Austrade is seeking a 5 years PQE lawyer to join the organisation as a Senior Legal Adviser (Executive Level 1). Austrade's Legal and Fraud Team provides in-house legal services to the global agency, ensuring that Austrade's programs and administration are legally sound. The team advises on a broad range of internal and external issues, including: governance and risk management; statutory compliance; dispute resolution; anti-bribery, fraud and corruption control; privacy, confidentiality and data protection; contracting, procurement and grant administration; and intellectual property protection. As a Commonwealth agency with domestic and international operations, the team is required to be dynamic and flexible in its ability to handle legal challenges arising within Australia and in foreign jurisdictions. This role offers exposure to a wide variety of legal matters with a commercial, administrative and international focus and is suited to lawyers with the skills and ambition to work within a broad in-house role. The key duties of the position include In this general commercial and administrative law role, you need the legal skills and experience to: provide legal advice in relation to Austrade operations and relevant legislation; provide general corporate and commercial legal advice including in the context of overseas jurisdictions; advise on Australian and offshore contracts, including drafting and negotiating agreements, working with the Procurement team to meet Commonwealth procurement requirements; define and develop legal policies and procedures, legal operating guidelines, and conduct legal compliance reviews; work collaboratively with other areas of Austrade (e.g. People, Finance and Security) to ensure Austrade staff understand and fully adhere to public sector standards for transparency, accountability and ethical behaviour; manage a wide range of stakeholders, including internal clients, external parties, and briefing external counsel as required; manage and advise on complex requests and decisions under the Freedom of Information Act 1982; manage coordination of fraud and corruption investigations and litigation matters; and advise on the Privacy Act 1988, and offshore equivalents.