legal Team and colleagues across the University to provide, advice, training and to collate and be responsible for the seamless delivery of responses to all external requests.

Through your proactive nature you will:

• Provide paralegal assistance to the legal services team.
• Undertake paralegal research to support the activities of the Legal Services.
• Manage a caseload of matters allocated to you by the Legal team.
• Provide support and assistance as directed by the Head of Legal with regards to FOI/DSAR matters.
• Provide excellent services to the Legal Services team, wider team, and colleagues across the institution.
• Provide support for the development and maintenance of corporate information and governance records.

Skills and Experience:

• You will have excellent organisational skills and to be able to set your own direction and outcomes with minimal supervision.
• You will also have excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport at all levels in the organisation and the ability to think logically and clearly, work to tight deadlines and to be flexible in your approach to work.
• You should be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and the ability to be influential with senior stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation.
• A desire to offer excellent customer service.
• Excellent IT skills including advanced knowledge of web-based solution, word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation software packages, preferably Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Knowledge of the Data Protection Act 1998 and or the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is helpful.
• Experience of providing high quality customer service in a complex environment.
• Understanding of how to maintain governance or other complex records accurately.
• Willingness to working successfully as part of a team.
• Ability to communicate clearly and in appropriate language with third parties, students, and colleagues both orally and in writing.
• Ability to understand and explain complex regulations to third parties, students, and colleagues.
• Ability to manage own time and workload.
• Ability to work to deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to support, guide and inform as necessary.

This role will be offered on a hybrid working basis for which the current requirement for a full-time employee is 3 days per week on site.

Birmingham City University has the drive and ambition to be a leading seat of teaching and research excellence. We are passionate about providing our learners with a transformational journey, enabled by an exceptional and supportive academic community.

With around 26,900 students from 100 countries, Birmingham City University is a large and diverse learning community. We put students at the heart of everything we do, giving them the best opportunities for future success. The University has an enviable reputation for providing quality, student-focused education in a professional and friendly environment. Our superb courses, state-of-the-art facilities, first-rate academics, and focus on practical skills and professional relevance all support our graduates’ future employability.

Our staff and student community is defined by our core values, which outline who we are as a University and how we will work with each other. Our core values are Excellence, People focused, Partnership working and Fairness and integrity.

In return we offer a generous pension and annual leave provision. We also operate a hybrid working model that allows staff to combine on-site and remote working where appropriate, dependent on work duties. We also provide access to excellent facilities on campus, including supportive family friendly policies.

Further details:

BCU Values underpin how we work in achieving the ambitions set out in our Strategy and Priorities, and are the principles that unite the way we work together and for our students.

The University is committed to internationalism and diversity and welcomes applications from all countries, faiths and backgrounds.

It is each individual successful applicants responsibility to ensure that they have permission to work in the UK. Some applicants may require sponsorship from the University and a visa from UKVI to take up the role if successful. More information on this can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa

Some roles are not capable of sponsorship because they do not meet the UKVI criteria relating to skill and salary level. If you are unsure as to whether you would require sponsorship if successful, or whether the role is capable of sponsorship, please contact us: [email protected]

Please note on occasions where we receive a large number of applications, we may close the advert ahead of the publicised closing date. If this does happen, we will contact all candidates via email who have started but not yet completed their application, giving 48 hours’ notice.  We would therefore advise that you submit your completed application as soon as possible.

At Birmingham City University we are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.  All staff are expected to understand and enact the University’s commitment to ensuring equality, diversity and inclusion in our employment practice and in all that we do . This commitment is enshrined in our Core Values and is detailed in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Employment Policy. The University values and celebrates the diversity of our staff and students; we welcome people from the many  different backgrounds and life experiences that reflect the students and the citizens we serve.  We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and actively encourage unique contributions, in particular from under-represented groups in respect of age, disability, sex, gender or gender identity, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, sexual orientation or transgender status

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