Paralegal

The legal team provides a comprehensive in-house legal service across all the Heritage Fund’s grant giving, corporate, regulatory and governance activities and across all areas of the UK. The primary purpose of this post is to work with and support the four in-house solicitors, the Director of Legal and Governance and Office coordinators. The Paralegal is exposed to a wide range of legal matters and issues with opportunities to learn and develop legal skills under the supervision of experienced legal colleagues.

Working together with the rest of the team, the Paralegal will support the continued development of the professional in-house service. This includes helping to take forward some exciting changes to our document handling and case management practice.

If you are excited about helping ensure that heritage is inclusive and accessible to everyone, for now and future generations, then we want to hear from you.

Applications close on 2 March 2025.

Interviews are expected to take place on 13 and 14 March 2025.

Please apply via our website.

Our Values

Our Values and Behaviours sit at the heart of our work and are central to how we recruit. How you demonstrate our Values is just as important to us as your skills and experience.

Inclusive of all aspects of heritage, people and communities

Ambitious for our people, communities and heritage

Collaborative by working and learning together

Trusted for our integrity, expertise and judgement

Flexible Working

The National Lottery Heritage Fund has offices all over the UK and we champion a flexible approach to working where this supports our business needs. We have formally adopted a hybrid working approach. This means that most employees will work from their contracted Heritage Fund office twice a week at minimum. Time spent on site visits to projects or other meetings based at another Heritage Fund or external office are counted as part of those two days. The other days in the week employees may work from home.

Disability Confident

About Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

The National Lottery Heritage Fund

As the largest funder for the UK’s heritage, our vision is for heritage to be valued, cared for and sustained for everyone, now and in the future.

We believe in the power of heritage to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to past.

Our mission is to use our expertise to support and champion the UK’s heritage and demonstrate the transformative potential of National Lottery funding through delivering our new strategy Heritage 2033. We ensure that money from the National Lottery makes a decisive difference for people, places and communities.

We are currently recruiting for a full time Paralegal on a permanent contract based in any of the Heritage Fund’s offices in the UK, able to sustain frequent travel to London (Hybrid Working).