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Team Leader Legal Affairs

OverijsselHybrid36 hours/week<3months

Societal challenges are becoming more complex and require more coherence, predictability, and integral collaboration.

A government organization is in a transition period where a renewed course, a new governance model, and a different vision on business operations & control must be secured.
Within the organization, there is a need for more coherence, better collaboration, more predictability, and clearer quality assurance.
Legal expertise is currently organized in various places within the organization.
An important part of the assignment is to map the legal chain and to propose how to organize it more efficiently and effectively, including the further professionalization of the legal function.
Key components include strengthening professional ownership, improving coordination within legal processes and chains, and reducing dependence on individuals.
In addition to this assignment, regular issues within Legal Affairs include the quality and predictability of advice, workload distribution and prioritization, and mutual coordination and collaboration with other departments.
Legal Affairs is temporarily managed by two team leaders; this assignment concerns the clusters 'legal advice' (1st and 2nd line) and 'insurance & liability'.

What you do

Lead approximately 15 legal professionals.
Be responsible for daily management and personnel issues.
Bring structure and calm to the team through clear work distribution and prioritization.
Support professionals in organizing their work and mutual coordination.
Stimulate ownership, collaboration, and professional responsibility.
Contribute to strengthening the quality, collaboration, and predictability of advice.
In collaboration with relevant stakeholders, based on a clear analysis of the current fragmentation of legal expertise, propose how to improve the legal chain.
Ensure the further professionalization of the legal function.
Examine the positioning of legal expertise within the organization.
Examine the collaboration between legal clusters and organizational units.
Examine the setup and integration of legal support within processes and chains.
Examine differences in working methods, quality, and advice.
Examine ownership and quality assurance.
Examine possibilities to further strengthen collaboration, predictability, and professionalism.
The goal is to arrive at a concrete and supported proposal for the further organization and positioning of the legal function, fitting the organizational development and the vision on business operations & control.

A strong leader with extensive experience in similar change assignments in the legal domain.
Accustomed to managing legal professionals in a complex environment.
Understands the dynamics of professional and content-driven teams.
Can provide direction without taking over all content themselves.
Brings structure and clarity.
Dares to make choices and express expectations.
Can deal with resistance and divergent interests.
Knows how to create movement in an environment where change and professionalization are needed.
Experience within a legal context is important, but a purely content-driven specialist is explicitly not sought.
Helps professionals to sustainably organize responsibility, collaboration, and quality.
Able to realize a change assignment based on broad support.

What they ask

Demonstrable completed education at a minimum of WO (university) level.
Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a manager within a government institution.
Demonstrable work experience with change, professionalization, or development assignments within organizations, with concrete examples in work experience.
Demonstrable work experience with providing legal advice, with concrete examples in work experience.
A short personal motivation on how movement was created in previous change assignments.

Preferences.

Demonstrable work experience with change, professionalization, or development assignments within organizations, with concrete examples in work experience.
Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience as a manager of a legal team.
Demonstrable work experience in the legal domain as an advisor or lawyer.
Demonstrable completed education at WO (university) level in a legal field.
Minimum of 3 years demonstrable work experience in the past 10 years as a manager within a government institution.

Competencies.

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