Service Care Solutions is working alongside of growing local authority, based in Northamptonshire, which needs an experienced Assistant Director of Legal and Monitoring Officer to spearhead their team.
 
ROLE: Assistant Director of Legal and Monitoring Officer
RATE: £490 to £630per day umbrella - negotiable
LOCATION: Northamptonshire - Attendance at Council meetings - every 2 months, but flexible/remote other than that
CONTRACT: 3 month ongoing
 
Key Responsibilities of the Assistant Director of Legal role:

Providing high quality legal advice to the Council, Chief Officers and Elected Members.
Provide effective decision making, meet statutory requirements and ensure good general practice.
Leading the effective planning, organisation, delivery and continuous improvement and efficiency of all related services, resources and allocated budgets, through service delivery, efficiency and improvement plans as required.Key Requirements:

Monitoring Officer experience is essential. Unitary experience as have Children's Services within remit - no District only experience.
Experience of providing high quality legal advice to the Council, Chief Officers and Elected Members.
Experience of overseeing a wide range of sensitive and high-profile cases including new initiatives, policy development, major projects, constitutional issues, standards, ethics, corporate governance, corporate legal issues and other complex administrative areas of public law.Benefits:

Weekly pay.
Hybrid working.
Flexible hours.If this Assistant Legal Director vacancy sounds like an opportunity of interest for you or someone you know, then please feel free to reach out to Hugh Barnes on (phone number removed), or email (url removed).
 
We also welcome referrals for this position, where a successful recommendation would be worth £250