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About the Role
Provide independent, accurate, and timely legal advisory services supporting the agency’s strategic, operational, and legislative priorities within the Regulator Advisory stream of the Department of Customer Service (DCS) Legal Division, predominantly working with the Building Commission NSW.
Responsibilities
- Provide pragmatic, focused, and defensible, risk-based legal services on a diverse range of specialist issues.
- Provide clear, concise legal advice and representation across a range of legislation including statutory interpretation, legislative interpretation and reform, administrative law, and legal frameworks underpinning government operations.
- Interpret and distil complex legal issues in the preparation of documents and other legal documentation to ensure statutory, ethical, probity, and other legal obligations are properly addressed.
Requirements
- Admitted as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
- Hold or be eligible to hold a current practising certificate as a solicitor.
- Proven stakeholder management and communication capability.
- Ability to work collaboratively and flexibly with stakeholders to support delivery outcomes.
- Client-focused team player who can adapt to change.
- Ability to independently manage competing priorities and deadlines in a dynamic environment.
- Strong analytical ability, lateral thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to apply legal principles in a practical way.
- Minimum of 5 years relevant post qualification experience in two or more of the following areas: Regulatory and/or administrative law, Information access and privacy law, Public law, Interpretation and operation of legislation and legislative frameworks.
Skills
- Legal advisory services
- Legislative and regulatory reform
- Administrative law
- Statutory interpretation
- Legislative interpretation
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Collaboration
- Adaptability
- Time management
- Analytical thinking
- Problem-solving
Location
- Sydney CBD
- Flexible working options available
Work Type
- Ongoing
- Full-Time
- Hybrid working options available
Experience Level
- Senior
- Minimum of 5 years relevant post qualification experience
Education Level
- Bachelor of Laws or equivalent degree qualification
Salary/Compensations
- $133,348 - $146,945+ super
Benefits
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About the Company
- The DCS Legal team supports a range of portfolio business clients including Building Commission NSW, Digital.NSW, NSW Fair Trading, NSW Telco Authority, the Principal Department, SafeWork NSW, Service NSW, and the State Insurance Regulatory Authority (SIRA).
- 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.
- Join us and influence the future of our great state.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- We provide adjustments to the recruitment process for candidates, including individuals with disability.