JOB SUMMARY

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This is an exciting opportunity to join HMRC Legal Group as a Senior Lawyer.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Senior Lawyer
Lawyers will be expected to take responsibility for leading their areas of work, be it, high value litigation, leading projects or managing the delivery of a specific area of legal work. They will be accountable for the delivery and management of significant volumes of complex, high profile work and need to have the ability to work collaboratively with policy teams and senior stakeholders to achieve Departmental objectives.
In addition, we expect our Grade 6 Senior Lawyers to be able to work collaboratively across HMRC Legal Group, HMRC, the Government Legal Profession (GLP) and external stakeholders as appropriate, taking into account wider issues when delivering advice and contributing to the leadership of our organisation.
Our G6 Senior Lawyers need to have excellent legal professional skills, the ability to provide robust risk based legal advice and to effectively supervise the provision of legal advice of others they are leading.
We have two types of roles: 1) Mini Team Leader and 2) Specialist Senior litigation/advisory Lawyers. Successful candidates will be allocated a role which will be determined by business need at the time of taking up appointment.
Candidates must note that it is expected that during a career within HMRC Legal Group, Senior Lawyers are expected to move between specialist and management roles, depending on business need.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop within two core areas, law and leadership. We have developed a structured and fully supported leadership and management development programme.
Please refer to the current role profiles for Grade 6 Team Leaders and Grade 6 Specialist Lawyer roles. These set out our expectations of Senior lawyers for these roles.
Through this campaign we seek to fill multiple roles across a full range of teams and specialisms, both for vacancies now as well as those anticipated before this campaign concludes. Within our lawyer community there are also regular opportunities to broaden skills and experience, switch between specialist and team leader roles and work in different teams. We, therefore, encourage applications that demonstrate experience and capabilities across the full range of legal roles.
The candidate pack includes more information about HMRC Legal Group, the work that we do, an outline for the roles and responsibilities of an HMRC Legal Group Senior Lawyer and the selection process.
Questions relating to an individual application must be emailed as detailed later in this advert.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• You will be asked a legal skills question, further information on this will be provided to those invited to interview.

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

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