Senior Legal Officer

About the Opportunity

Our Legal, Governance & Risk team is seeking a Senior Legal Officer, accountable for using a high level of understanding and insight into the law and legal issues specifically relevant to the delivery of school-based education in NSW to provide internal legal advice, ensure legal compliance, and support strategic decision-making for the organisation. This role will lead privacy and information management approaches for CSPD and will be the nominated Privacy Officer for the organisation. This role is ongoing full-time with hybrid working offered.

If you are currently employed by Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese, please submit your application via our internal Careers Site on EmployeeConnect. We are excited to support you in the next step of your career.

Key Responsibilities

Reporting to the General Counsel, the Senior Legal Officer is accountable for:

• Providing pragmatic and business-focused solutions to legal issues, both simple and complex

• Advising the Executive Leadership Team, senior system and school leadership and Board on legal and privacy matters

• Drafting and reviewing contracts as well as providing contract-specific and general corporate and commercial advice

• Overseeing privacy and information management, serving as CSPD's Privacy officer

• Representing or coordinating representation of CSPD in courts and tribunals

• Supporting Principals and other leaders in legal issues arising from operation matters, including compliance with court orders

• Providing legal input on strategic, governance and administrative matters and sourcing and managi…