Paralegal - 12 month FTC

As a Legal Officer within the Legal Team at Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water you will be working with legal colleagues and using your developing legal skills to support operational colleagues to address leakage on the water network. Your responsibilities will include:

• Corresponding and negotiating with customers and third parties with a view to them voluntarily addressing leakage/water wastage on the part of the water network for which they are responsible.
• Managing a large volume of matters through a case management process.
• Advising on Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's statutory powers and responsibilities in relation to addressing water leakage
• Investigating and advising on responsibility for land, property, and pipework
• Supporting in-house solicitors to exercise Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water's formal legal powers in respect of leakage when necessary
• Utilise precedent documents to draft basic legal agreements
• Undertaking legal research and gathering information from a variety of sources for the purposes of providing advice
• Accounting to business stakeholders for the progression of work
Who you'll work with Internal
• Solicitors
• Other Legal Officers
• Operational colleagues
External
• Welsh Water Customers
• The Courts
  
  A relevant degree, professional qualification, or experience in a similar role
• Able to communicate clearly and professionally
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Confidence to have challenging conversations with customers and to deal with conflict
• Highly organised with the ability to manage multiple deadlines
• Flexible and willing to play your part in a friendly and supportive team
  
  Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.
To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision. This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them. The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company's required security objectives. We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve. In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:
• Variable pay schemes (your salary will always stay the same, but depending on the performance of the company you could receive a yearly bonus)
• Enhanced employer pension contributions - Up to 11% employer contributions
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
• Cycle to work scheme
• Car-leasing scheme
• Health CashBack scheme
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.