Senior Legal Counsel - Employment

Serco is a place where you can grow

Your impact makes a meaningful difference, and we're committed to supporting your professional and personal goals.

You’ll also have access to flexible benefits designed to support your wellbeing and growth, including:

• Flexible work arrangements to support work life balance


• Career development and professional growth opportunities


• Access to wellbeing and employee assistance programs


• Collaborative and inclusive workplace culture


• Opportunity to work across diverse and complex industries


• Long-term stability through government-backed contracts

Make an impact at Serco

As Senior Legal Counsel – Employment, you’ll play a pivotal role in helping Serco navigate complex employment and industrial relations matters across Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Working closely with senior leaders, People & Culture teams, and operational stakeholders, you’ll provide expert legal guidance that supports strategic business outcomes while minimising risk. This is a highly influential role where you’ll lead enterprise bargaining activities, represent Serco in employment-related proceedings, and contribute to workplace relations strategies that make a real difference across our diverse operations.

As a Senior Legal Counsel – Employment in the AsPac Legal Team, you’ll make a positive impact by:

• Leading enterprise bargaining negotiations and industrial relations initiatives


• Representing Serco in conciliations, mediations, hearings and employment disputes


• Advising stakeholders on complex employment law, workplace relations and compliance matters


• Developing and implementing workplace relations strategies aligned to business priorities


• Partnering with operational, People & Culture and leadership teams to manage workplace issues


• Coaching and supporting stakeholders to build employment relations capability across the business

Serco is a place for you

You could be a great fit if you have:

• Significant senior-level experience in employment law, industrial relations or workplace relations


• Proven experience negotiating Enterprise Agreements and managing industrial negotiations


• Strong advocacy experience before tribunals, commissions or decision-makers


• Excellent commercial judgement with the ability to balance legal risk and business outcomes


• Outstanding relationship-building and stakeholder engagement skills


• A current practising certificate with at least seven years' post-qualification experience in employment law

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders that will help you achieve your goals. Here, you will appreciate a flexible approach to work-life that comes with working at a company with long-term Government-backed contracts.

Are you ready to do important work that really matters?

At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.

We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia and New Zealand and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in Health, Defence, Maritime, Justice, Immigration, and Community Services.

We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.

By joining Serco you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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Impact a better future at Serco.