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Cromer
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Career Graded
Vacancy Type
Fixed Term Contract
External Advertising End Date
27 Apr 2025
Contract Term:
Full Time

About The Role

Eastlaw is a successful, award winning legal practice hosted by North Norfolk District Council. We provide legal services to local authorities, charities, housing associations and other not-for profit organisations. At Eastlaw we pride ourselves on the quality of our people and the services they provide and we believe passionately in providing the best possible advice and assistance to our clients to help them realise their ambitions.  

Eastlaw covers a wide range of interesting work. Whatever your background, there will be an opportunity to develop within a supportive, considerate and highly regarded team.  

There are two levels for this career graded role:

  • Salary for level 1 (Grade 7) - £38,626 to £42,708
  • Salary for level 2 (Grade 6) - £43,693 to £47,754
Please apply for the level that most suits your experience, skills and knowledge based upon the requirements listed in the job description. 

About You

We are looking to recruit a lawyer (e.g. solicitor, barrister or Fellow of the Charter Institute of Legal Executives) for up to 3 years, on a fixed term contract. The ideal candidate will have experience in one or more of the following areas: Litigation, Commercial Property, Contract, Commercial and Procurement within a Local Government setting, although other areas and other settings would be considered.

We welcome applications for office based or hybrid working for this role. For any remote working, applicants must have a stable broadband connection.

If you want to be part of an enthusiastic and forward-thinking team, with a varied and challenging workload then we would like to hear from you.
 
The closing date for applications is 11.59pm on Sunday 27 April 2025
Interviews will be held on Wednesday 7 May 2025
 

For an informal discussion, please send your contact details to [email protected] and someone will get in touch.

About Us

We're committed to promoting equality of opportunity for the people and communities of North Norfolk. We respect and value differences in our district and across our workforce, and we want everyone to feel included and able to play their part in making North Norfolk a great place to live, learn, work and visit. Our coast and environment are extremely important to us. We have a Net Zero strategy and a team working to deliver these important initiatives.

We have a supportive culture that enables our people to learn and grow through attending courses, e-learning, and their daily job roles. We provide excellent opportunities for communication through updates from Directors and the Chief Executive. Our our onsite recognised union is UNISON.

Our Cromer office is clean, modern and light, with onsite lunchtime catering and free onsite parking. As one of the largest employers in the district, we offer several benefits to all our employees:

  • employee assistance program
  • discounts portal
  • salary sacrifice schemes (bikes, home electricals and EV car leasing).

You will also enjoy:

  • a good work-life balance, with many roles following our hybrid approach to work (if your role supports hybrid working, all we ask is that you have a stable and reliable internet connection)
  • 25 days' holiday per year, plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service (assuming the role is full-time)
  • access to an excellent local government pension scheme based on your local authority career average earnings

We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

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