SKETCH qLegal Project Officer

About the Role
The SKETCH programme  (Student Knowledge Exchange Through Community Hubs) is Queen Mary’s student knowledge exchange programme. It provides pro bono support to local individuals, businesses, entrepreneurs and social enterprises through activities such as workshops, training, advisory clinics and consultancy-style projects. These activities are delivered by Queen Mary students under the supervision of qualified professionals volunteering their time.

SKETCH brings together student knowledge exchange projects from across the university and is currently comprised of six ‘pillars’, including the QM Legal Advice Centre , qLegal , the Student Consultancy Project , qNomics , qTech  and the QM Social Venture Fund . The programme aims to expand to provide more opportunities for students, and in particular to deliver more interdisciplinary projects so students across schools collaborate to meet a client’s needs.

This role sits within the qLegal pillar, which is Queen Mary’s award-winning pro bono commercial law clinic providing free legal support to start-ups and entrepreneurs, situated within the postgraduate Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS). Now in its 11th year, qLegal runs a wide range of programmes including: a credit-bearing module for students to undertake as part of their master’s degree; and a Future of Law programme which includes Public Legal Education and Projects streams, the latter including SKETCH interdisciplinary projects.

Students cite qLegal as a reason they choose to study at CCLS as it offers them the chance to develop their professional skills working with real clients and alongside external practitioners.

About You
The successful candidate will have a Qualifying Law Degree (or equivalent qualification/experience). They would have excellent project management skills and experience and be able to manage multiple relationships with external stakeholders and students. They would have experience of project evaluation and be able to analyse and report on project data.

They would have excellent verbal and written communication skills, including presentation skills and the ability to communicate and influence with confidence and to develop strong working relationships across the university and externally.

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities including an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

Informal enquiries to Evie Edwards at [email protected] .