Job Title: Assistant General Counsel- English
Salary: £130,000-£175,000 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Full time, part time/job shares, permanent

WE ARE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS & ASSESSMENT, A WORLD-LEADING ACADEMIC PUBLISHER AND LEARNING AND ASSESSMENT ORGANISATION, AND A PROUD PART OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

We are looking for an Assistant General Counsel for our English group, to lead our legal support for this significant part of our global business with strategic and pragmatic advice.
This is an opportunity for you to join Legal & Business Affairs, an approachable team which empowers the business to make effective and ethical choices. Our enthusiasm for operational excellence helps us continually improve the way we support Cambridge. We are a large yet close-knit team that supports each other, enjoys solving problems, and loves changing the way our colleagues think about Legal, Business Ethics and Compliance. We are seeking team members who share our passion and our values: collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible.

WHO ARE YOU?

We don’t mind which university you went to or where you trained. While we give an indication in the job description of desired experience in relevant roles as a guide, we’re keen to hear about different experience which would make you a strong addition to our team.
You’re curious to learn (we are an education and research publishing organisation after all), and a perfect mix of self-starter and team player. You show us how you balance your ethical responsibilities with your commitment to helping colleagues – it’s a fine line which we pride ourselves on being good at navigating, and we’re always keen to learn from colleagues.
Along with sound legal skills, you will communicate effectively, providing expert guidance at a time and in a way that enables business colleagues to achieve their objectives. Whatever you are working on, you will be able to deliver your own initiatives and projects in a way that inspires confidence, as well as working collaboratively with others in the team and the wider organisation.
Your success will be underpinned by your ability to prioritise, with a practical and pragmatic approach, when advising on a wide variety of day-to-day matters.

WHY JOIN US

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You’ll belong to a collaborative team that’s exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it’s safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

LI-IB

In this role, you will report to the General Counsel, acting as the primary legal counsel to the English product group and sitting on its board. In that capacity you will provide strategic legal advice and guidance to board members, members of the Global Leadership Team and others on highly complex, high-risk legal matters. You will have a specific focus on overseas markets, and have supervisory responsibility over the relevant lawyers and other team members. As an active member of the L&BA senior team, you will assist in formulating the function’s strategy, articulating its culture and mission and developing and managing its talent.