Job Title: Legal Operations Co-Ordinator
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Salary: £32,300-£42,050 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (weekly attendance in Cambridge expected)
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and learning and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
We are looking for someone with experience managing the administration of a legal department.
This is an opportunity for you to join the legal operations team which sits within the Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA) department.
The Legal and Business Affairs (L&BA) department provides legal support and ensures regulatory compliance against business delivery in 170 countries.
We actively seek new team members who share our passion and our values: collaborative, innovative, empowering and responsible.
Why would you join us?
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success.
We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for.
We are particularly focused on inclusion and improving diversity at all levels in the organisation, including for this role. We know that diversity of thinking, backgrounds and approaches leads to innovation and creates an atmosphere where everyone's contribution is valued.
What can we offer you?
The role will involve supporting the General Counsel from an administrative perspective whilst also managing departmental initiatives.
Working with Cambridge will offer you stability. We show our care for our people by supporting them to grow not just professionally but also personally. We promote work-life balance through flexible work schedules, hybrid work arrangements, and generous paid leave.
What will you do in this role?
In this role, you will report to the Director of Legal Operations and provide essential support to the General Counsel, whilst also improving key processes within the wider L&BA department.
The overall purpose of the role is to support the smooth and efficient operation of the Legal and Business Affairs department.
Key responsibilities will include:
- Understanding the business strategy and priorities of the General Counsel.
- Acting as the process owner for standard/central L&BA administrative processes.
- Overall responsibility for managing the diary of the General Counsel.
- Ownership of communications within L&BA and co-ordination with the wider corporate Internal Communications team.
- Management of L&BA's business facing Sharepoint site.
- Supporting the implementation and day to day running of legal systems within L&BA.
- Ownership of departmental reporting and a best practice approach to metrics.
- Responsibility for the starters and leavers process within L&BA including improvements to existing processes.
- Organising and co-ordinating a departmental training plan.
- Managing the procure to pay and expenses process as it relates to the General Counsel.
- Organising departmental meetings, travel and events.
- Monitoring incoming communications on behalf of the General Counsel.
- Managing departmental subscriptions including Solicitors Regulation Authority renewals.
- Acting as the on-site point of contact for external visitors to L&BA.
Who are you?
We don't mind whether you have gained your experience in-house or in law firm.
While we may give an indication of desired experience in relevant roles as a guide, we're also keen to hear about different experience which would make you a strong addition to our team.
You're curious to learn (we are an education and research publishing organisation after all), and a perfect mix of self-starter and team player.
Along with sound legal administration skills, you will communicate effectively, enabling delivery of departmental objectives. You will be able to working collaboratively with others in the team and the wider organisation.
Your success will be underpinned by your ability to prioritise, with a practical and pragmatic approach to the delivery of tasks and projects.
Location
We like getting together in the office but we also support hybrid working. The amount of time in the office will be a decision based on your and the team's needs, rather than rigid requirements. Our expectation for this role is three days a week in our Cambridge office. We'll give you the tools you need to do your job wherever that may be.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 5th September 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 15th September 2025.
This recruitment process will be a 2 stage process. The 1st interview will be a virtual interview and if successful, the 2nd interview will be a face-to-face interview in Cambridge.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
