Legal Manager Resilient Lands Program

Division: Corporate Services- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150- Req ID: 70884
- **Exciting opportunity to support the legal team as a manager for our lands program**
- **Temporary full-time opportunity (2 years)**
- **Parramatta/CBD (shared working location), with flexible/hybrid working environment**
- **Clerk Grade 11/12, Salary relative to experience, and ranges from $139,787 to $161,663**

**About the role**

The Manager, Legal provides expert legal advice, guidance and solutions on complex operational, commercial and reputational issues, to internal stakeholders and the leadership team.

Reporting to a Director, Legal, you will provide advice to and represent the CEO and Executive Directors in discussions with other key stakeholders in matters requiring legal representation including negotiation of complex commercial transactions and agreements.

This role will focus on the provision of advice relating to the Resilient Lands Program (RLP) in the Northern Rivers. The RLP is a $100 million program focusing on identifying and unlocking land to provide safer places for people to live in the Northern Rivers. You will assist the program by providing legal advice on planning and property matters, land acquisition and complex construction and transactional advice (including negotiation of contracts such as project development agreements and funding deeds).

Undertaking a wide range of tasks with often tight or competing timeframes, the role requires excellent organisational skills, attention to detail, enthusiasm, and a commitment to providing high quality advice and services. Your communication and interpersonal skills are highly developed, and your strong stakeholder management skills provide you the confidence and ability to build and maintain trusted relationships with a variety of stakeholders and team members.

We will also support the development of your leadership capabilities, providing the opportunity to mentor and uplift junior team members.

**What we’re looking for**

To be successful in this role, you will have demonstrated extensive knowledge, and/or experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Property and Acquisition law;
- Construction law;
- Planning law;
- Drafting and negotiating Project Delivery Agreements, Funding Deeds, complex grants arrangements and ancillary side deeds; and
- Structuring complex transactions.

For more information read the full **Role Description**.

**About the Agency**
The NSW Reconstruction Authority is a statutory corporation that will improve how NSW plans for disasters and ensure that we recover from them faster.

To reduce the severity and impacts of disasters, the NSW Reconstruction Authority will complete critical planning and preparation with communities, businesses and government. When disaster does strike, we will get recovery started swiftly and coordinate reconstruction efforts across agencies, communities and other stakeholders.

**Joining our team with a rewarding job in a community-driven agency is just the start. The Authority also offers**:

- Flexible working practices
- Contemporary workspaces and technology
- Access to learning and development opportunities
- Employee assistance and wellbeing program (with a cool app)
- Workforce that values inclusion
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Fitness Passport with a choice of 200+ gyms and pools across NSW

**To Apply**

**Applications close Friday, 22 November 2024 at 11:55PM.**

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months.

**Looking for more information or assistance in applying?