Legal and Compliance Services Assistant
Role Overview
Provide administrative and operational support across legal services, insurance, contracts, information governance, and wider compliance activity.
Serve as a central contact for routine enquiries and help monitor them through completion.
Work with University colleagues and external advisers, including legal advisers, insurers, brokers, and the outsourced Data Protection Officer.
Key Skills for This Role
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About the role
Provide administrative and operational support across legal services, insurance, contracts, information governance, and wider compliance activity.
Serve as a central contact for routine enquiries and help monitor them through completion.
Work with University colleagues and external advisers, including legal advisers, insurers, brokers, and the outsourced Data Protection Officer.
Key responsibilities
- Acknowledge, accurately record, direct, and monitor routine enquiries.
- Support legal matters, insurance claims, Freedom of Information requests, Subject Access Requests, and other compliance processes.
- Gather documents, coordinate actions, and monitor deadlines.
- Maintain case files, trackers, and audit trails; produce routine management information.
- Help improve processes, templates, and guidance.
About you
- Experience in administrative or operational support, gained through employment, study, placement, volunteering, or another relevant activity.
- Experience gathering and checking information, maintaining accurate records, and communicating professionally.
- Confident using Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams, with ability to learn new systems quickly.
- Able to manage a varied workload, work accurately, and meet deadlines.
- Bring strong communication, attention to detail, sound judgement, integrity, and discretion with confidential, personal, legally sensitive, and commercially sensitive information.
- Interest in legal operations, insurance, contracts, information governance, or compliance is welcomed.
Rewards and benefits
- At least 35 days of annual leave per annum, pro rata, inclusive of bank holidays and University closure days.
- Discounted membership of onsite sport and leisure facilities, a staff discounts scheme, and an employee assistance programme.
- Development programmes and automatic enrolment in the Local Government Pension Scheme.
- The University describes an award-winning on-campus working environment.
About Edge Hill University
The University states that it has been creating access to knowledge since 1885 and aims to create opportunities for students and local communities.
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