Job Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: St Leonards, Sydney

Job Category: Legal

We are Indara

As a leading owner and operator of shared digital infrastructure, Indara is the glue that makes all kinds of relationships work. Our crucial infrastructure enables over 90% of the Australian population to connect, bringing people together, and connecting them with the technology powering our world today: from smart phones to smart meters to AI and the Internet.

Join our #Remarkable team to deliver our Purpose to accelerate a digitised future for our communities.

#BeRemarkable at Indara

Your best work happens in an environment where you’re surrounded by people who encourage you to be your best self, that champions new ideas and embraces new technology.

At Indara, we're aligned by purpose, driven by innovation, and energised by what we'll do next – together.

We’ll Empower You To

#Beyou

#Bechallenged

#Becontinuouslygrowing

#Bepartofsomethingbigger

So Come, #BeRemarkable at Indara

Reporting to the Executive Director, Legal &

- Governance, the Special Counsel, Legal &
- Governance is a senior legal generalist responsible for providing pragmatic, commercially focused legal and governance support across Indara’s operations. The role operates across a broad and varied portfolio, acting as a trusted adviser to executives and business leaders on corporate and commercial matters, governance obligations, policy and regulatory compliance, disputes, company secretary and strategic business initiatives. It supports Indara’s governance framework and company secretariat activities, leads policy reviews and governance improvements, manages legal risk and balances legal, commercial, operational and reputational considerations.

Key Responsibilities Will Include

- Provide timely, practical and commercially focused advice on corporate, commercial, regulatory, governance and operational matters.
- Partner with executives and business leaders on strategic initiatives, projects, organisational change and operational decisions.
- Support Legal &
- Governance Team engagement sustainment and uplift each year, and support a team culture that drives the Indara Behaviours and valuable team spirit.
- Lead the review, drafting and maintenance of corporate policies, governance documents and compliance frameworks.
- Support company secretarial activities, including Board and Committee documentation, resolutions, corporate records and governance registers.
- Manage corporate disputes, claims, litigation and regulatory matters, coordinating external legal advisers where required.




- Provide legal and governance support on broader organisational initiatives, including procurement, vendor and stakeholder engagements.
- Provide legal and governance support to the Sales team with respect to the Enterprise &
- Government account.
- Draft, review and negotiate agreements and other legal documentation, identifying risks and recommending practical mitigation strategies.
- Proactively monitor proposed, upcoming and enacted legislative and regulatory developments affecting Indara, assess their implications and advise senior management on required business, policy and governance responses.
- Manage day-to-day legal enquiries arising across the business and take complete carriage of matters through to resolution.
- Manage external counsel and liaise with counterparties’ solicitors in relation to disputes, transactions and other legal matters.
- Develop and implement legal and risk management processes, governance frameworks and delegations that support consistent decision making and accountability.
- Draft governance papers, resolutions and corporate approvals and support Indara’s corporate governance obligations under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
- Support internal investigations and enterprise risk matters, providing strategic advice on complex and sensitive issues.

Desired Skills And Experience To be successful in this role you will have:

- Strong corporate, commercial and governance legal knowledge, with the ability to apply legal principles in a practical business context.
- Ability to quickly understand commercial, operating and risk drivers and apply them when developing legal advice and recommendations.
- Advanced legal drafting, negotiation, analytical and dispute-resolution skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate complex legal issues into succinct, practical advice.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capability, with the credibility, judgement and confidence to engage directly with executives, respond to complex and sensitive questions and provide clear, well-reasoned recommendations.
- Ability to multitask, manage competing priorities and work effectively in an agile, responsive environment.
- Strong autonomous working capability,



with ownership and complete carriage of matters.
- Strong mentoring skills

Qualifications And Experience

- Bachelor of Laws (LLB or JD) and admission as an Australian legal practitioner with a current practising certificate.
- Minimum 15 years’ post-admission experience in private practice and/or in-house legal roles.
- Demonstrated experience advising on a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, governance frameworks and policy development.
- Experience managing disputes, claims, litigation or regulatory matters and working with senior leaders and executives.
- Experience in infrastructure, telecommunications, technology or another complex regulated industry is desirable.
- Company secretarial or governance experience, and governance qualifications or training, and in-house legal leadership experience are desirable.

How we empower you to #BeRemarkable

- #BeYou –
- We create an workplace where you are comfortable to be who you are as we know the best you is the one who feels like they belong.

We offer hybrid and flexible work solutions, birthday leave, health and financial wellbeing programs

- #BeChallenged –

- We provide the opportunity to work on complex and innovative work that creates an impact and promote internal career and secondment opportunities
- #BeContinuouslyGrowing –
- We are committed to providing you with the opportunity to be always learning – as part of your role, formal and informal training and development planning
- #BePartofSomethingBigger –
- Our Purpose means you’ll be working on projects that impact our communities – giving us all the chance to be part of something bigger

Equity and Diversity

Indara appreciates the inherent value in a diverse workforce. We aim to ensure that our workforce is free from discrimination and that all employees reach their full potential. We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [email protected] .

Work Health Safety (WHS), Environment and Compliance

Comply with Indara’s WHS, environment and compliance commitments and directions as wet out in the relevant policies and procedures available on the intranet.

📌 Special Counsel, Legal & Governance (Sydney)
🏢 Indara
📍 Sydney