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About the Role
The Legal Counsel provides practical legal support on legal, regulatory and commercial matters. The role independently reviews, advises on and negotiates contracts on standard terms and third-party terms in line with playbooks, with escalation of complex, novel or high-risk issues to Senior Legal Counsel or the Head of Legal.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely advice on straightforward legal and regulatory issues, applying playbooks, precedent positions and risk guidance
- Review, advise on and negotiate customer, supplier and operational contracts on standard and third-party terms independently within agreed boundaries
- Identify non-standard or higher-risk positions and escalate with clear options, recommendations and impact assessment
- Partner with sales, commercial, operational, finance and delivery teams to support transactions and business objectives
- Create or update guidance notes, clause positions, checklists and FAQs for recurring legal issues
- Manage allocated matters from intake to completion, including status updates, document control and closing actions
Requirements
- Qualified lawyer with 2-5 years PQE, preferably including in-house or commercial contracting experience
- Ability to work independently but know when to escalate
- Strong drafting, negotiation and stakeholder management skills
- Strong commercial judgement and practical risk-based advice
- Strong communication skills including across a varied stakeholder group
- Organised approach to matter management and competing priorities
- Comfort with legal workflow, CRM and document management systems
- Ability to adapt to new and complex areas of law and regulation
- Ability to learn quickly
Skills
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- Stakeholder management
- Commercial judgement
- Risk-based advice
- Communication
- Matter management
- Legal workflow systems
- CRM systems
- Document management systems
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Permanent
- Hybrid working, 2 days in the office
Experience Level
- 2-5 years PQE
Education Level
- Qualified lawyer
Benefits
- Supportive career development plans
- Comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities
- Generous discounts to over 400 retailers
- Competitive leave options, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and 5 extra days of Vocus leave each year, plus more
- Study assistance programs
- Health and wellness offerings, including access to wellbeing initiatives
- Opportunity to lead and inspire teams
- Work on projects shaping the future of telecommunications
About the Company
- As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world.
- Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.
- We are proud to be setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.
- We thrive on creativity, encourage new ideas, and provide a collaborative and inclusive environment.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong.
- We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.
- If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.