Senior Associate Legal Adviser

Requirements of the role

The Legal Team at Ofwat is varied and ever-changing and some examples of work other colleagues have been involved in include advising on our five-yearly price-reviews, developing a new customer-focused licence condition for water companies in serving residential customers to improve outcomes for customers, and advising on enforcement cases. We pride ourselves on providing high quality, pragmatic, solutions-focussed advice, clearly, simply and concisely.

You will be working flexibly across the range of Ofwat’s work, from longer-term policy projects to urgent, ad hoc matters requiring an immediate response.  The primary focus of the role will be as set out under the Key Deliverables below, although there may also be other areas of Ofwat’s work where advice may be requested.

Key Deliverables:

In this role you will be expected to:

• Provide high quality, timely and solutions-focussed legal advice across a number of Directorates, workstreams and projects;
• Be fully involved in helping policy teams develop and deliver strategically focussed policy which is legally robust;
• Be an adaptable thinker and incorporate wider considerations into your work, helping to identify and manage organisational risks and opportunities;
• Demonstrate good judgement and to create clarity and build trust through effective communication and collaboration;
• Proactively share skills and knowledge, and support others in doing this; and
• Support Ofwat’s relationships with external law firms and legal counsel, other regulators and government.

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