Legal Costs Administrator

☞ National Youth Advocacy Service

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Update day: 11-06-2024

Location: Birkenhead North West

Category: Legal / Contracts

Industry: Non-profit NGO

Salary: £16,378 - £17,761 a year

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NYAS is the leading provider of advocacy and associated service across the UK. NYAS shares the opinion that every child or young person experiencing care should have the same chance to live happy, healthy and rewarding lives as their peers.

If you are looking for a rewarding role with an organisation that makes a difference to young people’s lives, we want to hear from you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Legal Costs Administrator to join our Legal Costs department to provide administrative support to the Law Cost Draftsman and Fee Earners in the billing process for Legal Aid cases, in order to maximise income return for the organisation.

You will assist the Law Costs Draftsman in liaising with Fee Earners and external costs drafting providers to ensure prompt production, review, and approval of bill of costs/claims. You will also be responsible for running the post-assessment procedure, involving transfer of information and figures onto relevant forms and further submission to Court/Legal Aid Agency (LAA)/Client and Cost Management.

For more information, please view the attached job description.

In your application, you will need to evidence, using specific examples, how your skills and experience meet the criteria laid out in the person specification, within the job description attached. Requirements include:

Previous experience of office administration.
Experience of working with a legal case management system.
Ability to maintain databases, financial procedures and practices as required.
Good numerical and statistical ability.
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.

In return for joining NYAS you will receive the following benefits:

26 days annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing to 30 days after 5 years
Company sick pay
Health care plan
Salary sacrifice pension contributions
Learning and development opportunities
Cycle to work scheme

NYAS operates robust safe procedures to ensure the protection of the children, young people and adults at risk we work with. To comply with NYAS’s Safeguarding and Child Protection Policy candidates will be subject to an enhanced DBS check, references and a Digital Risk Assessment.

NYAS is an equal opportunities employer.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early once we receive a high number of applications.
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Deadline: 26-07-2024

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