Legal Director

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Serco Full time

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Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

Benefits

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

Serco is a place where you can grow

Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across Asia Pacific (APAC) and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

Benefits

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

Central Sydney CBD location for easy commuting and collaboration

  • Flexible work arrangements that support your lifestyle
  • Strong commitment to inclusion, safety and belonging
  • Long-term, stable government-backed contracts
  • Access to diverse and meaningful projects across public sectors
  • A workplace that values your voice and expertise

Make an impact at Serco

We're looking for an experienced and commercially minded Employment Lawyer to join our high-performing Legal and Risk team in Sydney. In this newly structured role, you'll lead the delivery of strategic and consistent employment law advice across all operational business units in the Asia Pacific. You'll be instrumental in managing workplace compliance, employment litigation, and industrial relations matters—helping Serco meet its commitments under the Fair Work Act and relevant industrial instruments.

As a Legal Director – Employment in the Legal and Risk team, you'll make a positive impact by:
  • Managing legal responses and representation in employment law forums such as the FWC, FWO, and AHRC
  • Providing expert advice on Enterprise Agreements, Modern Awards, and employment contracts
  • Supporting investigations, complaints, and regulatory inquiries (e.g. WorkSafe, Comcare)
  • Advising on employment contract templates, wages compliance and legal risks in customer bids
  • Partnering with internal stakeholders and HR to ensure legally sound workplace practices
  • Leading communication on employment law changes across the business

Serco is a place for you

To Be Successful In This Role You'll Have
  • 8–10+ years' experience as an Employment Lawyer with FWC and regulatory experience
  • A Bachelor of Laws and an Unrestricted Practicing Certificate
  • Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply the Fair Work Act and related instruments
  • Strong interpersonal and written communication skills
  • Proven experience advising senior stakeholders on complex workplace matters
  • A proactive, self-driven approach and comfort working autonomously

In joining us, you'll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world's most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you'll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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