AddressJoin our in-house legal services team as a Senior Solicitor and provide high quality legal advice to Council.
- Work in a dynamic and customer focused team
- Permanent full-time
- Balance your life with a 9 day fortnight
- Hybrid work conditions allowing work from home and onsite working arrangements
- Flexible work arrangement options are available
About the role
Exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Solicitor to join a small and dynamic legal services team. The role will be responsible for delivery of expert legal services and will contribute to the successful mitigation of risk and liability and ensure we achieve corporate compliance within legal frameworks.
This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Degree qualifications in Law and be admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
- significant post admission experience in litigated matters and/or providing complex legal advice in a local government context.
Other important information
- Salary for this position commences at $96.3k to $115.5k plus 11% superannuation
- This is a Permanent full-time role.
- This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight
- We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role.
- This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building.
Council will be creating an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies in similar roles.
Extra benefits
At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check ups, a 'me day' to refresh you. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.
Other extras include:
- Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
- Free flu vaccination program
- Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
- Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
- We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
- Novated leasing partnerships.
Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.
Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.
What to know more?
The contact person for this role is Louise Rampling, Principal Solicitor. You can contact Louise on 4304 7169 or on email at ***************@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au.
This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday, 19 May 2024.
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Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia.
How to applyWe have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.
By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false.
You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate. This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.
- Answer the on-line questions shown below.
- Attach your resume
- Attach your qualifications and licences.
Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.
If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing *******@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.
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You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.
If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.
PLEASE NOTE: We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.
