Assistant Corporate Counsel

3 weeks ago

Sydney, Australia Jensen Hughes Full time

Overview:
Jensen Hughes is seeking an ambitious, results-oriented, self-starter with a positive attitude and a collaborative mentality to join our legal team as a **Assistant Corporate Counsel**. The role reports to our US General Counsel and is a highly visible position with the opportunity to grow and develop global business strategies while providing high-quality legal support to our engineers, consultants and analysts that serve our clients in making our world safe, secure and resilient. This position is remote and may be located in Sydney - hybrid working available.

**Responsibilities**:

- Draft, review and negotiate various commercial contracts with clients, vendors, and business partners, including master services agreements, RFP responses, commercial leases and vendor agreements.
- Assist with general transaction work involving intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, compliance, and privacy matters.
- Support the development and implementation of strategies, policies, and procedures within the Legal department infrastructure.
- Support corporate governance matters including drafting board meeting minutes and resolutions for Jensen Hughes subsidiaries and affiliates worldwide.
- Support human resource business partners and operations leaders by providing general legal advice on various employment law matters and immigration, including assessing legal risks and opportunities.
- Support global claims management matters.
- Research and provide legal updates on industry-related legislation in all applicable jurisdictions.
- Manage outside counsel on matters as needed.
- Other duties as assigned by the General Counsel.

Qualifications:

- 5 years of general practice experience as an attorney with a law firm or in-house counsel generalist role. Employment, immigration and/or corporate transactional experience preferred.
- Excellent legal research and writing skills
- Ability to communicate complex legal concepts to nonlegal partners up and down the corporate chain
- Strong problem solving skills, project management and business acumen
- Ability to work well under pressure
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision, function autonomously and take initiative.
- Approachable, flexible and adaptable to change in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work across domestic and global time zones.
- Experience in a Building Construction or Professional Services Industry highly regarded.

**Company Overview**

Joining the Group

You will be rewarded with a fun, flexible and team-based environment where our core values of People, Integrity, Performance, and Accountability are at the forefront of everything we do. Our people say so too - we are a Great Place to Work certified for a second year running. This role comes packed with perks including a hybrid flexible working model, learning and development opportunities (financial study support), modern and collaborative workspace, team bonding activities, an employee reward program, additional grant days of leave, access to our employee assistance program and so many more other benefits awaiting you as an employee of Jensen Hughes

If you are looking to take the next step in your career and want to be part of a rapidly growing, dynamic organisation we would love to hear from you #PLILI1

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