Senior Manager, Legal Projects
Akaysha EnergyBrisbane, Queensland
Full Time
Posted March 11, 2025
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Job Description
Akaysha Energy is seeking a senior lawyer to lead legal support for its global portfolio of renewable energy projects, overseeing project agreements from origination to operations while managing a team of legal associates. The role involves drafting, reviewing, and negotiating legal documentation, ensuring compliance with corporate governance, and collaborating with various stakeholders to mitigate legal risks.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead legal support for project agreements across the complete life cycle of projects.
- Draft, review, and negotiate project documentation including term sheets, MOUs, and agreements.
- Supervise and mentor Senior Legal Associates, Legal Associates, and Paralegals.
- Create templates, tools, procedures, and risk frameworks for project agreements.
- Manage external counsel to ensure timely and quality deliverables.
- Implement and enhance the Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management Framework.
- Advise on regulatory matters and collaborate with compliance teams.
- Identify legal risks and develop mitigation strategies for projects.
- Ensure governance approvals for project agreements and contract execution.
- Develop relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Requirements
- 8 years of post-admission experience (PAE) as a lawyer.
- Solid transactional and commercial contracting background across a range of commercial contracts, ideally with specialist training in EPC construction contracts and/or other energy contract documents.
- Experience in supporting projects that are subject to non-recourse project finance.
- Strong drafting experience with excellent attention to detail.
- Excellent negotiation, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport and influence key internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in supervision and delegation of legal work, ideally with prior managerial experience.
- Ability to prioritise, manage timing expectations, and project manage a high volume of work, including transactional processes across different projects and other workstreams, within tight deadlines.
- Ability to collect, analyse, and interpret complex commercial and technical information.
- Ability to anticipate legal issues and develop proactive solutions.
- High level of integrity, professionalism, and ethical conduct.
- Real interest in and passion for the energy transition.
- Must be an Australian citizen, hold permanent residency status, or have existing Australian working rights.
Benefits & Perks
above-market performance bonuses
flexible working arrangements
wellness allowances
professional training and development opportunities
hybrid working style
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