We’re an independent charitable foundation. We invest in a healthier society, backing people and ideas to drive more equitable health. Previously Guy's and St Thomas' Charity.

Non-profit

Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation

You need legal research skills, strong communication, contract drafting experience, knowledge of charity law, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

You will draft and negotiate agreements, advise on legal risks, support grant administration, enhance policies, collaborate cross-functionally, and ensure governance compliance.

Legal

London

<div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Description</b></h3><div><br>
The Legal and Governance team sits within the Operations directorate at the Foundation. We are a small, agile unit, looking to turn our hands at anything that comes our way to assist the organisation and our colleagues to achieve our charitable mission. As a team, our work covers a broad spectrum of legal and governance matters, from commercial contracts and grant agreements, to advising on intellectual property, charity law requirements around restricted funds, fundraising, campaigning and political activity through to commissioning and collating Board and committee meeting materials and company secretarial duties. This role is key to the development of our team and the work we do across the Foundation.</div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Key Responsibilities</b></h3><div><b><br>
Charitable partnerships (Impact on Urban Health)</b></div><ul>
<li>Structure and assist colleagues with drafting and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of charitable partnerships, including commercial contracts, grants, IP licenses, novel investment models, revenue-sharing arrangements and data agreements.</li>
<li>Act as a thought partner with the team to advise on the structuring, legal risks and strategic implications of partnerships and future opportunities.</li>
<li>Maintain and appropriately file correspondence and documentation relating to commercial contracts.</li>
</ul><div><b>Grants administration (Programmatic, Hospital funding and Special fund grants)</b></div><ul><li>
Advise colleagues, alongside the Grants Operations team, on the drafting and execution of grant agreements, including tailoring agreements for individuals, unincorporated groups and commercial entities and advising on IP ownership and commercialisation, indemnities, on-funding obligations and other queries.</li></ul><div><b>
Procedure and policy efficiencies</b></div><ul><li>Draft, maintain and update our internal guidelines, policies and standard-form documents.</li><li>Create policy and process efficiencies.</li></ul><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>
Tailored partnerships</b></div><ul>
<li>Consider legal considerations, and appropriate processes, for working with certain partners (e.g., regulatory, private gain, data protection, policy), including advising on due diligence procedures and tailoring our standard form templates.</li>
<li>Work with cross-functional stakeholders on longer-term projects to change our partnership models to cede power to the communities we work with, whilst balancing this against our charity law obligations.</li>
</ul><div><b>Cross-functional work</b></div><ul>
<li>Work with cross-functional stakeholders, including communications, policy and influencing, evaluation and the Executive Team to advise on cross-team collaboration, opportunities, issues and risks relating to our charitable partnerships.</li>
<li>Assist teams such as property, endowment and HR on their legal needs, including drafting, negotiating and agreeing documents and being the first port-of-call for a variety of legal issues.</li>
<li>Assist our fundraising team on a variety of issues, including drafting, negotiating and advising on a wide range of fundraising agreements.</li>
</ul><div><b>Governance and legal</b></div><ul>
<li>Work with the Foundation&rsquo;s Legal Director &amp; Company Secretary in advising colleagues on legal and governance matters.</li>
<li>Undertake research into specific legal issues or matters of best practice.</li>
<li>Identify need for, organise and run training sessions on key legal and compliance issues to Foundation staff.</li>
<li>Assist with supervision of the team&rsquo;s paralegal, leading on supervision of certain tasks.</li></ul><br>
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Skills, Knowledge and Expertise</b></h3><div><b><br>
Skills, abilities, and attributes:</b></div><ul>
<li>Legal research skills</li>
<li>Self-starter who is adaptable, works with integrity, and exhibits the Foundation&rsquo;s enterprising, collaborative and delivery-minded cultural and behavioural values</li>
<li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li>
<li>Detail oriented</li>
<li>Good interpersonal skills and able to effectively liaise with both internal and external communities</li>
<li>Problem solving skills, able to use initiative and actively seeks pragmatic solutions</li>
<li>Good planning and organisational skills, able to work to multiple prioritised tasks, targets and deadlines, with careful attention to detail</li>
<li>Team player, with an ability to create effective working relationships</li>
<li>Committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do</li>
</ul><div><b>Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:</b></div><div><b><i>
Essential</i></b></div><ul>
<li>Experience in drafting and reviewing commercial contracts.</li>
<li>Legal research skills.</li>
<li>Preparation of guidance notes and training materials.</li>
<li>Experience using the Microsoft Office suite.</li>
<li>Sound knowledge of the law of England and Wales.</li>
<li>Familiarity with commercial contracts and contract law.</li>
</ul><div><b><i>Desirable</i></b></div><ul>
<li>Experience in drafting and reviewing grant agreements</li>
<li>Sound working knowledge of intellectual property and data protection matters.</li>
<li>Familiarity with the charity sector and charity law</li>
<li>Some familiarity with basic financial and grants related terms and concepts.</li></ul><br>
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Benefits</b></h3><br>
<ul>
<li>
Up to 12% employer pension contributions</li>
<li>&pound;800 annual personal development budget</li>
<li>Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance of &pound;200</li>
<li>Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.</li>
<li>Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.</li>
<li>Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.</li>
<li>Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.</li>
<li>Shower facilities and bike lock area.</li>
<li>Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)</li>
<li>Subsidies for glasses</li>
<li>Employee Assistance Programme</li></ul><br>
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About Guy's &amp; St Thomas' Foundation</b></h3><div>
At Guy&rsquo;s and St Thomas&rsquo; Foundation, our mission is clear &ndash; to build the foundations of a healthier society.<br>
</div><div>As part of our team, including Impact on Urban Health and three NHS charity brands, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.<br>
</div><div>There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:</div><ul>
<li>how we approach recruitment</li>
<li>our team, culture and values</li>
<li>the benefits of working with us and</li>
<li>our approach to diversity, equity &amp; inclusion; health &amp; wellbeing; and learning &amp; development.</li></ul></div><div></div>

Description
The Legal and Governance team sits within the Operations directorate at the Foundation. We are a small, agile unit, looking to turn our hands at anything that comes our way to assist the organisation and our colleagues to achieve our charitable mission. As a team, our work covers a broad spectrum of legal and governance matters, from commercial contracts and grant agreements, to advising on intellectual property, charity law requirements around restricted funds, fundraising, campaigning and political activity through to commissioning and collating Board and committee meeting materials and company secretarial duties. This role is key to the development of our team and the work we do across the Foundation.
Key Responsibilities
Charitable partnerships (Impact on Urban Health)
Structure and assist colleagues with drafting and negotiate agreements for a wide variety of charitable partnerships, including commercial contracts, grants, IP licenses, novel investment models, revenue-sharing arrangements and data agreements.
Act as a thought partner with the team to advise on the structuring, legal risks and strategic implications of partnerships and future opportunities.
Maintain and appropriately file correspondence and documentation relating to commercial contracts.
Grants administration (Programmatic, Hospital funding and Special fund grants)
Advise colleagues, alongside the Grants Operations team, on the drafting and execution of grant agreements, including tailoring agreements for individuals, unincorporated groups and commercial entities and advising on IP ownership and commercialisation, indemnities, on-funding obligations and other queries.
Procedure and policy efficienciesDraft, maintain and update our internal guidelines, policies and standard-form documents.Create policy and process efficiencies.

Tailored partnerships
Consider legal considerations, and appropriate processes, for working with certain partners (e.g., regulatory, private gain, data protection, policy), including advising on due diligence procedures and tailoring our standard form templates.
Work with cross-functional stakeholders on longer-term projects to change our partnership models to cede power to the communities we work with, whilst balancing this against our charity law obligations.
Cross-functional work
Work with cross-functional stakeholders, including communications, policy and influencing, evaluation and the Executive Team to advise on cross-team collaboration, opportunities, issues and risks relating to our charitable partnerships.
Assist teams such as property, endowment and HR on their legal needs, including drafting, negotiating and agreeing documents and being the first port-of-call for a variety of legal issues.
Assist our fundraising team on a variety of issues, including drafting, negotiating and advising on a wide range of fundraising agreements.
Governance and legal
Work with the Foundation’s Legal Director & Company Secretary in advising colleagues on legal and governance matters.
Undertake research into specific legal issues or matters of best practice.
Identify need for, organise and run training sessions on key legal and compliance issues to Foundation staff.
Assist with supervision of the team’s paralegal, leading on supervision of certain tasks.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Skills, abilities, and attributes:
Legal research skills
Self-starter who is adaptable, works with integrity, and exhibits the Foundation’s enterprising, collaborative and delivery-minded cultural and behavioural values
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Detail oriented
Good interpersonal skills and able to effectively liaise with both internal and external communities
Problem solving skills, able to use initiative and actively seeks pragmatic solutions
Good planning and organisational skills, able to work to multiple prioritised tasks, targets and deadlines, with careful attention to detail
Team player, with an ability to create effective working relationships
Committed to embedding diversity, equity and inclusion in everything we do
Knowledge, experience, and qualifications:
Essential
Experience in drafting and reviewing commercial contracts.
Legal research skills.
Preparation of guidance notes and training materials.
Experience using the Microsoft Office suite.
Sound knowledge of the law of England and Wales.
Familiarity with commercial contracts and contract law.
Desirable
Experience in drafting and reviewing grant agreements
Sound working knowledge of intellectual property and data protection matters.
Familiarity with the charity sector and charity law
Some familiarity with basic financial and grants related terms and concepts.

Benefits


Up to 12% employer pension contributions
£800 annual personal development budget
Annual health and wellbeing personal allowance of £200
Enhanced maternity, paternity, and parental leave pay accessible without length of service requirements.
Health and wellbeing programme that offers optional free yearly health check-ups.
Support for healthy eating via fruit bowls and onsite lunch facilities.
Agile working, flexible hours, and supportive IT kit.
Shower facilities and bike lock area.
Generous annual leave (27 days + bank holidays)
Subsidies for glasses
Employee Assistance Programme

About Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation
At Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation, our mission is clear – to build the foundations of a healthier society.
As part of our team, including Impact on Urban Health and three NHS charity brands, you will work alongside talented people from a mix of personal and professional backgrounds. We are a Living Wage employer and support flexible working, part-time roles and job shares. Though our ambitions are serious, this is a friendly place to work with lots of opportunities to meet and socialise with colleagues. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.
There is more information about working with us on our website, where you can read about:
how we approach recruitment
our team, culture and values
the benefits of working with us and
our approach to diversity, equity & inclusion; health & wellbeing; and learning & development.

Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation

Mission