Job Title: Corporate Legal Advisor
The Department of Premier and Cabinet is seeking a highly skilled and experienced corporate legal advisor to join its team.
About the Role:
We are looking for an individual with strong technical, legal and conceptual skills to provide strategic, risk-based legal advice to various DPC portfolios and agencies in their corporate related matters.
Key Responsibilities:
* Delivering legal advice in an in-house environment on contractual, tendering, procurement and negotiation issues, employment matters, grants making and agreements, intellectual property and brand protection, property law and transactions at the centre of government.
* Providing technically excellent and strategically focused legal advice on commercial contracting and other corporate issues.
* Leading and assisting with the preparation of briefs and correspondence on significant legal and legal policy issues.
* Establishing and maintaining relationships with a diverse stakeholder group.
* Managing competing priorities and delivering results based on incomplete or ambiguous information, under pressure.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Admitted to practice as an Australian lawyer and eligible to hold a Victorian practising certificate.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Highly developed relationship management and negotiation skills.
* Proven ability to effectively manage competing priorities and deliver results based on incomplete or ambiguous information, under pressure.
Benefits:
* A dynamic and supportive work environment.
* Opportunities for career growth and professional development.
* A commitment to diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.
Other Information:
* The department is committed to providing a safe and healthy work environment.
* The position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia.