Description
The opportunity
The Senior Counsel provides high-level professional legal services to the organization, offering strategic guidance, legal advice, and managing legal and regulatory matters. They play a crucial role in policy and business development while ensuring legal compliance and minimizing risk exposure.
What you'll do
- Supports operations of the IESO by providing legal advice on a wide range of matters.
- Manages strategically important matters requiring sophisticated legal knowledge and experience.
- Conducts legal research, advice and opinions on files and seeing them to completion and also supervises less experienced counsel.
- Acts as an integral part of internal and external project teams.
- Manages outside counsel, ensuring quality, cost control, and customer service.
- Contributes to the development of legal department processes and knowledge management.
- Assists in optimizing legal department functions and processes.
What you need to succeed
- Mastery in legal skills with significant experience in one or more specialty areas (e.g., corporate commercial law, intellectual property law).
- Excellent skills in negotiation and drafting.
- Superior ability to articulate legal issues and advocate positions.
- Strong organizational, responsiveness, and time management skills.
- Ability to identify risks and provide strategic legal and business-related advice.
- Strives for excellence and makes decisions based on the ultimate good of the organization.
- Works in partnership with others and supports cross-functional decisions.
- Generally 8 to 12 years of relevant legal experience; knowledge of electricity or energy-related law is preferred, along with a willingness to expand knowledge in this area.
What's in it for you
- A comprehensive total rewards program, including best-in-class benefits and a flexible workplace
- A challenging, fast-paced and collaborative team environment, where your perspectives and experiences matter
- Leaders who support your growth and success through regular feedback and coaching
- The opportunity to work with some of the brightest minds in the industry
Contact
Independent Electricity System Operator
1600-120 Adelaide Street West
Toronto
Ontario Canada
www.ieso.ca
From the same organization
3 Jun, 2025
