Paralegal – Data Privacy Advice team

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ICO Legal Service as a Paralegal in the Data Privacy Advice team. The Information Commissioner's Office is the independent regulator of information rights, providing advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

Job Summary: As a Paralegal, you will provide a comprehensive and professional paralegal and administrative service to support lawyers in the ICO Legal Service. You will be contracted to one of our offices in Manchester, London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, or Belfast, with hybrid working opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Using initiative and judgement, assist lawyers at all levels with ongoing legal matters, cases, and projects.
• Undertake legal research on specified legal points when required.
• Provide input into the mentoring, oversight, and training of administrative staff in the department.
• Monitor external legal spend for the team and develop statistics to identify trends.
• Assess incoming correspondence and assist other team members in flagging potential issues.
• Administer team records and databases, maintaining MS Excel spreadsheets and other reporting mechanisms.
• Attend internal and external meetings to ensure minutes are taken and records are maintained.
• Assist with preparation for presentations and events.

Person Specification: Essential criteria:

• Law degree, Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL), or equivalent law conversion qualification.
• Relevant work experience at a level demonstrating graduate ability.
• Proven ability to work independently and deal with individual case variations confidently.
• Excellent accuracy and strong attention to detail.

Essential criteria assessed during interview:

• Good intellectual and analytical ability.
• Very good written and verbal communication and strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to cope with tight deadlines.
• Experience of using computerized databases/record management systems, ideally including SharePoint, and very good working knowledge of Microsoft Office Excel and Word.

What We Offer:

• Salary: £34,604 - £44,137 per year.
• Pay progression scheme.
• Hybrid and flexible working options.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, plus privilege and public holidays.
• Flexi leave (up to 26 additional days leave per year).
• Pension (employer contribution around 28.9%).
• Online discount scheme.
• Health Cash Plan.
• Fantastic development opportunities.

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The ICO is committed to promoting and enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusion. We are focused on developing a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve.

Nationality Requirements: This job is broadly open to UK nationals, nationals of the Republic of Ireland, nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK, and nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, or Liechtenstein with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme.