General Counsel

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years. 
Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers. 
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities. 

Avant Mutual is looking for a General Counsel to join our team on a permanent, full-time basis in our Sydney CBD office. 

The General Counsel will lead the group legal team and be responsible for a range of strategic corporate and commercial matters, while safeguarding Avant’s reputation by ensuring Avant stays ahead of potential legal risks and enabling the Executive Team to make informed strategic choices within an acceptable legal risk profile. As the Group Corporate Counsel, you will work closely with the business to develop trusted relationships with multiple stakeholder groups. 

The key responsibilities include: 

• Provide expert legal advice across a broad range of areas.  
• Advise Avant on its legal rights and obligations and identify solutions to eliminate or mitigate legal and regulatory risk.  
• Ensure that the General Counsel and Legal Team are informed of new or proposed legislation or regulatory activity that may affect Avant’s operations and have oversight as necessary to ensure regulatory changes are fully embedded in the business.  
• Liaise with regulators, government officials, department or tribunals on matters affecting Avant where required in conjunction with the Governance Risk & Resilience function.  
• Negotiate, draft, and settle all major client contracts, vendor contracts, and other commercial arrangements to safeguard Avant’s interest. 
   

To be successful in this role you will have: 

• Bachelor of Laws degree or similar tertiary qualification. 
• Current NSW Corporate Legal Practitioner Practising Certificate. 
• Successful track record in an in-house corporate legal capacity. 
• Private practice experience in providing commercial legal advice. 
• Previous experience working in an Insurance and/or Australian financial services environment would be beneficial. 
    

Why work at Avant? 

• At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career. 
• We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance. 
• Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career. 
• We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support. 
• We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others. 
   

For further information please contact Lisa Craddock, Talent Acquisition Business Partner on lisa.craddock@avant.org.au.  
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