Paralegal

at  The Growth Company

REF NO

4463
The Growth Company is seeking a Paralegal to provide legal support to the GC Group. This role involves close collaboration with the company secretary, data protection officer, in-house solicitors, procurement manager, and senior management team (SMT) members across the GC Group.
The Growth Company is an award-winning, accredited, social enterprise with a mission to enable growth, create jobs and improve lives. We deliver a range of services, working with customers and stakeholders to achieve our vision of a society where economic growth and prosperity is inclusive, sustainable and leaves no person or community behind.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the company secretary with forms and filings at Companies House, maintaining statutory registers and drafting or amending various company documents.
• Aid the data protection officer with data protection matters.
• Provide general legal support to in-house solicitors on company and commercial law, intellectual property, employment law, etc.
• Assist with various legal agreements as required by the GC Group.
• Support with company acquisitions, mergers, and disposals, including due diligence.
• Carry out research tasks and reporting on legal and regulatory topics.
• Administer invoices and purchase orders for the legal team and review legal spend across the GC Group.
• Collaborate with the group procurement management on contract preparation.
• Perform other tasks to support the company secretary and in-house solicitors, such as liaising with finance, registering companies as charities, registering trademarks, attending, and minuting committee meetings, arranging meetings, and coordinating diaries.

About You:

• Paralegal with previous general commercial experience gained in-house or in private practice.
• Ability to work confidently both independently and within a team environment.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage a varied workload and balance competing demands.
• Good interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels.
• Ability to analyse processes and procedures and apply data protection legislation to ensure legal compliance.
• Highly proficient in the use of Microsoft Office systems (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).
• Good organisational skills, with the ability to manage simultaneous tasks and work well in a busy environment.

Skills/Experience Required:

• Researching and reporting on legal and regulatory topics.
• Experience or understanding of data protection.
• Carrying out due diligence.
• Company secretarial experience.
• Ability to understand, demonstrate, and apply GC values: Make a positive difference, Stronger together, Empower people, Do the right thing, Build on success.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.
If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.
We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.
As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.
We are a member of the national campaign Ban the Box; this campaign aims to open opportunities for people with convictions to compete for jobs. We’re supporting the campaign by removing conviction questions at the applications stage.
GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.
If you require support with the recruitment process, please contact or Internal Recruitment Team at careers@growthco.uk or call us on 0161 237 4447.
All GC colleagues will work inline with the Health & Safety at work act and the GC Health & Safety Policy

• Support the company secretary with forms and filings at Companies House, maintaining statutory registers and drafting or amending various company documents.
• Aid the data protection officer with data protection matters.
• Provide general legal support to in-house solicitors on company and commercial law, intellectual property, employment law, etc.
• Assist with various legal agreements as required by the GC Group.
• Support with company acquisitions, mergers, and disposals, including due diligence.
• Carry out research tasks and reporting on legal and regulatory topics.
• Administer invoices and purchase orders for the legal team and review legal spend across the GC Group.
• Collaborate with the group procurement management on contract preparation.
• Perform other tasks to support the company secretary and in-house solicitors, such as liaising with finance, registering companies as charities, registering trademarks, attending, and minuting committee meetings, arranging meetings, and coordinating diaries