Senior Legal Counsel – Nudgee

The Role

Mercy Community Services are on the search for a Senior Legal Counsel to join our team. This role is a Permanent Full-Time role based in our Nudgee office (with up to 2 ‘Working from Home’ day opportunity). 

Reporting to the General Counsel & Company Secretary, and a key member of the Legal, Governance and Risk Team, you will provide commercially focused legal support and advice to stakeholders across all levels of the organisation. 

Key responsibilities include -

• Providing legal advice on a broad range of complex legal matters including privacy matters, regulatory matters, workplace health and safety, employment, property and general commercial matters and disputes;
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating a wide range of contracts including supply of goods and services agreements, professional services agreement, IT agreements and leases as well as assisting with policy writing and reviews;
• Developing and implementing a contract approval process and managing the legal workflow intake process;
• Assisting with organisational compliance and risk management;
• Developing and presenting training for employees including in relation to privacy, whistleblower protections, contractual matters and legislative and regulatory changes;
• Assisting with Company Secretarial tasks.

Salary commensurate with experience plus superannuation plus generous salary packaging available.

About you

To be successful, you will be a qualified lawyer with solid experience in private practice or in-house. A resilient and adaptable professional, you will have expert technical skills and the ability to work with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.  You are an outcomes-focused individual able to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.

Why Mercy Community

Mercy Community is a Catholic not-for-profit that provides a wide range of services supporting families and young people, people living with a disability and the elderly. All our work is driven by our core values of Compassion, Integrity, Dignity & Empowerment.

Being part of the Mercy Community team, means you have access to some fantastic benefits, such as:

• Increase your take home pay through the use of generous salary packaging - up to $18,550 per annum of your salary is available as a tax-free component
• Pay for your Queensland Blue Card and NDIS Worker Screening Card when you need – saving you up to $144 if you need both cards!
• Provide you and your immediate family free, professional and confidential counselling services including specialised First Nations counsellors
• Free annual influenza and/or other vaccination reimbursements
• Employee referral bonus incentive
• Cash out or purchase annual leave and to take advantage of extra leave entitlements

We also ensure all our employees have access to a wide variety of excellent learning and development tools to continue your professional and personal development. This includes making sure you have access to a range of other career pathways and opportunities across Mercy.

Please note we will review applications as they are received and we may interview and appoint prior to closing date, do not delay in applying.

For any queries, please contact MCSCareers.Mailbox@mercycs.org.au. We do not accept applications via email so please ensure you apply online.

Mercy Community Services is a Circle Back Initiative Employer and commit to respond to every applicant.