Team Leader - Supervision

Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
12 months
Full time - flexible working may be considered
35 hours per week
£40,414 - £47,546 per annum
Birmingham
What's in it for me

Demonstrate a positive and proactive approach to achieving organisational objectives through your work across the SRA.

Take responsibility for leading on projects and priorities, engaging with other SRA functions to support your evidence gathering and credible deterrence approach, and providing intelligence and feedback.

Manage a team of Supervisors, mentor them within their roles and commit to driving their continued development and learning, providing appropriate training on relevant topics and supporting individuals to improve and fully engage in their own development and learning

Your role

Our Regulatory Supervisors are responsible for managing a portfolio of cases of differing complexities; engaging with firms and investigating reports about misconduct and regulatory breaches. It will be down to you to manage and support your team of supervisors, providing operational and technical leadership, oversight of key decision making, and leading and supporting on the most complex matters. Your role will also include providing strategic input into your team’s work, as well as optimise your team’s performance and the delivery of objectives.


What we’re looking for

Either from a regulatory background, or with extensive experience of working in a law firm, you’ll bring a good awareness of the legal services market. You will need to be an excellent communicator, with experience of coaching, mentoring and developing people, as well as performance management. You’ll be able to evidence you can work effectively in a changing environment and be able to make sound judgements based on clear rationale. You should be flexible, tenacious and able to adjust your priorities at short notice. We’re looking for someone who is a natural leader, has the ability to manage team members and stakeholders effectively with a proven ability to influence and challenge others. You’ll work well as part of a team but you will be equally as happy to work autonomously.

Currently we have 2 permanent and 1 fixed-term contract opportunity in the Supervision team.

Essential

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and experience:

Relevant regulatory experience, and/or extensive law practice experience. If only one present evidence of strong ability to fully comprehend the other.

Must be able to demonstrate a good commercial awareness or understanding of the legal services market, including political and economic influencing factors.

Excellent leadership skills, with a proven ability to manage performance, with experience of coaching, mentoring and developing people.

Excellent communication skills – the ability to adapt style to explain complex issues succinctly, with clarity both in writing and orally, and a proven ability to influence and challenge others.

Proactive decision making and an ability to analyse complex information and make sound judgements based on clear rationale - demonstrating a good sense of risk-based judgement and business acumen to identify key issues and solutions.

Evidence of working in a dynamic environment where priorities may change at short notice, and be able to make sound judgements, along with the ability to plan and deliver effective results – resilient and tenacious.

Proven experience of operating autonomously and collaborating as part of a functional or cross functional team.

Willingness to learn and develop new skills, taking on new responsibilities and adopting a flexible, pragmatic approach to work.

Relevant academic qualifications.

Desirable

Good knowledge of the legal framework and the SRA’s principles / rules against which the key regulatory risks in the regulation of legal services will be assessed.

Strong financial analysis skills - ability to critically examine, interpret and challenge financial statements.

Demonstrable experience of delivering change through leadership.

The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards.
We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life.

Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation.
Vacancy closing date: 11/11/2015, 23:55

The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer.

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff.

Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.

 We are a Stonewall Top 100 Employer, a member of ENEI, a disability confident employer and we are happy to talk flexible working.

This opportunity is closed to applicants.