Reporting to the CEO, our client has a new opportunity for a national Principal Solicitor. The role will act as an in-house legal counsel providing strategic and practical legal advice and managing specialised legal services across the organisation. The role will operate as a standalone legal function and be responsible for ensuring consistency, quality and alignment of legal advice providing authoritative and strategic legal advice including to relevant legislation. You will negotiate and advise on agreements, memoranda of understanding and other arrangements with government agencies and non-government organisations, ensuring interests are protected and risks are appropriately managed. Included will be preparing, reviewing and negotiating contracts, including high-value and complex commercial agreements, tender documentation, preferred supplier arrangements and leases. You will also be responsible for managing matters relating to intellectual property rights, including addressing potential infringements and instructing external legal providers where litigation or specialist advice is required. The role will also be responsible for conducting legal research on priority issues, contributing to policy development, statutory reporting and parliamentary reporting requirements and the management of legal risks and advice. Suitable candidates will have a law degree from an Australian tertiary institution or other legal qualification recognised for the purpose of admission to legal practice in an Australia jurisdiction. You will be admitted to practice in an Australian jurisdiction as a solicitor and be eligible to hold a legal practising certificate. You will have extensive post-admission experience providing senior-level legal advice in the public sector or a comparable regulatory environment. You will have excellent conceptual and analytical skills, including the ability to undertake research, prepare reports and provide strategic advice to senior management that provide complex legal issues into practical solutions for decision-makers. Experience in drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex contracts and agreements and managing external legal providers and ensuring the delivery of high-quality and cost effective legal services is required. You will also have experience in managing, processing and assessing requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act. Importantly you will have strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills and be effective at exercising sound judgement and discretion when dealing with sensitive or high-risk matters. For more information on the role, please contact Pat Hart on 0439074391. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Hudson Hudson is committed to helping you find a workplace where you feel respected, supported, and free to thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, identities, and lived experiences—because when different voices come together, amazing things happen . Casual Loading Please note for all Australian based contract and temporary roles only, the pay rate is inclusive of mandatory 25% casual loading. This excludes permanent and fixed term roles.
