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It is an exciting time to join Loughborough University, as it has been named the Times and Sunday Times University of the Year. From our 440 acre campus in the heart of Leicestershire and our postgraduate London campus on Queen Elizabeth Park, the University is enjoying a time of unprecedent achievement. Our distinctive approach to recruiting, retaining and developing the very best people, in a time of change and challenge within the sector, is helping to create the right team to support us to achieve even more.
Loughborough University's ambition is to maintain its status as a world leading Higher Education institution across teaching, research and enterprise, but that doesn't mean standing still. To support this ambition, the University has created a Legal Services team to provide high quality, pragmatic and focussed commercial legal support.
Our East Midlands campus is the largest single campus University in England. Delivery of our University strategy requires working in partnership with a wide range of external organisations across the University's activities, including teaching, research, enterprise and sport. Many of these are stakeholders in the University's East Midlands and London campuses and form a diverse range of organisations including sports governing bodies, public sector bodies and local, national and international companies. Notably, the University's Science and Enterprise Park, including Sport Park, brings in many interesting tenants and stakeholders. Together, this generates a stimulating and varied workload of property and construction legal work.
As the in-house Property and Construction specialist and a new role at the University, the postholder will be in a unique position to lay the foundations for successful in-house service provision to the University for years to come. Working with the Head of Legal Services and with operational colleagues in Estates and Facilities Management, the postholder will be required to provide timely, outcomes focussed and commercially astute property and construction legal advice to support the development and management of our property holdings, tenants and licensees. In parallel, the post holder will establish robust processes, precedents and record keeping for legal documents in support of colleagues in Estates and Facilities Management.
As this is a new post, the successful candidate will work closely with the University's external legal advisors, Freeths, who are currently providing property and construction support, to reduce our reliance on external support over a period of 1-2 years. Adopting a co-sourcing approach to secure transfer of their knowledge of the University's property interests, the successful candidate will be required to spend some time working alongside the University's external legal advisors at the Loughborough and London campuses and in their offices in the East Midlands and London. This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with Freeths and to enjoy the development opportunities presented by being in house and working hand in hand with private practice.
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Informal enquiries should be made to Sam McGinty, Head of Legal Services by email at s.a.mcginty@lboro.ac.uk or by telephone on 01509 228494.
The closing date for receipt of applications is Sunday 2nd June 2019. Interviews will be held on Friday 28th June 2019.