Senior Legal Counsel

2 weeks ago


Footscray, Victoria, Australia Greater Western Water Limited Full time

About the Role

The Senior Legal Counsel will provide trusted and practical legal advice across the business, encompassing a broad range of practice areas including contracts, construction, commercial law, and statutory interpretation.

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced practitioner to work in an autonomous environment that is inclusive and supportive and provides opportunity to mentor junior practitioners.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide authoritative legal advice to the business, including at Executive leadership level on complex legal issues, identify emerging legal issues and provide specialist expertise particularly in construction and infrastructure delivery.
  • Provide strategic and practical legal support across a diverse range of services including contractual drafting and negotiation, managing complex disputes and litigation, and ensuring consistent approaches to legal matters in line with enterprise priorities and policies.
  • Provide legal training to contribute to internal capability building, offer professional leadership, drive change and excellence within the Legal & Governance team, and support the development legal policies and procedures.

Requirements

  • Tertiary qualification in Law
  • Admitted to practice as an Australian legal practitioner under the Legal Profession Uniform Law Application Act 2014.
  • Previous experience in post-admission, working in similar roles with minimal supervision, preferably within the construction and/or government sectors.
  • Demonstrated experience in one or more areas of technical knowledge required for the role.
  • Demonstrated experience in litigation civil and criminal procedure.
  • Experience in briefing external legal services providers.
  • Demonstrated process improvement initiatives and experience.

About Greater Western Water

We're a Victorian government owned water corporation that provides an essential service to some of the fastest-growing communities in Australia.

We're seeking applicants across all cultural backgrounds, genders, and abilities, and will make reasonable adjustments as required.


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