Managing Lawyer, Advisory

Managing Lawyer, AdvisoryOngoing opportunities, based in Sydney CBD + hybrid options

Role: Managing Lawyer, Advisory - multiple opportunities
Location:Based principally in Sydney CBD (McKell) near Central Station, with hybrid working arrangements available.
Grade:Clerk Grade 11/12
Salary Range:Base $149,739 - $173,174 per annum plus super
Employment Type:Multiple opportunities, ongoing, Full-Time

Are you a senior legal professional with a passion for public law, legislative reform, and strategic advisory work?

Exciting opportunities are available as a Managing Lawyer Advisory within the Legislation and Advice streams of our Department of Customer Service (DCS) Legal Division.
The DCS Legal team supports a diverse business portfolio including Service NSW, Revenue NSW, Digital.NSW, NSW Fair Trading, NSW Telco Authority, SafeWork NSW, the Building Commission NSW, Births, Deaths and Marriages, and the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA).

Reporting to either the Assistant General Counsel Legislation & Advice or, the Assistant General Counsel Regulator Advisory, our Managing Lawyers Advisory, lead and manage a team of lawyers in the provision of independent, accurate, timely and expert legal services that support the agency's strategic, operational, and legislative priorities.

You will be working in an interesting and fast paced regulatory environment, joining a passionate and motivated group of professionals providing legal advisory services on a broad range of matters, leveraging your proven skills and experience in statutory interpretation, administrative law, and legal frameworks underpinning government operations.

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 can manage competing deadlines and priorities. You will also be adept at creating and fostering high-performing teams.

The person in this role will need to:

• Provide operational management of a team of advisory lawyers with a variety of career experience fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous development.
• Provide guidance on statutory interpretation, legislative reform, administrative law and, legal frameworks underpinning government operations, leveraging your own extensive career experience.
• Work collaboratively with customers and key stakeholders across legislative projects, ensuring legal compliance, sound governance, and the achievement of strategic objectives.
• Deliver legal services in a dynamic and complex working environment of competing priorities while delivering practical, defensible, risk based legal services on a diverse range of specialist issues

About You:

• You will hold Bachelor of Laws or equivalent degree qualification and have relevant post qualification experience as a lawyer.
• You are admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and hold a current NSW Practising Certificate.
• You will have strong analytical ability, lateral thinking and problem-solving skills including strong negotiation, advocacy and stakeholder management capability.
• You can confidently manage legal risk prioritising time sensitive matters, handling large volumes of work and managing deadlines.
• You will have strong experience in managing and developing people including a diverse team of lawyers at different stages of their career.
• Experience in working for government departments/agencies as an external adviser or inhouse lawyer would be desirable.

What we need from you:
To start your journey towards becoming one of our Managing 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 for future opportunities.

For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Sandy Anderson via sandy.anderson@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.

Visit the Capability Application Tool to prepare for the recruitment process by accessing practice application and interview questions based on the focus capabilities listed in the role description.

Closing Date: Monday 28th July 2025 @ 10am

Salary Grade 11/12, with the base salary for this role starting at $149,739 base plus superannuation

Click Here to access the Role Description . For enquiries relating to recruitment please contact Sandy Anderson via sandy.anderson@customerservice.nsw.gov.au.

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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The strength of our workforce lies in its diversity and embracing difference, while the key to our success is leveraging the contributions of employees with different backgrounds and perspectives.

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We want you to bring your best self to this application process. If you have any support or access needs that may require adjustments to allow you to fully participate in this selection process (including an alternate format of the application form) please contact sandy.anderson@customerservice.nsw.gov.au or 02 9494 8351.

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