Trainee Legal Administrator

  • Full-time

Company Description

Job Title: Trainee Legal Administrator

Job Purpose
This role will provide support to the internal HR and Legal function, supporting on administrative tasks but with learning opportunities to advance knowledge within the commercial legal field.

The role will involve handling sensitive data and therefore pre-screening / vetting will be required. Any offer will be subject to these background checks.

About Us
Established in 2004, The Curve Group are the UK’s largest privately-owned Recruitment and HR provider. We deliver agile, ethical and configurable people solutions across the entire Recruitment and HR spectrum. Our mission statement, or quest as we would say, is to “Create Extraordinary People Solutions that Transform Working Lives”.

We have been recognised as an innovative and disruptive company – in our own industry and across every sector. We’ve won numerous awards and received notable recognition over the years including ‘Most Innovative Recruitment Company’, ‘Recruitment Process Outsourcer (RPO) of the Year’, ‘Best Customer Focus’, ‘Best Employer’ and ‘Best Customer Service’.

Team Curve are a force to be reckoned with. They are an incredibly talented and committed group of people who choose to live and breathe our CAPE values every day to:

  • Create Relationships…with their colleagues, candidates, clients and partner organisations
  • Realise Ambitions…by pushing themselves and the people they interact with to learn more, think smarter, move out of their comfort zone and grow as individuals
  • Be Passionate…about everything that they do and genuinely care about how they leave people feeling i.e. Curved!
  • Explore Possibilities…by coming up with innovative ideas, helping our customers to think about things differently and creating solutions

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure all terms and conditions are tracked on internal database and updated as
  • necessary
  • Research and keep up to date with the latest legal changes affecting The Curve Group
  • Gain an understanding of the contracts used within the company and learn how to
  • draft clauses
  • Help with legal queries from the team members across the business
  • Keep the legal inbox organised and ensure team members are aware of any actions
  • Sending contracts via DocuSign and ensuring all signed terms are saved down in
  • relevant folders
  • Keeping the legal folders organised and up to date, archiving any out-of-date
  • contracts
  • Work with the Contractor team to ensure all Contactor queries are dealt with in a
  • timely manner giving guidance to the team on a suitable response
  • Organise internal and external meetings if required
  • Support with internal HR admin as and when required which may involve employment
  • contracts, other HR paperwork, diary management
  • Any other duties that may be identified from time to time
  • Knowledge/Experience:
  • A successful candidate will ideally have a law degree or legal qualification
  • Excellent organisational skills and ability to handle multiple priorities
  • Strong time management and commitment to getting things done in a timely manner,
  • often in accordance to strict timelines
  • Ability to deliver high quality work
  • Logical thinker with the ability to identify solutions to problems and clearly
  • communicate them
  • Intermediate knowledge of Word and Excel

Competencies

  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders
  • Educated to A level (or equivalent) with a law qualification)
  • Problem solving
  • Willingness to learn
  • High attention to detail
  • Strong planning and organisation
  • Ambassador for the Curve Values