Senior Lawyer

Senior Lawyer, Ongoing opportunity based in Sydney CBD, with flexible/hybrid options available.

Role: Senior Lawyer, Commercial & Digital

Location: Based principally in Sydney CBD, flexible working options available

Grade: Clerk Grade 09/10

Salary Range: $125,693 - $138,510+ plus superannuation

Employment Type: Ongoing, Full-Time

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Lawyer has become available in the Commercial & Digital stream of the Department of Customer Service (DCS) Legal Division. You will be joining a passionate and motivated group of professionals providing independent and robust legal advice and legal services.

The DCS Legal team supports a range of diverse entities including Service NSW, Revenue NSW, Digital.NSW, Fair Trading, the Telco Authority, SafeWork, the Building Commission NSW, Births, Deaths and Marriages, and the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA).

As a Senior Lawyer in DCS Commercial & Digital Legal, you will be responsible for providing quality, strategic and pragmatic advice on a broad range of commercial contracts, privacy, cyber security, artificial intelligence, ICT, information access and digital matters across DCS portfolio businesses. The role also provides opportunities to contribute to whole of government projects and inter-agency initiatives.

Reporting to one of our Managing Lawyers or Directors, you will apply your legal subject matter expertise to provide legal services on a range of matters and projects working in an interesting and dynamic environment. The right applicant will use their initiative, adapt to change, be client focused and able to develop innovative solutions. To be successful in this role it is essential that you are a motivated and effective communicator with great initiative, who can work with diverse clients, other lawyers, and manage competing deadlines and priorities.

• This is an ongoing opportunity. A talent pool may be created for future opportunities.
• Remuneration of $125,693 - $138,510+ super & leave loading, commensurate with experience.
• Based in Sydney CBD with flexible/hybrid working options available.

The professional in this role will need to:

• Provide strategic, pragmatic, focused and accountable specialist legal advice and strategy across a range of areas covering ICT, corporate, commercial and regulatory.
• Interpret and distil complex legal issues for the business in the preparation of documents including advice, submissions, briefing notes, deeds, agreements and other contractual documentation.
• Advise, draft, review and negotiate a range of commercial agreements including for software acquisition/licensing, product development and intellectual property in information technology and cloud service delivery.
• Review policies and other proposals, to ensure that statutory, ethical, probity and other legal obligations are properly addressed.

The Key Requirements for the role include:

• Admission as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales with relevant experience. You must hold an Australian Practising Certificate under the Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW).
• Excellent stakeholder management, interpersonal and communication skills with an ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with key stakeholders across all levels of the organisation and government to support optimal service delivery outcomes.
• Strong analytical ability, lateral thinking and problem-solving skills including an ability to apply legal principles in a practical way.

You will need to have demonstrated post qualification experience in one or more of the following areas in either private, in-house corporate or government practice:

• Corporate and Commercial law
• Intellectual Property (IP) law
• Trade practices law
• Administrative law
• Information access and privacy law

What we need from you:

To start your journey towards becoming one of our Senior 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 and your relevant skills.

Salary Grade 9/10, with the base salary for this role starting at $125,693 base plus superannuation.

Closing Date: 10am Monday 28th April

Careers at Department of Customer Service
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