Legal Coordinator / Technical Administration / Legal / Legislation / Social Housing

Legal Coordinator
Yeovil
Circa 30,000 per annum
Full Time
Permanent

It’s an exciting time at Yarlington as we work towards our Corporate strategy, Next-Gen 2017-2021 and focus on growing our organisation and working tirelessly towards solving the housing crisis.

It’s our collaborative colleagues that make Yarlington a fantastic place to work, along with brilliant management, senior leadership and the professional and personal development opportunities available. This led to us being recognised as 12th in the Times Top 100 Best Organisations to work for 2017 as well as achieving Gold Investors in People accreditation.

Do you have the passion and dedication to work with us to ensure that better future? If you share our vision and want to play a key role in Next-Gen we would love to hear from you. In return, we will provide you with a work environment and culture that will enable you to innovate and thrive.

Why wouldn’t you want to join the Yarlington team?

We are seeking a Legal Coordinator to provide sound and effective legal services to ensure that we continue to maintain legal and regulatory compliance. You will provide legal assistance to the collective organisation and to be a point of call for our framework lawyers when external expertise is sought.

Proactive in your approach, you will monitor and manage the legal work queues and update our customers and external parties accordingly, collate evidence including witness statements and lead on legal licenses to carry out anti-money laundering checks.

We are looking for a team player with drive and passion who has a proactive nature and the ability to act upon their own initiative. The successful candidate will have the ability to effectively manage their workload and prioritise work under pressure. You will be confident in conversing with customers, lawyers and third parties both on the phone and face-to-face. You must have the ability to disseminate legal information and have an understanding of the legal requirements of a housing provider.

Resident Positive – We will guarantee at least two tenants an interview based on them meeting the essential criteria.

The closing date for this role is 20th January 2019.

Video interviews will be held on 22nd January 2019.

Face-to-face Interviews 6th February 2019.