Pensions Professional Support Lawyer

Requirements of the role

TPR’s legal team’s knowhow function is integral to the team’s success. Having a dedicated Pensions Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) is essential for the efficient functioning of the legal team and key to it delivering high quality legal advice to the rest of TPR.

We’re looking for a PSL who has a background in providing pensions law advice. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to manage (and contribute to) TPR’s legal knowhow function and improve the efficiency and consistency of the legal team’s advice, support TPR’s legal team’s management and the success of the wider organisation.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and coordinate the sharing of legal knowledge, learning and development in a coordinated manner to support the provision of well-informed, consistent legal advice by TPR’s legal team. This will be through various media and products (for example, a training schedule and maintaining the knowhow databases, including contributing content to those databases).
• Contribute to this pool of legal knowledge by providing robust legal and risk mitigation advice to the Legal team on issues relevant to TPR’s functions, working with members of the team to produce and agree house views and deliver training on these (and other) issues.
• Evaluate the efficacy of TPR’s legal team’s knowhow initiatives, products and strategies as well as identify and implement opportunities for improvement.
• Work alongside TPR’s legal team and the Legal Knowhow Associate.
• Support TPR’s legal management team.
• Work alongside other colleagues across TPR to identify efficiencies, to ensure the effective sharing of relevant know-how and to work with the legal management team, other members of the legal team and clients to help identify areas where legal advice is needed.
• Represent TPR’s legal team both internally and externally.

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