Solicitor

9 hours ago


Wellington City, New Zealand New Zealand Government Full time

We're transforming Aotearoa's Water Services Sector.
Join us and transform your career.

Safe, reliable, and affordable drinking water, wastewater and stormwater underpins the health and wellbeing of all our communities. Large-scale, once-in-a lifetime reform is being undertaken to ensure that all in Aotearoa have affordable ongoing access to safe drinking water and more environmentally friendly wastewater and stormwater services.

Join us as we embark on Aotearoa's largest transformational reform programme, Three Waters.

The scale of the Three Waters reform programme means you'll work as a member of a handpicked team that is working across a range of challenging issues critical to reform implementation - spanning areas of corporate governance and management, pricing and economic regulation, infrastructure planning and investment, and system stewardship and monitoring. The knowledge and experience you'll gain in contributing to this high-profile reform will have the power to transform your career.

The work is ground-breaking, vital and incredibly visible both within Government, and in the wider community. You'll know what you're doing matters - it's meaningful and will and make a real difference to the economic, health and social wellbeing of New Zealanders for years to come.

Right now, we're seeking four Solicitors to join us on a fixed term role within our Legal and Insurance team, who sit within the Commercial and Financial function of the National Transition Unit (NTU). The Legal and Insurance team is responsible ensuring all legal and commercial risk in the establishment of the new water service entities, and the transfer of assets from the local authorities to these new entities, is appropriately managed.

If you have the following skills and experience, we would really like to hear from you:

- 1+ years PQE working as a Solicitor providing high quality legal advice
- Experience with one or more of drafting and reviewing a wide range of contracts, working with or for government departments on public service transactions and/or reform or with or for local government preferably in a legal role.
- Great people skills, and the ability to build working relationships across an organisation with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong research and writing skills and excellent attention to detail.
- You'll enjoy working on complex legal issues in a fast moving project/programme environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We recognise a diverse workforce contributes to better business outcomes. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees have equal access.



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