Senior Legal Counsel

Are you ready to join the winning team at The Lottery Corporation?

We power Australia’s biggest lottery games – and we’re one of the world’s top-performing lottery businesses.

As the home of The Lott and Keno, we’re building on decades of excitement and life-changing wins, bringing our games to every state and territory except WA.

For more than a century, we’ve been playing our role in creating positive impacts by delivering winning moments every day to our people, our customers, retailers, partners and our community. 

But we’re not standing still. We’re evolving into an entertainment company – more customer-obsessed, more agile and driven by real outcomes.

Because at our core, it’s simple: we create winning moments – and we’re building the next chapter as the team behind Where Australia Comes to Play.

Join us! 

This role sits within the Business Enablement legal team, supporting key business areas to deliver on their strategic objectives while maintaining strong governance and compliance.

As a Senior Legal Counsel, you'll be a trusted advisor to the business, partnering with leaders to navigate legal and regulatory complexity while supporting strategic priorities and commercial outcomes.

Note - this is a 12 month max-term contract to cover a period of parental leave. 

What you’ll do 

• Provide commercially focused legal advice across the business
• Advise on regulatory, licensing, consumer law, and commercial matters
• Support litigation and dispute resolution activities
• Identify legal risks and develop practical solutions
• Manage relationships with external legal providers
• Build trusted partnerships with stakeholders across the business
• Deliver legal training and capability-building initiatives
• Contribute to knowledge management and continuous improvement across the legal team

What you’ll bring  

• A degree in Law and admission as a solicitor in Queensland (or eligibility to be admitted)
• Several years post-qualification experience
• Experience in one or more of: commercial contracts, competition and consumer law, franchising, privacy, intellectual property or gambling regulation highly regarded
• Experience advising businesses operating in complex regulatory environments
• Strong commercial judgement and risk management capability
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• The ability to balance autonomy with strong collaboration and teamwork
   

What you’ll get

Not only will you receive an awesome candidate experience from our caring Talent team, but you’ll get a genuine feel for who we are and what it’s like to be part of our team.

The benefits of working with The Lottery Corporation are pretty good. Just to name a few:

• Balance work and life with our ‘flex for great outcomes’ approach – hybrid working, plus a range of generous leave options. 
• Reward and recognition programs at all levels. Your hard work won’t go unnoticed.
• Ignite your potential with our dedicated learning and development platform to support your bright future.
• We empower careers to grow from within. 50% of all roles in 2025 were filled by our own people, proving that your next opportunity is already here!
• A true sense of belonging. We’re committed to Inclusion & Diversity with a range of initiatives such as our Gender Affirmation Support, employee inclusion networks and diversity memberships and celebrations.
• Make positive impacts with opportunities to volunteer with our community partners. We'll also dollar match fundraising efforts of our employees lending their support to registered charities.

We’re committed to providing a safe, respectful and supportive work environment. We encourage you to let us know if we can make any accommodations, so the process can be more user friendly for you.  

We acknowledge and pay respect to the traditional custodians of the lands on which our offices, retail outlets and venues operate. We acknowledge the inextricable link First Peoples of Australia have with the land past and present.

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