key details
📄 Contract: Permanent | Full-time
📍Location: Hybrid, with occasional visits to our London HQ (just 10 minutes from King’s Cross). Travel to school clusters required.
💼 Salary: £65,000 – £80,000, based on experience, with access to a generous benefits package
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About the role
Strong governance, legal expertise, and compliance are essential to a thriving organisation – this role ensures exactly that. As Head of Legal and Governance, you’ll provide strategic leadership, manage legal risks, and support schools across The Elliot Foundation.
Advising the Trust Board, CEO, and senior leadership, you’ll ensure compliance with education, company, and charity law while fostering collaboration and accountability. This role balances big-picture strategy with hands-on problem-solving, making a real impact in a fast-moving environment.
If you thrive on complexity, excel at influencing senior stakeholders, and bring both structure and adaptability, we’d love to hear from you.
about you
You have a strong legal background, with a law degree, professional qualification, or equivalent experience, and expertise in governance, compliance, and education law. With proven experience in leading governance or legal functions, you excel at navigating complex regulations, managing risks, and advising senior stakeholders.
A strategic thinker with exceptional problem-solving and communication skills, you balance compliance with practical outcomes. Proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable, you thrive in a fast-moving environment. Committed to teamwork and the Trust’s values, you bring a positive, solutions-focused approach to every challenge.
What we offer you
- Contract type: Permanent, full-time position (40 hours per week, year-round).
- Competitive salary: £65,000 – £80,000, depending on experience.
- Generous leave: 29 days of annual leave, in addition to public holidays.
- Flexibility: Hybrid working, with occasional visits to our London HQ (just 10 minutes from King’s Cross) and flexibility in the way you work.
- Generous perks: Including eye care & flu vouchers, shopping discounts, tech & IKEA salary sacrifice schemes, employee assistance program, etc;
- Pension scheme: Access to either the Local Government or Teachers’ Pension Scheme.
- Service recognition: We recognise continuous service within local government.
Safeguarding Checks
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people. All staff and volunteers are expected to share this commitment and behave in a way which reflects this.
Appointment to this post will be subject to satisfactory safeguarding pre-employment checks including a Barred List check, Disclosure and Barring Service check, and references.
Please note, it is a criminal offence to apply for this post of employment if you are barred from working with children and young people.
