Governance Lawyer

Job Title: Governance Lawyer

Job reference: PEB/624803

Job description: A Local Authority in Yorkshire has approached Venn Group for a Governance Lawyer to join their legal team for a 3 month period with the likely possibility of extension. This role will be mostly remote, but to the candidate will be required to attend meetings at the Town Hall.

The successful candidate will be dealing with:

• • attending project meetings
• • advising on the legal requirements and limitations of a committee system
• • advising on the legal requirements of a local authority constitution
• • drafting parts of the new constitution
• • drafting a scheme of delegations
• • contributing to/advising on/drafting policy documents and protocols connected with the operation of the constitution and the new committee system

Ideally candidates will have previous experience of advising on/drafting local authority constitutions. Familiarity with the modern committee system would be a definite advantage as would experience of putting complex legal concepts into plain language as we are looking to make our new constitution as easy to understand for a lay person as possible. Candidates need to be capable of reading and understanding large amount of documents quickly as we will need them to be fully up to speed in just a few weeks (at most, it depends on how soon they would be available).

Hourly rate:  £50-60 (via an umbrella company or equivalent)

To discuss this role in more detail please contact Paddy Behan on or by calling

Venn Group is an equal opportunities employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.