Legal & Governance Administrator - Remote

Salary: £23,589 plus benefits

We are delighted to be recruiting for an experienced Legal Administrator to join our team. Working as a key member of our Legal & Governance team, you will be providing administrative assistance and support to our Legal Assistant, Legal & Governance Manager, and Head of Legal & Governance.

Reporting to our Legal & Governance Manager, you will bring an efficient and organised approach to your varied workload, you will maintain and update all appropriate legal department records and databases with a robust legal administration approach. You will undertake legal research as required and provide support on legal queries, commercial contracts, due diligence, data protection, regulatory risk & compliance and knowledge management.

Key Additional duties include:

• Developing strong relationships across the Legal & Governance team and the MM global family.
• Developing and maintaining databases, files and trackers documenting the MMI approach across a variety of key areas.
• Creating pro-forma documentation and templates and other key legal resources for use by MMI, National Affiliates and Programme subsidiaries.
• Managing our Legal inbox and draft legal updates for colleagues.
• Maintaining legal resources via SharePoint.

About you:

With excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work on your own initiative, you will be a confident problem solver who thrives in a fast-paced, varied role. A legal qualification would be desirable but not essential and our ideal candidate will bring:

• Proven ability to work on a wide range of legal matters.
• Demonstrable working experience in a similar role and good legal and administration experience
• Theoretical and practical understanding of the General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018.
• Highly competent user of MS Office packages, particularly Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint and ability to get up to speed quickly with other packages used by the legal team.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to multi-task, work effectively as part of a team, and work on own initiative.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, being flexible in approach to meet the requirements of the organisation.
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to prioritise logically and effectively.
• Strong personal integrity with a solutions focussed approach and experience of working with sensitive documentation.

We have a remote-first approach to work and are happy for you to work remotely and flexibly, in a way that best supports your work life balance, we also have an office near Glasgow city centre for those who live nearby and would like to work from here occasionally or on a regular basis.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.4 million children who today will receive a Mary’s Meals.

We are a values-driven organisation, we believe in the innate goodness of people, respect the dignity of every human being and family life and believe in good stewardship of the resources entrusted to us. In line with our values, we are fully committed to a culture of safeguarding, we are committed to preventing any type of unwanted behaviour at work and we expect all the Mary's Meals family to share this commitment and work in the best interest of the communities we serve. Our safe recruitment practices ensure that only those that are committed to our high standards join our movement.

If you are inspired to join our movement and our vision, mission and values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you. To apply, please click below to send your CV and a short covering note telling us why you are a great fit for this role and why you would like to work for Mary’s Meals International.

Closing date: Monday 8th April

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

Legal and Governance Administrator JD

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Benefits

• 8% non-contributory pension contribution - after 3 months (for international candidates the 8% pension contribution will be paid as a part of salary)
• 34 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each completed calendar year, to a maximum of 39 days (+ option to buy another week)
• Flexible working
• TELUS Employee Assistance Programme, including perks and cash back opportunities
• Life assurance