Senior Legal Counsel
9 hours ago
Senior Legal Counsel (Construction)
The Wellington City Council (WCC) legal team are making some changes and are looking for a senior construction lawyer to join their expanding team.
**The opportunity**
This is a great opportunity for you to join this complex environment to be encouraged and supported to do great varied work for our city and utilise your construction experience.
In addition to the great legal work that you will be exposed to and involved in, WCC have a well-developed leadership development programme and progression pathways to your support personal and professional growth.
With some new leaders already in place, the legal team have committed to growing a happy, healthy team who have a realistic workload and are supported to grow, develop, and be challenged (and be allowed to safely make mistakes) in a specialty of law that they are passionate about.
**About you**
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will:
- have at least 5 years PQE ideally including some in-house in construction law experience
- be experienced in providing strategic, solutions focused legal advice on construction contracts and construction related services agreements
- have advanced contractual interpretations skills
- understand the regulatory frameworks in which Council operates
- thrive in uncertain and complex environments
**The work**
The commercial team supports all aspects of council’s commercial and property functions, working on projects that change the face of the city’s landscape and aim to improve the wellbeing of the city’s residents. The successful applicant will advise on legal and related issues for large and smaller scale construction projects around the City. Some of these projects include Te Matapihi library, Sludge Minimisation, Zero Waste, and playground and facility upgrades
The two legal teams (Regulatory and Commercial) also provide also legal guidance for other large scale and complex projects such as Let’s Get Welly Moving, social housing, water reform, district plan Review, resilience issues FIFA world cup contracts and many more.
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