Summary

What you'll do

As the Head of Legal (Transactions), you will lead the property transactions legal function within NHG's newly centralised Legal Services team. You will manage a specialist team delivering high-quality legal advice and support across acquisitions, disposals, leases, development agreements, shared ownership transactions, and commercial property matters.

Reporting into the Director of Legal, you'll play a key role in supporting NHG's sales and development ambitions by ensuring property transactions are managed efficiently, compliantly, and with a strong focus on risk management and value for money. You will act as a trusted adviser to senior stakeholders, providing pragmatic and commercially focused legal guidance across a broad range of property-related matters.

You'll also lead and develop a high-performing legal team, embedding a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and customer focus across the service.

How you'll do it

• Lead the provision of legal advice and support across acquisitions, disposals, development agreements, leases, commercial property, and shared ownership transactions.
• Provide expert legal guidance on title defects, restrictive covenants, easements, planning obligations, and building safety considerations.
• Manage and develop a team of solicitors and paralegals, creating a high-performance and collaborative culture.
• Oversee complex property transactions and support large-scale development projects across the organisation.
• Ensure non-complex legal work is delivered efficiently in-house, including staircasing, resales, remortgages, lease extensions, and property transfers.
• Develop and improve legal processes, procedures, and governance arrangements to ensure compliance and operational efficiency.
• Manage relationships with external solicitors and legal providers, ensuring value for money and high standards of service delivery.
• Deliver training and guidance to operational, sales, and development teams to strengthen legal awareness and self-service capability.
• Horizon scan legislative and regulatory developments relating to property, planning, and housing law, ensuring the organisation remains compliant and informed.
• Provide senior-level legal advice and support to stakeholders across NHG.

The ideal candidate

We believe great service starts with great people, and we are committed to recruiting and developing passionate, enthusiastic, and talented individuals who can add value to our thriving organisation.

Pending confirmation of legislative changes, this role may require a qualification to demonstrate competence. If not already qualified, there may be an expectation to study towards a professional qualification.

Essential:

• Qualified Solicitor of England and Wales with a valid Practising Certificate.
• Minimum 5 years PQE.
• Experience working within a social housing legal department, housing association, local authority, or private practice environment.
• Expert knowledge of property law, landlord and tenant legislation, planning law, shared ownership leases and transactions, and affordable housing frameworks.
• Strong leadership and people management experience.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
• Experience managing complex legal caseloads within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong commercial awareness with a focus on compliance and risk management.
• Proficiency using legal databases, case management systems, and Microsoft Office.
• Ability to deliver strategic, pragmatic, and customer-focused legal advice.

What's in it for you?

Once you join us, you'll find plenty of opportunities to grow within our organisation. You'll also have access to a wide range of learning opportunities to help you achieve and maximise your potential.

Benefits include:

• Excellent annual leave allowance and flexible working opportunities (qualifying period may apply)
• Generous pension scheme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption pay in addition to statutory entitlements (qualifying period may apply)
• Employee assistance - free confidential advice and counselling services provided by independent specialist organisations.
• Health cash plan
• Staff discounts - we give our staff access to discounts at hundreds of major retailers, gyms, restaurants, entertainment, days out, insurance, and much more.
• Interest free loans - season ticket loan, tenancy deposit loan, and training loan
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Life Assurance x 4 annual salary

All about us

Notting Hill Genesis is a not-for-profit organisation providing affordable homes for Londoners and it is now one of the largest housing associations in London. We are both a landlord and a developer, with more than 65,000 existing homes and 10,000 more in our pipeline and we employ around 1,800 employees.

For more information on what we do and what makes us different please visit:https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/

We welcome applications from everyone. We actively monitor the diversity of our workforce and strive to show equal representation throughout all levels of the organisation. We are a Stonewall Diversity Champion, a Disability Confident employer amongst other diversity commitments.

To find out more about our approach to equality, diversity and inclusion please visit: https://group.nhg.org.uk/careers/diversity-is-our-strength/

Selection Process

Step 1: If you are interested, please send your application now! Closing date is 14 June 2026.  

Step 2: Successful candidates will be asked to do an assessment  

Step 3: Successful candidates will be invited to interview  

Please apply for this role online. If you are not able to apply online or if you have any reasonable adjustment requirements arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our hiring team via .  

NHG reserves the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, so we advise you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.