Salary
Period of appointment
Job description
Protecting Northern Ireland’s energy and water consumers today and tomorrow is what we do.
This is an exciting time to join us. We are expanding as an organisation to fully support Northern Ireland in meeting the challenges of climate change, the continued cost-of-living crisis and ensuring the continuity of energy and water supplies.
Electricity, gas and water are essential services that support all homes and businesses in Northern Ireland. As an economic regulator, it is our role to enable, incentivise and hold energy and water companies to account for providing the very best levels of service and price for consumers both now and in the future.
Senior Legal Advisor
Working within the Chief Executive Office, the Senior Legal Advisor will be expected to provide clear, concise and timely legal advice in response to requests for advice on matters relating to any aspect of the Utility Regulator’s extensive statutory remit. Such matters will include modifications required to regulatory licences and codes; transposition and implementation of European Directives in so far as they relate to electricity, gas and water; interpretation of energy and water law; advising on the determination of regulatory complaints and disputes and enforcement action in accordance with statutory requirements (where there has been a suspected breach of a licence or other legal requirement); and advising on corporate issue and public law matters.
General information
Northern Ireland continues to have an under-representation of women across STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industries. We are proud to support women in STEM. We are an equal opportunity and ‘Disability Confident’ employer. As people with a disability and people from ethnic minority communities are currently under-represented in our workforce, we would welcome applications from these groups
We offer an attractive package including a competitive starting salary with stepped increases per annum, alongside a range of other benefits including hybrid working, NI Civil Service pension arrangements and 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 days after two years) and an additional 12 public and privilege days.
Contact us at recruitment@uregni.gov.uk if you would like to talk to someone about the work we do and what it's like working here.