Senior Manager, Legal Services

7 days ago


Clayton South, Victoria, Australia Monash University Full time $120,000 - $250,000 per year

The Opportunity

Monash University is seeking a highly experienced legal professional to join the Office of the General Counsel (OGC) as a Senior Manager, Legal Services – Commercial and Property. Monash is a modern, multi-national, research-intensive university, with over 17,000 staff, 86,000 students and a diverse and complex range of business needs. The Commercial and Property team provides legal support across major commercial transactions, IT and general procurement, and a wide range of property and construction matters. In this senior leadership role, you will be managing a small team of senior lawyers, and will deliver expert legal support for senior University stakeholders. Working closely with and supporting the Director, Legal Services – Commercial and Property you will ensure the delivery of top tier legal support and play a key role in advancing the University's strategic and operational goals.

This position will be responsible for providing timely, practical and high-quality legal advice, across a range of commercial and/or property law matters, ensuring alignment with the University's strategic direction. You will draft and negotiate a wide variety of legal agreements, manage complex transactions and projects, and offer expert guidance to both internal OGC colleagues and external University stakeholders. You will also play a key leadership role, guiding a team of legal professionals, managing stakeholder relationships, contributing to service delivery improvements, and ensuring the legal function operates with excellence, integrity and efficiency in a fast-paced and high-volume environment.

To be successful in this role you will be a qualified legal practitioner with at least 10 years' post-admission experience (indicative). You will bring deep technical expertise, in the areas of commercial law and/or property law, ideally with a strong focus on IT procurement. You will have proven people management experience. A strong communicator and strategic thinker, you will demonstrate the ability to manage complex legal matters independently, work collaboratively with senior stakeholders, and lead with professionalism, ethical judgement and discretion. Experience in a large or matrix organisation will be highly regarded.

About Monash University

At Monash, work feels different. There's a sense of belonging, from contributing to something groundbreaking – a place where great things happen.

We value difference and diversity, and welcome and celebrate everyone's contributions, lived experience and expertise. That's why we champion an inclusive and respectful workplace culture where everyone is supported to succeed.

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Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents.

To Apply

For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs'. Your application must address the Key Selection Criteria.

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible recruitment process at Monash. If you need any reasonable adjustments, please contact us at hr- in an email titled 'Reasonable Adjustments Request' for a confidential discussion.

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

All senior professional appointments within the University are performance based and fixed term in nature.

Enquiries: For a confidential discussion please contact Sarah Blatchford, Group Manager – Legal Operations & Strategy, OR

Position Description: Senior Manager, Legal Services - Commercial and Property

Applications Close: Wednesday 24 September 2025, 11:55pm AEST

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