Paralegal, APAC and Latin America

Based in Sydney, this permanent part time (20 hours per week) opportunity will provide you exposure to in-house paralegal work, supporting senior lawyers in a unique and varied role.

Our legal team is a close knit and high performing team. We have a proven track record of investing and developing our Paralegals and are confident that this opportunity will provide you with the tools and skills required to develop your career as a lawyer.

Whilst no two days are the same, here are some of your areas of responsibility:

1. Support the APAC and Latin America legal team to develop compliance policies and procedures.
   Perform legal research and analysis of legal issues across APAC and Latin America.
2. Review, draft and revise a range of commercial contracts (including, but not limited to, confidentiality agreements, consultancy arrangements and service agreements).
3. Support the review of promotional materials across APAC and Latin America.
4. Provide litigation support to the APAC and Latin America legal and compliance functions.
5. Assist with due diligence when the business is entering a new foreign market in the APAC and Latin America regions and/or when appointing a new third party business partner.
6. Maintain company secretarial records for all subsidiaries across APAC and Latin America.
7. Manage workflow for the legal and compliance function, including opening new files, closing files and entering data into the file management system.

About You:
As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality hearing solutions to our customers. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

1. Bachelor of Laws student (in second or third year) with a distinction average.
2. Availability to work 20 hours a week with two full working days and one-half day (Tuesday to Thursday).
3. Some experience working as a paralegal or within a similar professional environment.

Working for Cochlear:
This is a great opportunity for a passionate law student to start their career within an in-house environment. You will join a strong, supportive legal team with a high emphasis on mentoring as well as both career and personal development. You will play a key role in supporting the legal and compliance function to facilitate the strategic vision of Cochlear APAC and Latin America.

1. The Work - A high impact job supporting world leading technology.
2. The Organisation – A global leader in active implantable medical device hearing technology.
3. The Opportunity – To make a difference to the quality of people's lives.

Cochlear Summary
Cochlear's mission is to help people hear and be heard. Around the world, more people chose a Cochlear-branded hearing implant system than any other. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping people hear. Cochlear is the global market leader in implantable hearing solutions including cochlear implant systems (CI) and bone anchored hearing aids (Baha Systems).

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.
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At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. We offer flexible working arrangements, and we understand flexibility is not the same for everyone. We're open to a conversation about what flexibility means for you.

Based in Sydney, Cochlear was formed in 1981 with finance from the Australian government to commercialise the implants pioneered by Dr Graeme Clark.