Careers
Ref: 18e5c4fad312466591f613e0ede6462cWe are looking for someone with experience managing the administration of a legal department.
This is an opportunity for you to join the legal operations team which sits within the Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA) department.
The Legal and Business Affairs (L&BA) department provides legal support and ensures regulatory compliance against business delivery in 170 countries.
We actively seek new team members who share our passion and our values: collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible.
Why would you join us?
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success.
We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for.
We are particularly focused on inclusion and improving diversity at all levels in the organisation, including for this role. We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches leads to innovation and creates an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued.
What can we offer you?
The role will involve supporting the General Counsel from an administrative perspective whilst also managing departmental initiatives.
Working with Cambridge will offer you stability. We show our care for our people by supporting them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leave.
What will you do in this role?
In this role, you will report to the Director of Legal Operations and provide essential support to the General Counsel, whilst also improving key processes within the wider L&BA department.
The overall purpose of the role is to support the smooth and efficient operation of the Legal and Business Affairs department.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Understanding the business strategy and priorities of the General Counsel.
* Acting as the process owner for standard/central L&BA administrative processes.
* Overall responsibility for managing the diary of the General Counsel.
* Ownership of communications within L&BA and co-ordination with the wider corporate Internal Communications team.
* Management of L&BA's business facing Sharepoint site.
* Supporting the implementation and day to day running of legal systems within L&BA.
* Ownership of departmental reporting and a best practice approach to metrics.
* Responsibility for the starters and leavers process within L&BA including improvements to existing processes.
* Organising and co-ordinating a departmental training plan.
* Managing the procure to pay and expenses process as it relates to the General Counsel.
* Organising departmental meetings, travel and events.
* Monitoring incoming communications on behalf of the General Counsel.
* Managing departmental subscriptions including Solicitors Regulation Authority renewals.
* Acting as the on-site point of contact for external visitors to L&BA.
We don't mind whether you have gained your experience in-house or in law firm. While we may give an indication of desired experience in relevant roles as a guide, we're also keen to hear about different experience which would make you a strong addition to our team. You're curious to learn (we are an education and research publishing organisation after all), and a perfect mix of self-starter and team player. Along with sound legal administration skills, you will communicate effectively, enabling delivery of departmental objectives. You will be able to working collaboratively with others in the team and the wider organisation. Your success will be underpinned by your ability to prioritise, with a practical and pragmatic approach to the delivery of tasks and projects.
This is an opportunity for you to join the legal operations team which sits within the Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA) department.
The Legal and Business Affairs (L&BA) department provides legal support and ensures regulatory compliance against business delivery in 170 countries.
We actively seek new team members who share our passion and our values: collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible.
Why would you join us?
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success.
We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for.
We are particularly focused on inclusion and improving diversity at all levels in the organisation, including for this role. We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches leads to innovation and creates an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued.
What can we offer you?
The role will involve supporting the General Counsel from an administrative perspective whilst also managing departmental initiatives.
Working with Cambridge will offer you stability. We show our care for our people by supporting them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leave.
What will you do in this role?
In this role, you will report to the Director of Legal Operations and provide essential support to the General Counsel, whilst also improving key processes within the wider L&BA department.
The overall purpose of the role is to support the smooth and efficient operation of the Legal and Business Affairs department.
Key responsibilities will include:
* Understanding the business strategy and priorities of the General Counsel.
* Acting as the process owner for standard/central L&BA administrative processes.
* Overall responsibility for managing the diary of the General Counsel.
* Ownership of communications within L&BA and co-ordination with the wider corporate Internal Communications team.
* Management of L&BA's business facing Sharepoint site.
* Supporting the implementation and day to day running of legal systems within L&BA.
* Ownership of departmental reporting and a best practice approach to metrics.
* Responsibility for the starters and leavers process within L&BA including improvements to existing processes.
* Organising and co-ordinating a departmental training plan.
* Managing the procure to pay and expenses process as it relates to the General Counsel.
* Organising departmental meetings, travel and events.
* Monitoring incoming communications on behalf of the General Counsel.
* Managing departmental subscriptions including Solicitors Regulation Authority renewals.
* Acting as the on-site point of contact for external visitors to L&BA.
We don't mind whether you have gained your experience in-house or in law firm. While we may give an indication of desired experience in relevant roles as a guide, we're also keen to hear about different experience which would make you a strong addition to our team. You're curious to learn (we are an education and research publishing organisation after all), and a perfect mix of self-starter and team player. Along with sound legal administration skills, you will communicate effectively, enabling delivery of departmental objectives. You will be able to working collaboratively with others in the team and the wider organisation. Your success will be underpinned by your ability to prioritise, with a practical and pragmatic approach to the delivery of tasks and projects.
Careers
Ref: 18e5c4fad312466591f613e0ede6462c
Cambridge, England
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Human Resources & Legal