Assistant General Counsel, Regulator Advisory

4 days ago

Sydney, Australia NSW Department of Customer Service Full time

Unique opportunity to provide strategic legal advice to a range of regulators
- Ongoing employment
- Total remuneration range: $231,159 - $255,262 commensurate with experience
- Based in Sydney CBD (McKell) near Central Station, with hybrid working arrangements available. Periodic attendance at Parramatta Square is highly desirable as team members are also based here.

**About the role**

Are you a senior legal professional with a passion for public law, legislative reform, and strategic advisory work? The NSW Department of Customer Service is seeking an accomplished legal executive to lead its advisory legal team as **Assistant General Counsel, Regulator Advisory**.

This is a high-impact leadership role where your expertise will directly influence regulatory operations, legislative development, and policy implementation across NSW Fair Trading, the Building Commission NSW, and SafeWork NSW.

As Assistant General Counsel, Regulator Advisory you will lead a team of advisory lawyers delivering expert legal services that support the agency’s strategic, operational, and legislative priorities. You will provide high-level legal advice to Ministers, Executives, and senior stakeholders, ensuring legal risk is effectively managed and government objectives are achieved with integrity and precision.

**In this role, you will**:

- Deliver strategic legal advice on complex legislative, regulatory, and policy matters.
- Lead and manage a high-performing legal team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and continuous development.
- Oversee legal input into cabinet submissions, ministerial correspondence, and legislative amendments.
- Provide guidance on statutory interpretation, administrative law, and legal frameworks underpinning government operations.
- Support the development and carriage of legislative reform through Parliament.
- Advise on legal issues related to delegations, disciplinary processes, and machinery of government changes.

For more information on the role and its accountabilities, click **here** to view the role description.

**Does this sound like you? If so, we want to hear from you**
- Proven experience leading a new function, inspiring and bringing together a team of experts to achieve desired outcomes in a complex and fast paced environment
- Expertise in statutory construction and/or administrative law
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to provide strategic advice on complex legal issues to senior stakeholders
- Experience providing legal advice to regulators is highly desired

**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.

**Closing date: Friday 18 July 2025 (9:59am).**

**Belong in our diverse and inclusive workplace**

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.

You can view our full diversity and inclusion statement here.

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