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Corporate Counsel

Melbourne - Salaried

Who are we?

Southern Cross Austereo is Australia’s leading media entertainment company, home of LiSTNR Triple M & the Hit Network. With the ability to reach 95% of the population through our Radio, TV, and Digital channels, we're on a mission to Entertain, Inform & Inspire all Australians Anytime. Anywhere!

In 2021 we launched LiSTNR, a curated and personalised Audio-On-Demand destination. It is home to the Hit & Triple M Networks, 25 music stations, and over 500 podcasts. LiSTNR is Australia’s #1 podcast network reaching more than 8 million monthly listeners.

What’s on offer for you?

  • Permanent position based out of our vibrant Melbourne office.
  • Training and development opportunities, health and wellbeing initiatives, birthday leave, volunteer leave, concert tickets, footy tickets, social events – PLUS much more!
  • Industry leading, gender neutral Paid Parental Leave Policy, offering 20 weeks paid parental leave for the primary carer.
  • Award-winning, highly supportive, and creative culture that enables you to be your best unique self!
  • Flexible working environment (we offer a range of flexible working options to help our people balance work and home life).
  • Attractive salary package and opportunities for growth & progression – we love to promote internally across our 65 offices!

About the role:

We’re looking for an energetic and motivated Corporate Counsel to join our inhouse legal team in Melbourne. The Corporate Counsel provides independent, high quality, timely and practical advice to support the business to make effective decisions, take effective action and achieve successful outcomes while managing legal risks and requirements.

What you’ll be doing:

  • General commercial contracting: Prepare, review and negotiate commercial agreements for the acquisition or supply by the business of goods or services, agreements for program supply, and music, video and content licensing. Guide the business in understanding and managing contractual commitments and resolving disputes.
  • On-air and podcast talent contracts: Prepare and negotiate contractual arrangements for on-air (including podcasting) talent.
  • Trade promotions and competitions: Assist promotions and content teams with development and implementation of trade promotions and competitions, including preparation of required terms and conditions, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • On-air, digital and social media content: Assist content teams to ensure that on-air and on-line content complies with applicable legal and regulatory requirements (including CRA Code of Practice, Commercial TV Codes of Practice, music licensing requirements, and laws relating to privacy, copyright, defamation and contempt).
  • Advertising materials: Review advertising scripts and advise on compliance with applicable laws, regulations and codes (including the Australian Consumer Law, Therapeutic Goods Administration Act, Consumer Credit Code, the AANA Code of Ethics, state and territory gambling and alcohol laws, CRA Code of Practice, and Commercial TV Codes of Practice).
  • Trademarks and other IP: Assist with research, registration and searches in relation to intellectual property matters.
  • Team meetings: Participate in team meetings and follow up agreed actions.
  • Legal and regulatory compliance: Help the Legal team to stay up to date with changes in laws.  Anticipate the legal needs of the business by proactively identifying legal trends, risks and opportunities.  Work with other members of the Legal team to develop and deliver timely and relevant legal and compliance training to other SCA teams. 
  • Legal systems and materials: Help to implement appropriate systems, templates and other standard documents to facilitate efficient conduct by the Legal team and SCA of common business transactions and activities.

Experience we’re looking for:

  • Three to four years relevant post-admission experience as a lawyer in an in-house legal team or law firm.
  • Experience in relevant areas of law such as privacy, advertising approvals, consumer law, intellectual property, trade promotions (well regarded)
  • Superior attention to detail skills and the ability to produce accurate, high-quality work under time constraints.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

We are values driven at SCA - if you align with our core values, you’ll be a great addition to the team:

  • We’re Better Together
  • People are our Power
  • Always Curious
  • We Push Doors Open
  • Be Genuine

Still not convinced?
Head to our TikTok, Life@LiSTNR, for a sneak peek into some of the fun we have at SCA!

Interested? Apply now by submitting your resume via our Careers Page. Even if you don't tick every single box on this ad, we still want to hear from you! 

Hot tip: Make sure you download and sign up to LiSTNR – you may be asked about your listening experience throughout the interview process! 

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

We are committed to advancing equal employment opportunities for our staff and to diversify and develop our workforce. Furthermore, we aim to recognise the value of attracting and retaining employees with different backgrounds, experience, knowledge and abilities. We also aim to ensure diversity contributes to our business success and benefits individuals, teams, clients and the community.