Senior Lawyer (Advisory)

Death Notification; Sydney; Híbrido; AUD 133.000 - 147.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Department of Customer Service in Sydney is seeking a Senior Lawyer (Advisory) for an ongoing full-time role based in Sydney CBD with hybrid working options. You will deliver independent, timely legal advisory services supporting strategic and regulatory reform.

Reporting to a Managing Lawyer, you will interpret legislation, provide pragmatic advice to diverse stakeholders, and prepare clear legal documentation while ensuring probity and ethical obligations are met.

Formación

• You hold a Bachelor of Laws or equivalent degree qualification.
• You are admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of NSW or eligible for a current practising certificate.
• Minimum of 5 years post-qualification in regulatory/admin law, information access/privacy law, public law or related areas.

Responsabilidades

• Provide independent, accurate and timely legal advisory services supporting strategic, operational and legislative priorities.
• Apply legal expertise across regulatory reform, advisory matters and administrative law.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to interpret and distil complex legal issues in documents and briefs.

Conocimientos

Stakeholder management

Communication

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Legal drafting

Educación

Bachelor of Laws

Descripción del empleo

Senior Lawyer (Advisory), Ongoing position available, based in Sydney + flexible working options available

Role: Senior Lawyer Advisory

Location: Sydney CBD; flexible working options available

Grade: Clerk Grade 09/10

Salary Range: $133,348 - $146,945+ super, commensurate with experience.

Employment Type: Ongoing opportunity. Full-Time

Exciting opportunity is available within the Regulator Advisory stream of our Department of Customer Service (DCS) Legal Division, predominantly working with the Building Commission NSW.

The DCS Legal team supports a range of portfolio business clients including Building Commission NSW, Digital.NSW, NSW Fair Trading, NSW Telco Authority, the Principal Department, SafeWork NSW, Service NSW, and the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA).

As a Senior Lawyer, Advisory (Grade 9/10), you will be responsible for providing independent, accurate and timely legal advisory services supporting the agency's strategic, operational, and legislative priorities. Reporting to one of our Managing Lawyers, you will apply your legal subject matter expertise across diverse areas of legislative and regulatory reform, legal advisory matters and administrative law.

• This is an ongoing opportunity available on a full-time basis. A talent pool may be created for future opportunities.
• Remuneration of $133,348 - $146,945+ super & leave loading, commensurate with experience.
• Based in Sydney CBD with hybrid working options available.

The person in this role will need to:

• Work collaboratively with other lawyers in the team in a dynamic environment to provide pragmatic, focused and defensible, risk-based legal services on a diverse range of specialist issues.
• Provide clear, concise legal advice and representation across a range of legislation administered by the Organisation including statutory interpretation, legislative interpretation and reform, administrative law and, legal frameworks underpinning government operations.
• Be adept at working with a variety of stakeholders to interpret and distil complex legal issues in the preparation of documents and other legal documentation to ensure that statutory, ethical, probity and other legal obligations are properly addressed.

About you:

• You are admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and hold or, are eligible to hold a current practising certificate as a solicitor.
• You have proven stakeholder management and communication capability, with an ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with stakeholders to support delivery outcomes. You are a client focused team player who can adapt to change and independently manage competing priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• You have strong analytical ability, lateral thinking, and problem-solving skills including an ability to apply legal principles in a practical way.

You hold a Bachelor of Laws or equivalent degree qualification and have a minimum of 5 years relevant post qualification in two or more of the following areas in either private, in-house corporate or government practice:

• Regulatory and/or administrative law
• Information access and privacy law
• Public law
• Interpretation and operation of legislation and legislative frameworks

Closing Date: Thursday 19th November at 11:59pm

Careers at Department of Customer Service

A career at the Department of Customer Service (DCS) gives you the opportunity to help improve government services and be part of reform that benefits people across NSW. We are focused on delivering excellent customer service, digital transformation, and regulatory reform. Come join us and influence the future of our great state.

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We are a team of more than 12,000 people, working together to provide services that improve the lives of our 8+ million customers across NSW. As a leading central service NSW Government agency, we are made up of over 30 agencies, entities and business units, which makes our work incredibly diverse.

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