Head of Legal

Youth Futures Foundation

Employment Type Temporary Fixed Term - 12 months
Location Hybrid · United Kingdom (multiple locations) London, City of · Leeds · Birmingham 3 days/week 22.5hrs
Seniority Senior
  • Closing: 9:00am, 22nd Sep 2025 BST

Job Description

The role of Head of Legal reports to the Director of Legal & Governance and you will assist them in ensuring the legal function of the organisation runs efficiently, smoothly and that we proactively identify and address legal risk and development needs.

You will be responsible for overseeing and managing the day to day legal affairs of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities include:

  • Identify legal risk and propose mitigations and solutions. 

  • Proactively identifying issues and resolving problems efficiently.

  • Providing guidance and advice to colleagues

  • Developing and managing the suite of legal templates in use across the organisation, proactively identifying areas for improvement and / or development and working collaboratively to develop new templates as needed

To apply for this role, you will be asked to upload a CV and answer 4 role based questions.

Please note: you will be asked to confirm that you are answering the questions yourself and that answers are not plagiarised or automatically generated by AI software, before you start your application. 

We expect thoughtful and personalised responses to our application questions, rather than generic AI-generated answers. Applications found to contain AI-generated content without meaningful personalisation will be flagged, and scores could be impacted.

You must ensure that you genuinely record the abilities, skills and experience that are verifiable. Remember, as the applicant, you are responsible for the entire content of your application, regardless of how it is generated.

Removing bias from the hiring process

Applications closed Mon 22nd Sep 2025

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Removing bias from the hiring process

  • Your application will be anonymously reviewed by our hiring team to ensure fairness
  • You’ll need a CV/résumé, but it’ll only be considered if you score well on the anonymous review

Applications closed Mon 22nd Sep 2025