Director Legal Projects & Development (Sydney, NSW, AU, 2020) na None

"Legal Practice Builder - Director Projects & Development"

Lead a dynamic team of specialised legal officers while pioneering the legal framework for NSW's transportation future. As Director Legal Projects & Development, you'll deliver sophisticated, high-value legal solutions across construction, property, and planning matters for the entire Transport Portfolio, including Sydney Trains and NSW Trains.

Your Pioneering Opportunity

This is more than a leadership role – it's a chance to architect the legal foundation for NSW Motorways as a new government entity. You'll be building from the ground up, establishing relationships, defining service parameters, and creating the legal function that will support one of NSW's most significant infrastructure developments.

With your deep construction law expertise (front-end focus), you'll shape how legal services are delivered in this emerging practice area, ensuring our legal framework evolves alongside NSW's expanding motorway network. This is your opportunity to leave a lasting impact on NSW's transport infrastructure while leading a team of legal specialists in delivering solutions-focused advice that drives project success

The role leads a team of specialised legal officers, delivering complex, high quality, high value, timely and solutions-focused legal services and independent advice in the Projects, Development and Planning Legal team. The role specialises in providing construction, property and planning advice to the Transport Portfolio, including Sydney Trains and NSW Trains.

Key accountabilities

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• Provide leadership and expert legal advice to the Secretary, Senior Executives and Manager and lead complex legal negotiations to facilitate the management and resolution of a diverse range of the project, operational, legislative, parliamentary, and other legal matters impacting Transport’s capacity to achieve its strategic goals.
  
  
• Direct the research, analysis and interpretation of complex project, operational, legislative, and legal issues, prepare high-quality and articulate submissions, reviews and recommendations that add value to decision-makers, enhance the decision-making process, and improve the efficacy of Transport’s activities and impact on decision-makers stakeholders.
  
  
• Take a leading role in client teams, identifying legal risks, providing solution-oriented legal advice and drafting and contribute as a senior team member to coordinate and influence outcomes that align to organisational and commercial objectives and parameters, ensuring that strategic legal risks are escalated to the manager.
  
  
  

You can find more infomration in the role description. 

About you

You will have

Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in at least one of the following:

• Construction law (front end) preferred
• Property law
• Planning/environment law
  
  

• Hold a current unrestricted practising certificate.
  
  
• A NSW practising certificate will be required for some roles.
  
  
• Minimum of 5 years relevant legal experience.
  
  
• Extensive experience with infrastructure development, including Government Approvals and Unsolicited Proposal Rules. 

Who we are

At Transport, we’re passionate about making NSW a better place to live, work and visit. Our vision is to give everyone the freedom to choose how and when they get around, no matter where they live. Right now, we’re delivering the largest infrastructure program that Australia has ever seen – to keep people and goods moving, connect communities and shape the future of our cities, centres and regions.

At Transport, we’re also committed to creating a diverse, inclusive and flexible workforce, which reflects the community and the customers we serve.

Our organisation – Transport for NSW – is comprised of numerous integrated divisions that focus on achieving community outcomes for the greater good and on putting our customers at the centre and our people at the heart of everything we do.

Join us

Our workforce is as diverse as the community we serve. If you’d like further information on our inclusion and diversity initiatives, visit Transport careers.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits, like our award-winning flexible and hybrid work options.

This role is hybrid-friendly, meaning you can mix in-person days at your team’s home base location with remote days. 

What are you waiting for…? Connect with us.  Apply now!

Applications close: 11:59 pm Sunday 28 September 2025.

For more information about this role, please contact [email protected].

Aboriginal people and people living with disability are supported throughout the recruitment process and at work, and we encourage you to apply. Visit Supporting Aboriginal people or Supporting people with disability for more info or speak to your talent team member to arrange any adjustments to how you interact with us. 

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