Job ref: 181498
TPR grade: Advisory Grade 6 – Principal
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 £2trn 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
TPR’s legal team’s knowhow function is integral to the team’s success. Having a dedicated Pensions Professional Support Lawyer (PSL) is essential for the efficient functioning of the legal team and key to it delivering high quality legal advice to the rest of TPR.
We’re looking for a PSL who has a background in providing pensions law advice. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to manage (and contribute to) TPR’s legal knowhow function and improve the efficiency and consistency of the legal team’s advice, support TPR’s legal team’s management and the success of the wider organisation.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and coordinate the sharing of legal knowledge, learning and development in a coordinated manner to support the provision of well-informed, consistent legal advice by TPR’s legal team. This will be through various media and products (for example, a training schedule and maintaining the knowhow databases, including contributing content to those databases).
- Contribute to this pool of legal knowledge by providing robust legal and risk mitigation advice to the Legal team on issues relevant to TPR’s functions, working with members of the team to produce and agree house views and deliver training on these (and other) issues.
- Evaluate the efficacy of TPR’s legal team’s knowhow initiatives, products and strategies as well as identify and implement opportunities for improvement.
- Work alongside TPR’s legal team and the Legal Knowhow Associate.
- Support TPR’s legal management team.
- Work alongside other colleagues across TPR to identify efficiencies, to ensure the effective sharing of relevant know-how and to work with the legal management team, other members of the legal team and clients to help identify areas where legal advice is needed.
- Represent TPR’s legal team both internally and externally.
Essential and desirable criteria
Essential Criteria
- Comprehensive experience as a solicitor or barrister with a current practicing certificate in England and Wales.
- Extensive experience working in a PSL role.
- Comprehensive experience providing consistent, clear, audience-tailored risk-based advice.
- Comprehensive post-qualification experience of providing pensions advice to employers, investors, lenders and/or trustees as well as substantial technical pensions knowledge.
- High awareness of the pensions and regulatory environment (including public law issues) and its strategic trends and issues.
- Demonstrable ability to authoritatively present an organisation’s views both internally and externally.
- Highly organised, creative, resilient and self-motivated and able to prioritise a full portfolio of work and competing deadlines.
Desirable Criteria
- Post-qualification experience of providing public, commercial and regulatory advice.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £80,513 - £91,695, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 181498 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 period
Current employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis. If you want your application to be considered as part of a job share, please apply with the hours you are available to work.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
The Pensions Regulator is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.