What you'll be doing
- Provision of timely, strategic, and commercially focused legal advice to support regulatory uplift programs, business decision-making, compliance, and customer outcomes.
- Provide ongoing legal support and advice on regulatory matters, ensuring compliance with telecommunications laws, industry codes, and emerging digital platform regulations.
- Manage regulatory enforcement matters by mitigating legal risks, providing customer-focused advice, overseeing external resources, and ensuring timely reporting to stakeholders.
- Manage Optus' responses to regulatory and law enforcement requests while supporting the Group Compliance Program through legal advice, compliance, and proactive risk identification.
- Promote legal and regulatory compliance by training and educating Optus teams, and supporting readiness and adherence to new and existing laws.
- Support Optus' regulatory position by meeting commitments, monitoring legal developments, and contributing to regulatory strategy through collaboration with Regulatory & Government Affairs.
- Enhance legal support efficiency by leveraging the right resources, delivering clear and timely advice, and ensuring a strong customer-first focus.
What makes you perfect for the role?
- Qualified Australian solicitor with 5+ years' legal experience, extensive knowledge of regulatory and telecommunications matters, and a law degree.
- Experience in telecommunications or regulatory matters, working in fast-paced environments, and collaborating with diverse stakeholders.
- Skilled in providing commercially focused legal and regulatory support, with strong drafting, negotiation, project management, and communication abilities.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office and other standard office tools, with the ability to effectively communicate across all organizational levels.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build trust, influence stakeholders, work both independently and collaboratively, and manage competing priorities.
- Performance-driven, proactive, and developing leadership and management capabilities.
Benefits and culture
- Optus is a place where we let you do you. We offer a range of benefits including:
- 3 days in the office, 2 days remote – with flexible hours to suit
- Inclusive carer neutral paid Parental Leave of up to 16 weeks
- Competitive leave including 2 'Connected Leave' Days
- All Optus employees have access to resources, webinars and support via the 'Parents at Work portal'
- Own your own growth by accessing an extensive online and facilitator led learning catalogue.
- Connect at work through our employee-led volunteer groups: Culture Connect, Elevate Women, Disability Network, Express Yourself (LGBTQIA+), United Veterans, Yarn Network, Wellbeing Network and Young Professionals.
- Vibrant campus life, variety of facilities including restaurants, cafes, gymnasium, GP, and post office
- Free Optus bus from Macquarie University Metro Station (every 6-8 minutes); morning and afternoon
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At Optus, we are strengthened by others and that means valuing diversity and saying 'yes' to embracing individual differences. We are committed to ensuring that our application process provides an equal employment opportunity to all job seekers, including individuals from diverse gender, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, individuals with a disability, individuals identifying as being part of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals who may have served in the armed forces or who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. We also want to do our best to make our recruitment process inclusive. If you require any adjustments or accessibility support to participate fairly and equitably in the recruitment process, please email AccessibleRecruitment@optus.com.au or call 1800 309 170. We're here to help. When you contact us, please advise us of your preferred method of contact and we will be in touch within 48 hours
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