Prinicipal Legal Officer

2 weeks ago


Brisbane, Australia Peppercorn Recruitment Full time

Key roles that will give you exposure to the Executive
- Fantastic team doing great work for a Department that makes a difference
- Good work hours and flexibility / full WFH, escape those timesheets

**The company**:
This government department provides a significant contribution to the Queensland community. The legal function provides support across the organisation in providing legal, policy and regulatory advice across employment, disputes, commercial, property, administrative law, PI, workcover as well as coronial inquests.

**About the roles**:
The Department is seeking to recruit a number of roles at PO5 and PO6 level into its young, collegiate in-house legal team. The legal function is split into streams and these roles sit within the commercial stream. The roles offer the opportunity to be involved in the following:

- general commercial agreements work including leasing, IT contracts, MOU, procurement, service provider contracts etc;
- working with the Department to identify legal service gaps;
- developing close working relationships particularly with the procurement and finance functions;
- some general law advice; and
- some statutory interpretation and legislative advice work.

**Skills/Experience**:
We are looking for lawyers with:

- experience in commercial, property and/or government legal work
- 4-5+ years’ PAE preferred for a PO5 role and 6+ years’ PAE for PO6 roles;
- a desire to be challenged and learn something new every day from highly experienced lawyers;
- a pragmatic, solutions focussed approach with strong client engagement skills.

**Benefits**:
Awaiting you is:

- high quality, challenging work;
- initial 6 month contracts which if you enjoy the role and perform well will be offered as permanent;
- a supportive legal team of 10+ lawyers with a great General Counsel who focusses on your learning and development;
- flexible work arrangements including full work from home, hybrid working from home and in office arrangements + great work hours; and
- a competitive salary + govt. super + accrued time leave.



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