Senior / Legal Counsel (Regulatory)

4 days ago

Auckland City, New Zealand Niche Full time

Senior / Legal Counsel (Regulatory)

Two interesting and challenging in-house roles for both a senior legal counsel and legal counsel, where you will have the opportunity to do amazing, challenging, and varied work with the support of a newly appointed leader who is committed to building a team environment in which you can thrive.

You will be supported to grow, develop, and be challenged (and be allowed to safely make mistakes) in a specialty of law that you are passionate about.

**The work**

The primary focus of these roles will be to provide regulatory legal advice to the organisation in a range of areas including district plan review, earthquake prone buildings, resource management planning and compliance, building consents and compliance, bylaws, and public health issues.

You will also:

- Identify legal, organisational, and reputational risks and provide solutions focused advice.
- Instruct and work closely with external legal service providers as necessary.
- Assist with the management of response to litigation involving the organisation.
- Be enabled to pursue learning and professional development opportunities.

**About you**

First and foremost, you will have a desire to join a busy, dynamic and growing in-house legal team, with an interest in doing work that makes a difference and a desire to grow your regulatory knowledge and experience. It would also be great if you were familiar with court processes, litigation, and enforcement - however this is not essential. In addition to this:
As a Senior Legal Counsel, you will:

- have at least 5 years PQE, ideally including some in-house public sector experience
- understand regulatory frameworks and what good public decision-making looks like
- thrive in uncertain and complex environments
- have advanced statutory interpretation skills
- have a demonstrated ability to provide strategic, solutions focused legal advice

As a Legal Counsel, you will:

- have 1-3 years PQE, preferably with some resource management or related experience
- be interested in pursuing a regulatory career pathway
- be curious and have an enquiring mind
- have the initiative to problem solve while also being comfortable to ask for support
- have a demonstrated ability to provide solutions focused legal advice

**The opportunity**

This is an exciting time to be joining the team - the organisation is continuing to implement their revised structure which includes growing their legal workforce, providing career promotion pathways, and enabling leaders to have the time and resourcing to provide strong leadership and enough people to do the mahi.

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