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Interim Legal Counsel - Guy's and St Thomas' Foundation

Salary:          £55,000-£70,000

Contract:      12 months fixed term (full time)

Deadline:      9am on 11th July

About the role 

Key responsibilities -

Charitable partnerships (Impact on Urban Health)

  • Structure, assist colleagues with drafting and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of partnerships and projects, including commercial contracts, grants, IP licenses, novel investment models, revenue-sharing arrangements and data agreements
  • Act as a thought partner with the team to advise on the structuring, legal risks and strategic implications of partnerships and future opportunities
  • Maintain and appropriately file correspondence and documentation relating to commercial contracts.

Procedure and policy efficiencies

  • Draft, maintain and update our internal guidelines, policies and standard-form documents

Tailored partnerships

  • Consider legal considerations, and appropriate processes, for collaborating with certain partners (e.g., regulatory, private gain, data protection, policy), including advising on due diligence procedures and tailoring our standard form templates
  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders on longer-term projects to change our partnership models to cede power to the communities we work with, whilst balancing this against our charity law obligations

Cross-functional work

  • Work with cross-functional stakeholders, including communications, policy and influencing, evaluation and the Executive Team to advise on cross-team collaboration, opportunities, issues and risks relating to our charitable partnerships
  • Support teams such as property, endowment and HR on their legal needs, including drafting, negotiating and agreeing documents

Governance and legal

  • Support the Foundation’s Legal Counsel & Company Secretary in advising colleagues on legal and governance matters
  • Undertaking research into specific legal issues or matters of best practice.
  • Identify need for, organise and run training sessions on key legal and compliance issues to Foundation staff

How to apply 

Thanks for your interest in working with us.

We’re working hard to ensure we recruit great people and minimise unconscious bias in our selection process. To support this, we use the Applied platform, which anonymises applicants. To for information and to apply please click here

To find out more about the role, please contact jobs@gsttcharity.org.uk

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