Compliance Advisor In-House

JOB TITLE: Compliance Advisor (In-house)
LOCATION: £40,000 – 45,000
SALARY: London based hub - with hybrid working
THE ROLE: This is an exciting opportunity for a Paralegal or Legal Executive with compliance experience to join a leading global think tank. Reporting into the Legal Counsel key Responsibilities will include.
• Be responsible for ensuring that risk registers are maintained and updated to track risk within the organisation.
• In consultation with team leaders and the COO, help to put in place measures to reduce risk, including writing new policies and procedures or keeping existing ones up to date.
• Ensure adherence to any risk policies and procedures through communication with staff and deliver training sessions on new policies as appropriate.
• Draft agreements related to research projects, based on template agreements. Respond to queries from subcontractors/consultants and draft amendments to those agreements. Ensure that agreements with subcontractors cover – where applicable – all the obligations undertaken in the main contract by the Institute. Prepare the pack of papers to be signed and progress to signature using online signing software.
• Carry out an initial review of commercial contracts, including funding agreements, frameworks, MDA.s MOUs, collaboration and teaming agreements and work with the Inhouse Solicitor to deal with any areas of risk in those contracts that need negotiating in order to progress to signing.
• Work with the Bids & Contracts team to ensure that all policies and procedures that are required by funders on various projects are in place, and monitor compliance with those policies and procedures.
THE CANDIDATE:
• Educated to degree level with 4+ year experience in a legal environment.
• A track record providing legal advice in relation to compliance work and commercial contracts.
• Experience of reviewing and drafting legal agreements and documents.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and escalate matters where necessary.
• Ability to work efficiently and prioritise your workloads in a fast-paced environment, delivering a high level of accuracy and attention to detail within tight timeframes.
HOW TO APPLY:
Contact Pasquale Agatiello at eNL on or email with your CV, or simply call for a confidential discussion. eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission.
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