Legal Administrator

Our Legal team is growing! We have an exciting new opportunity for a Legal Administrator to join our inhouse Legal team, based in our central Birmingham office, on a full-time permanent basis. Within this role, the focus is to deliver a customer focussed legal service, and, primarily, to support the team in defending Disrepair legal claims. You'll join a small team of Disrepair Administrators providing support across a range of administrative tasks for the Housing Legal Disrepair Legal Team, using a high level of organisation and accuracy. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Preparing high-quality correspondence and legal documents for our Solicitors and legal case workers for day-to-day management of cases and in preparation for court.
• Monitoring cases and ensuring that all statutory and internal deadlines are met effectively.
• Maintaining inboxes, diaries and trackers.
• Processing invoices and arranging payments. Our ideal candidate? This role would suit a personable individual who is highly organised and enjoys working as part of a team. You'll also demonstrate the following skills and experience:
• Previous administrative experience - this could be within a legal or similarly a regulated setting, and might include preparing bundles, drafting letters, diary management for a team of professionals, managing inboxes, and responding to stakeholder queries and enquiries
• Experience of using Excel and/or case management systems to manage spreadsheets, trackers and to input and manage data.
• Ability to develop strong professional relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Knowledge of Disrepair cases and/or legal principals or of housing is beneficial but not essential. Due to the nature of the administrative support required by the Disrepair Legal team, you can expect to the working from our Birmingham, Bath Row office alongside our Solicitors/Legal Assistants at least 3 days for full time and 2 days per week part time, with some scope to work from home for the remaining working days. Who are Midland Heart? We're a large and ambitious housing organisation providing more people an affordable place to call home. We welcome people from every walk of life, at every stage of their career. We expect a lot from our people but in return you can be assured of a great place to work, where you will be well rewarded and where great people are able to succeed. Whether you want to build your career with us, or use your experience to move on, we're here to develop your potential. We are proud to say we have recently been named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work list, within the Big Organisations category (The Times). Interested? Click on "Candidate Information" below for a full Role Profile. Applying is easy - simply register on our candidate portal uploading a CV and Covering Letter, which show us that you have what it takes to make a success of the role. Please be aware we are unable to accept applications without a Cover Letter. Closing date for receipt of completed applications is midnight on Tuesday 6th October. Please be advised that we reserve the right to close applications prior to this date, depending on the volume of applications received. Recruitment Agencies: Midland Heart only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our Resourcing team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid. Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Midland Heart will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.