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Senior Lawyer (Advisory)

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JOB.TITLE, 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 What we need from you: To start your journey towards becoming one of our Senior Advisory Lawyers, please submit a covering letter (maximum two pages) and an up-to-date resume of no more than five pages which clearly details your skills and experience as relevant to this position. In your cover letter, please share your motivation for applying for this position. A talent pool may be created to fill future ongoing or temporary opportunities.

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