Principal Lawyer

at  The Pensions Regulator

ABOUT US

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

ROLE

We are looking for a Principal Lawyer to join the team that advises on Automatic Enrolment. The successful candidate will provide advice and support on operational, policy, and litigation matters to the Regulatory Compliance Directorate and other key stakeholders across TPR.
They will also provide good quality, consistent, timely, commercial and pragmatic legal advice on legal issues and legal risks over a wide range of subjects, support complex, large and high profile regulatory investigations and proceedings and represent and support the organisation both internally and externally.

RESPONSIBILITIES

You will:

• provide high quality, timely, consistent, and pragmatic legal advice to a range of different stakeholders
• advise on AE litigation before the First Tier or Upper Tribunal, debt recovery in the County Court, and Criminal Prosecution, including, where appropriate, the instruction of Counsel
• advise on (AE) operational and policy developments within the Regulatory Compliance directorate
• identify, advise on, and escalate decisions that create unmanaged legal risk
• contribute to the internal legal knowledge management system and assist in supporting the learning and development of colleagues and clients, including sharing knowledge and actively participating in training

To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 208807 along with:

• a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
• a copy of your CV
• details of your notice perio