Job Description
Job Title: Legal Officer (Family Law)
Salary: £10,211 Gross Pay per annum [pro rata to length of post]
[FTE £31,647 per annum]
Conditions: 10.5 hours per week (1 ½ days)
Holiday entitlement: Pro rata of FTE 25 days annual leave plus public holidays.
Location: Rights of Women, 52-54 Featherstone Street, LondonEC1Y 8RT
Responsible to: Director of Rights of Women
Line Manager:Senior Legal Officer (Family and Criminal)
Duration:Fixed term post until 30th September 2017, with possibility of extension
Pension – general note for financial year 2017/18: Rights of Womenwill be providing a workplace pension scheme (as part of its auto enrolment duties) from 1st May 2017. Eligible employees will be enrolled into this scheme or can proceed with an existing qualifying scheme. Eligible employees will be expected to make a minimum 1% employee earnings contribution towards their chosen scheme up to 05.04.18. ROW will match the employee contribution up to a maximum of 3% during this period. Employee minimum contributions will rise after this in line with conditions set by the Government. Further information can be provided on request.
Summary of post
The Legal Officer (Family law) is responsible for delivery of Rights of Women’s core services including providing legal advice on our telephone advice lines, delivering training and writing publications. She also contributes to Rights of Women’s policy work. It is anticipated this post will focus primarily on providing support to women, mostly face-to-face,to make Exceptional Case Funding (ECF) applications.
Key tasks and responsibilities
The post holder is expected to carry out the following duties;
Provide confidential and quality legal advice to women on our telephone advice lines
Provide assistance to women to make Exceptional Case Funding (Family Law) applications
Assist with the administration of advice services and volunteer legal advisors
Prepare and deliver training courses, seminars, workshops and conferences
Represent Rights of Women at meetings, seminars and conferences
Keep abreast of developments and changes in the legal system
Research and write legal materialsfor and on behalf of Rights of Women
Contribute to and write policy submissions on behalf of Rights of Women
Assist in research projects and reports on a range of legal and policy issues affecting women
Respond to requests from the media
General
Attend staff, strategy and other Rights of Women meetings
Attend supervision sessions with the Senior Legal Officer
Attend reflective practice sessions
Adhere to and work within Rights of Women’s policies and procedures
Work within the budgetary constraints set in accordance with Rights of Women’s financial regulations
Undertake such other reasonable tasks as requested by the Director