Bristol, Leeds, London, Manchester
About The Job
Job summary
We are recruiting for a Director General, Chief Operating Officer, to provide leadership across GLD’s legal operations and corporate functions
including strategy, finance, HR and digital. This is a new role and an early priority for the successful candidate will be to ensure the appropriate structure and portfolio for this new Directorate.
The post-holder will lead circa 650 staff, currently led through Directors, based across our offices. The post holder will be a member of the GLD Board, Executive Committee (ExCo), the Ministerial Strategic Board chaired by the Attorney General, and will chair GLD’s Investment and Portfolio Management Committee.
This is a significant and highly visible leadership role across GLD and wider Government, with the DG responsible for providing leadership of GLD’s legal operations and the use of autonomous legal technology and other improved digital systems.
This will include the discovery and implementation of new legal technology and practices which will enhance the pace of delivering legal services to
clients, as well as the commissioning and performance management of private sector legal services, which form part of GLD and Government’s wider legal resourcing model.
This includes responsibility for ensuring GLD sustains its individual professional and regulatory standards and its corporate practice certification, for example LEXCEL.
As such, this role will be accountable within GLD for our ability to meet the needs of customers (clients), front line delivery lawyers and the essential
legal operations and delivery services required for GLD to succeed.
Job Description
Responsibilities, objectives and deliverables for this role will include:
Person specification
To be successful in this role you will need to be an exceptional transformational leader with deep understanding of legal practice and operations, who also brings a breadth of experience in complex organisations to enable leadership of a broad portfolio of corporate functions in a high profile and constitutionally significant service delivery environment.
It is important through your CV and Statement of Suitability that you provide evidence and examples of proven experience of the selection criteria below.
Essential Criteria
Desirable criteria
Benefits
Alongside your salary of £127,000, Government Legal Department contributes £34,290 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Full details of the selection process can be found in the attached candidate pack.
Applications should made be through the online application process, using the following link www.gatenbysanderson.com/job/GSe100321. If you require support to apply, please contact [email protected] .
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window) . See our vetting charter (opens in a new window) .
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Nationality Requirements
Open to UK nationals only.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s recruitment principles (opens in a new window) .
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.
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