2 x Litigation Delivery Managers

About the Government Legal Department

From healthcare to artificial intelligence, energy to national security, we provide legal advice to government departments on nation-changing subjects.

At Government Legal Department we have a vital, single-minded purpose: to help the Government govern well within the rule of law. This is complemented by our exciting vision to be an outstanding legal organisation, committed to the highest standards of service and professionalism and a brilliant place to work where we can all thrive and fulfill our potential.

Our work touches almost every aspect of public life. We are the largest provider of legal services across government, working on high profile matters.

Our respected professionals are involved in everything from regulation and litigation to advice on drafting legislation. They provide expertise to the full range of government departments. We are at the heart of delivering the governments priorities and our success depends on our people.

GLD is a non-ministerial government department headed by the Treasury Solicitor, our Permanent Secretary, and employs nearly 4000 people, including nearly 3000 legal professionals. We have offices nationwide, in Bristol, Leeds, inner and outer London and Manchester. Our lawyers can also be located within other departments and overseas.

GLD also depends on a range of cross-functional professionals to provide our corporate services. There are nearly 1000 colleagues playing an essential part in helping GLD to achieve its purpose and truly deliver much more than law.

This is an exciting time to join GLD, with cutting edge legal work on global issues and a transformation agenda which is ensuring the Department exemplifies the Modern Civil Service .

To find out more about what we do you can view our introductory film . On our website y ou can hear from team members, find out how to apply and learn about the benefits of working for GLD. You can also read more about the future vision for GLD in our GLD Strategy 2024 2027 .

About the Litigation Delivery Teams

Litigation Delivery plays a vital role in supporting our client teams and expert services across the Litigation Directorate.

Government decisions are increasingly under scrutiny, with legal challenges arising from issues such as military action overseas, immigration policy, welfare reform, climate change, and energy policy. These cases often make headlines and involve matters of constitutional importance.

Our Litigation Directorate handles a wide range of high-profile public law cases, including judicial reviews in areas such as justice, health, defence, immigration, planning, and national security, as well as supporting the Governments ambitious reform agenda.

We also manage substantial private law litigation for major Government departments, including the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) and Ministry of Defence (MOD). This work covers complex group actions, claims under the ECHR, personal injury, clinical negligence, misfeasance in public office, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution.

Litigation Delivery Teams:

Litigation Delivery Teams (LDT) play a vital role in providing administrative and operational litigation support to key business areas across GLD. Each business area is supported by its own Litigation Delivery Team, comprising of Litigation Support Officers (LSOs) and Litigation Support Assistants (LSAs) led by a Litigation Delivery Manager. These teams form part of GLDs wider legal support community of over 200 professionals, delivering high-quality administrative services that enable legal teams to manage cases efficiently and meet business priorities .

Youll collaborate as part of a dynamic team, adapt to changing priorities, and help drive projects to completion within tight deadlines.

This role offers the chance to build confidence in managing a wide range of complex administrative tasks and gain a deep understanding of how Government Litigation operates in practice.

This is an exciting time to join the Litigation directorate with significant opportunities for growth and development as we support some of the most high-profile and impactful cases in Government.

The Role

We are recruiting for Litigation Delivery Managers (LDMs) within our Legal Delivery Teams (LDTs) across Litigation Directorate. The role offers an exciting opportunity to operate in a wide-ranging, strategic role that provides interesting and challenging work, along with developmental opportunities. It would particularly suit those looking to enhance their organisational design and change management skills. The posts will involve working closely with Directors, Deputy Directors and a Legal Directorate/team. Teams can vary in size. All roles are within our LDTs and do not include any legal or paralegal work.

The successful candidate will work to a Senior Delivery Manager (SDM), ensuring that risks to the delivery of team/divisional objectives are identified, managed or escalated appropriately, and may also deputise in their absence. The Litigation Delivery Manager will have direct line management responsibility of the EO Litigation Support Officers (LSOs) and AO Litigation Support Assistants (LSAs) and will lead the team in delivering a high performing admin service across the Directorate. The post holder will operate with a high degree of personal autonomy in their area and will be expected to deliver all aspects of the role with limited supervision.

This is an exciting opportunity to undertake a fast-paced, challenging, varied and important role, providing day-to-day support to the leadership teams and legal teams.

Key responsibilities:

• Line management for LSOs and where applicable LSAs, following the matrix management model.
• To undertake the effective induction and on-boarding of new staff in line with corporate objectives.
• To oversee the management of systems and processes within the team, identifying and delivering on efficiency savings.
• To have general oversight of EOs in supportive roles to Director and DDs, ensuring effective cover where necessary.
• To highlight, organise, and where appropriate deliver any learning and development opportunities for the admin team.
• To actively participate and engage in regular management meetings with the DD and the Leadership team.
• To actively participate in the networking groups, sharing and seeking best practice.
• Undertake any project/workstream managements as directed by DD or SDM
• To engage and participate in the decision making on spend within the admin team.
• To meet chargeable hours target.
• To review performance of each person within the admin team to assess progress against chargeable hours target, identifying any performance concerns, and putting into place supportive measures where necessary.
• To effectively performance manage all staff within line management structure, ensuring any staff or conduct issues are monitored and managed appropriately.
• To provide support to SDM, TLs and Head of Division, ensuring that risks to delivery of team/division business objectives and priorities are identified and managed.
• To provide client reporting support to SDM, including leading on data collation for GLD monthly client report & internal monthly report.
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