Careers Legal Counsel- International Education

This is an opportunity for you to join Legal & Business Affairs (L&BA), an approachable team which empowers the business to make effective and ethical choices and is enthusiastic about operational excellence to help us continually improve the way we support Cambridge. We are a large yet close-knit team that supports each other, enjoys solving problems, and loves changing the way our colleagues think about Legal, Business Ethics and Compliance. We are seeking 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. And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that is linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help give you the resources and training you will need to be bold and take ownership of what you do. 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 is a key part of the International Education legal team in Legal & Business Affairs, providing support to the global International Education product group on a wide range of matters. You would get to work on a broad range of matters, both contractual and advisory and contentious and non-contentious, with great colleagues. No day in the International Education legal team is the same and the role offers a really varied caseload due to the changing nature of our business, the variety of the products and services that fall within the International Education product group - including the delivery of high-stakes examinations, international publishing, and advice to governments on education reform - and the international reach of our work (we provide services to over 10,000 schools worldwide in over 160 countries in 9 regions) as part of a global organisation with offices in over 50 countries. Further, working with Cambridge will also give 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. In addition, you will be entitled to our health care benefits with coverage for dependents, group life insurance, and robust wellbeing programmes right from the first day of joining us. We also care about the world around us. We were a founding catalyst member of Lawyers for Net Zero, and a member of LawWorks (a UK charity working to connect volunteer lawyers with people in need of legal advice, who are not eligible for legal funding), as well as having our own Wellbeing and Green groups within the department and being key contributors to the organisation's sustainability strategy. What will you do in this role? In this role, you will report to the Assistant General Counsel - International Education. You will provide legal advice and support to colleagues in our International Education product group as well as to colleagues in other shared services teams, including Finance and Tax. You will focus on being commercial and proactive, developing strong working relationships across the shared functions and wider business., Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Documents

• FINAL JD - Legal Counsel -Internationl Education Nov 24 (Draft 22.11.24).pdf (121.88 KB)
  
  We are looking for a commercial lawyer (ideally with some privacy experience) to come and help us support our global International Education business with pragmatic, commercial legal advice. If you are, or have been, a member in good standing of the bar in at least one U.S. jurisdiction or have previous experience of working in the US this would be a bonus (but is not essential)., We don't mind which university you went to or where you trained. While we give an indication in the job description of desired experience in relevant roles as a guide, we're 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. You show us how you balance your ethical responsibilities with your commitment to helping colleagues - it's a fine line which we pride ourselves on being good at navigating, and we're always keen to learn from colleagues. Along with sound legal skills, you will communicate effectively, providing expert guidance at a time and in a way that enables business colleagues to achieve their objectives. Whatever you are working on, you will be able to deliver your own initiatives and projects in a way that inspires confidence, as well as 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, when advising on a wide variety of day-to-day matters.

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 will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes