Head of Legal & Data Protection

Head of Legal & Data Protection 
Burford, Oxfordshire 

About Us: 

Blue Cross are one the UK’s leading rehoming organisations for animals. We support sick, injured and homeless pets and care for more than 40,000 animals every year through our rehoming, veterinary and education programmes. 

We’re working to rehome 20,000 pets by 2020 and continuing compliance and expert legal services will support this aim. As such, we are looking for a Head of Legal & Data Protection to join our team in Burford. 

The Benefits: 

- Salary of £50,000 - £55,000 per annum 
- Employee assistance programme 
- Pension scheme 
- Company sick pay 
- Life Insurance 

Here at Blue Cross, pets are at the heart of everything we do. We have been championing animal welfare for over a century and you will play a key role in ensuring we can continue our vital work. 

You’ll have the chance to take the reins of the Legal Department and play a key leadership role in the delivery of legal services, advice and compliance across our charity. 

We’re here to make a real difference to the lives of animals and your role will enable us to continue to do this, continue to grow and expand as a charity and continue all our activity in a legal, compliant manner. 

Your Role:

As the Head of Legal & Data Protection, you will provide pragmatic and high quality legal and commercial advice to all elements of our charity. 

Specifically, you will be involved in drafting and checking contracts and other key agreements and managing relationships with external law firms to ensure the best legal advice is obtained. 

Additionally, you will act as our Data Protection Officer and will lead our GDPR compliance programme to ensure we maintain and develop our practices in line with legislation. 

About You:

To be considered as the Head of Legal & Data Protection, you will need: 

- A full legal qualification or an equivalent qualification and/or experience 
- Significant experience of Data Protection law and/or GDPR and the requirements it places on organisations 
- A legal services background within a dispersed, multi-functional organisation 
- Experience within the not for profit sector 
- The ability to understand and interpret complex legal information pertinent to the running of a charity and its trading subsidiaries 
- Good working knowledge of property law and contract law 
- Experience of servicing formal meetings or committees 
- The ability to constructively challenge whilst maintaining positive and professional relationships 
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent 

Other organisations may call this role Head of Legal & Data Protection, Head of Legal, Head of Legal and Compliance, Head of Compliance, Senior Legal Counsel, Legal Counsel, Lawyer, or Solicitor. 

Webrecruit and Blue Cross are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be. 

So, if you are ready to take on a new challenge as our next Head of Legal & Data Protection, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.