WOO Lawyer
What you will do.
- Coordinate the Woo process within the organization
- Increase awareness of the Woo process within the organization
- Manage the applicable process agreements and associated manuals and formats for the organization
- Provide legal advice to the organization on relevant laws and regulations
- Independently handle Woo requests from A to Z (intake, delimitation, information request, assessment, and decision-making)
- Legally review documents for disclosure, including the application of refusal grounds
- Draft legally sound (concept) decisions and corresponding justifications
- Coordinate with internal stakeholders (lawyers and content employees) regarding the provision and interpretation of information
- Monitor deadlines and progress per file and meticulously build and record files
- Conduct objection and/or (higher) appeal procedures
Profile
The department consists of approximately 30 colleagues and is led by a department head and a team manager. The department comprises four clusters: legal, procurement, subsidies, and research & statistics. Within the department, there is an open and collegial working atmosphere where colleagues easily find each other. Both the organization and the department are undergoing significant development. This requires the ability to provide direction within a changing environment.
Together, we are building a future-proof department where collaboration, professionalism, and ownership are central. The professional participates in regular work meetings, reports to the client or a supervisor, and works within the applicable work agreements, planning, and frameworks for the results to be delivered. In addition, the activities are carried out in a team, with coordination and collaboration with colleagues forming an important part of the assignment.
What they ask
- Minimum 3 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years with independently handling Woo requests from intake to decision-making
- Minimum 2 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 5 years with legal advice on Woo/Wob and disclosure issues within a government organization
- Demonstrable work experience with legally assessing documents for disclosure and applying exception and refusal grounds
- Candidate agrees to the stated secondment condition
Wishes.
- Demonstrable work experience with coordinating a Woo process within a government organization, including process, file, and deadline monitoring, and stakeholder alignment
- Demonstrable work experience with developing, managing, or updating Woo process agreements, work instructions, manuals
- Minimum 5 years of demonstrable work experience in the past 8 years with legal advice on the Woo and/or Wob within a government organization
Competencies.
- Independent
- Results-oriented
- Communicative
- Analytical
- Collaborative
- Administratively sensitive
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