Legal Services Manager - Governance and Regulatory Team and DPO

Job Title: Legal Services Manager - Governance and Regulatory Team and DPO

Rate of Pay: ?30.23

Hours: 37 hours per week

Location: Sandwell Council House, Freeth Street, Oldbury, B69 3DE

Start Date: ASAP

Contract type: Agency

Job Description and Personnel Specification are attached, which also provides more information about the role.

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Legal Services Manager to join our busy Legal Services team. This role involves undertaking and supervising complex legal work relating to all areas of law in Corporate Services, including Information Governance, Prosecutions, Licensing and Business Support.

Key elements of the role:

• oTo manage the Governance and Regulatory services team.
• oTo act as the Council's Data Protection Officer.
• oTo undertake and supervise complex legal work relating to all work covered by the Corporate Services including, but not limited to, Governance, Data Protection/UK GDPR, Freedom of Information/Environmental Information requests, member misconduct issues, the Localism Act 2011, Regulatory work and Committee work.

Essential requirements for the role are:

• oQualified Solicitor/Barrister Authorised to Practise.
• oA minimum of 5 years' post qualification experience.
• oKnowledge and experience of handling matters relating to one or more areas of the team including Governance, FOI, SAR, Data Protection, prosecutions and licensing, with some experience and knowledge of any other areas of law within the team.
• oAt least 12 months experience of managing staff.

This post is Inside IR35. No DBS is required for this role.

Interviews will be taking place Friday 8th November via Teams.

This role is hybrid with attendance at Sandwell Council House, Oldbury 2 days per week, or more if required to meet the needs of the service.

Please can agencies send over a CV and a copy of your Terms and Conditions.

You will also need to include your agency on cost details to each submission. Stated rates must be inclusive of all known costs.

Please note this advert is also out with our Master Vendor.

You will receive further information regarding invoice terms if your candidate is appointed to this role. Invoices must be sent electronically on a weekly basis to templink_1@sandwell.gov.uk along with your workers authorised timesheet supplied by your agency. Payments are then released 14 days from the date of the invoice.

The Council will be using the In-tend e-Tendering System for this Procurement opportunity, please visit https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc to access the Sandwell MBC In-tend Supplier Portal.

From here you will be able to register your company, express an interest in the opportunity, and gain immediate access to the related documents.

To submit your documents, you will be required to opt in.

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Additional information:

The Quotation Document(s) will be made available to suppliers who Express Interest on the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Tendering Portal. To access the portal please click the following link https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sandwellmbc

You will be required to log into an existing account or register a new one. Once logged in, from the top menu bar click on 'Tenders' to list all the current opportunities. Once you have found the relevant opportunity you should click on 'View Details' in order to Express Interest.

Closing date for submission of quotations is Thursday 7th November 2024 at 6pm.

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No