Office of Water Services (OFWAT)

The legal team is part of the Office of the Chief Executive, sitting alongside other cross cutting teams, such as the Chief Economist team, working across Ofwat to enable our regulatory work. We work with all Directorates in Ofwat, embedded in the policy teams' work, from enforcement to price control, to help evolve and deliver Ofwat's strategy, whilst navigating and managing legal risk. We pride ourselves on providing high quality, pragmatic, solutions-focussed advice, clearly, simply and concisely. With the opportunity to support work in a range of areas, you’ll develop a broad skillset including legal, analytical, communication, drafting, presentation, policy development and stakeholder engagement skills.    We will sponsor you through the solicitor apprenticeship programme. The SQE1 and SQE2 examinations are included in this apprenticeship.  Where you are successful in the programme and the examinations you will be a qualified solicitor at the end of the programme. Across our wider graduate programme, we offer rotational and static opportunities, which both provide the same learning, development and support. This is a static role within the legal team as you will need to attain qualifying work experience as part of the apprenticeship. Although a static role belonging to the legal team doing legal advice, that advice will involve working in an embedded way a variety of different policy teams covering a range of Ofwat’s work.