Associate - Corporate Real Estate (Education)

We're looking for an Associate to join our Corporate Real Estate - Education team and provide expert commercial property support to a growing portfolio of high-profile education sector clients., As an Associate in our Corporate Real Estate - Education team, you'll provide commercial property support within our expanding property department, working with a mixture of high-profile clients from the education sector. You'll primarily be dealing with the property aspects of schools' conversion to Academy status, Academy mergers and reorganisations, and general property work in the education sector.What you'll be doing

• Advising clients to a high standard of technical competence across a broad range of commercial property matters, while developing responsibility for running your own caseload.
• Assisting senior members of the team with more complex transactions, supporting the delivery of exceptional client service in line with our core client care principles.
• Undertaking legal research on your own initiative and providing marketing support, including writing copy and reports, updating literature, and identifying networking opportunities.
  
  Excellent legal drafting skills with the ability to provide clear, concise and commercially relevant solutions, combined with a genuine interest in the education sector and a commitment to furthering your knowledge within it.
• A team player with high levels of personal commitment and initiative, who is flexible, ambitious, results-oriented, and has a proven track record of taking responsibility for developing business and achieving targets.
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and a commercial approach, alongside excellent communication and negotiation skills, enabling you to establish and maintain professional relationships with clients and colleagues.
  
  We offer a flexible and hybrid working model. Our comprehensive benefits package includes private medical insurance, pension contributions, an employee assistance programme, and a range of wellbeing initiatives. Enhanced parental leave is also available, reflecting our commitment to supporting you through every stage of your career and life.
Many of our people work flexibly in some way and we're open to considering how we can accommodate flexible working arrangements alongside role requirements. If this is important to you, please talk to us about it during the recruitment process. We strive to create meaningful personal and professional development opportunities and offer flexible working in support of a good work-life balance. We focus on wellbeing and individuality, so that all our people can thrive. We celebrate diversity and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, social economic background or age. We're a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.