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Vacancy Details

Assistant legal counsel

Employer:
Breast Cancer Now
Salary:
£40,000 to £43,000 per annum
Location:
London
Contract:
Permanent
Working Pattern:
Full Time
Hours:
35 hours per week.
DBS Check:
No
Closing Date:
10/02/2025 at 09:00
Reference:
CORP/25/303116
Breast Cancer Now

About us

We’re Breast Cancer Now, the research and support charity. We’re the place to turn to for anything and everything to do with breast cancer. However you’re experiencing breast cancer, we’re here. 

The brightest minds in breast cancer research are here. Making life-saving research happen in labs across the UK and Ireland. Support services, trustworthy breast cancer information and specialist nurses are here. Ready to support you whenever you need it. Dedicated campaigners are here. Fighting for the best possible treatment, services and care for anyone affected by breast cancer.  

About the role

We are looking for an assistant legal counsel to join our legal compliance and governance team. Your work will include negotiating and drafting commercial contracts, and advice on data protection, fundraising and charity law. We can provide some support and training if any of these compliance areas are new to you. You should be able to work co-operatively as part of our team and with our internal stakeholders.

About you

You’ll be a qualified lawyer with at least 2 years PQE in commercial contract law. With  good quality drafting skills and good communication skills, you’ll  be able to manage a busy workload in a timely fashion and give pragmatic advice allowing you to resolve legals issues, where appropriate, effectively and efficiently. Experience of working in-house in a charity would be an advantage.

Job description and benefits

Please download the job description and our attractive benefits package.  

Primary location of role and hybrid working

This role is primarily based in our London office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 2 days per week at home.   

When applying

We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria. If you’ve any immediate questions please email Recruitment@breastcancernow.org

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who we support.

Closing date

Monday 10 February 2025 at 09:00am

We reserve the right to close this advert early subject to volume of applicants. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Interview date

Week commencing Monday 17 February 2025

Further information on this vacancy

This vacancy is now closed