Statutory Agreement Manager

Description:

Our Statutory Agreement team plays a crucial quality control and specialist support role within the wider team, focusing specifically on reviewing, verifying, and ensuring the accuracy and compliance of complex legal documents such as Section 278 and S38 Highways Act agreements, S104 Water Industry Act agreement, Deeds of Easement, Substation Lease Agreements.

Responsibilities

Oversee and manage the Statutory Agreement team, providing support to the busy planning department including:

• Providing support and supervision to the wider team;
• Managing a large volume of highway and other infrastructure agreements.
• Checking the legal accuracy, coherence and compliance of the statutory agreements against current legislation, court practice, and internal policies.
• Keeping a schedule of statutory agreements and supervising junior team members dealing with statutory agreements.
• Overseeing accurate file management, ensuring risk is minimised
• Ensuring all documents are correctly processed and completed.
• Ensuring files are managed in compliance with Lexcel procedures
• Building and maintaining effective client relationships
• Such other tasks as may be required to support the rest of the planning department

What you will need

The firm has a Career Development Framework which sets out the competencies we expect of those at the Associate/Senior Associate/Manager role. In particular for this role we require:

• Proven experience in managing a team, supervising transactional casework, and supporting staff development.
• Experience in dealing with statutory agreements.
• Drive, enthusiasm and vision.
• Flexibility and can-do approach
• Excellent communication skills with a collaborative approach.
• Proven ability to take on responsibility and manage files, independently where appropriate.
• Strong client focus and a commitment to service delivery.
• Strong technical and organisational skills.
• Ability to work to deadlines;
• Team based approach.
• Commercial awareness.