This role offers the chance to step into a high-impact position supporting one of the most significant development pipelines in the market, backed by institutional capital and spanning major, high-profile projects.
Working at the centre of QIC Real Estate, you will partner closely with Development and Asset Management Directors, providing commercially pragmatic legal advice across the full lifecycle of complex construction and development projects.
About the Role
This role sits within QIC’s Real Estate Legal team and acts as the lead legal adviser across construction and development matters.
The position is responsible for providing end-to-end legal support across procurement, contracting, delivery and dispute resolution, while also contributing to broader real estate matters across retail, commercial and residential assets. It is highly integrated with the business, requiring strong stakeholder engagement and a genuine commercial mindset.
Operating as a trusted advisor to the business, the role plays a key part in navigating complex, multi-stream projects, balancing legal risk with commercial outcomes.
About You
You are a commercially astute legal professional who thrives in a dynamic, in-house environment, with experience spanning private practice and institutional or developer-side settings. Strong stakeholder engagement capability enables effective partnering with senior leaders to influence and drive outcomes.
Confidence and proven experience across complex construction and development matters is essential, alongside the ability to contribute to broader real estate and funds-related issues. Success in the role is underpinned by a pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset and the ability to navigate large-scale, multi-stream projects.
Key Responsibilities
To Succeed, You Will Have
This is a unique opportunity to join a high-performing in-house legal team and contribute to some of the most significant development projects in the market, with direct exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to shape outcomes at a portfolio level.
***We are not partnering with recruitment agencies for this appointment. Unsolicited agency CVs will not be accepted. Candidates should submit applications directly to QIC. If you require additional information, please contact Cassandra Eshman.***
About QIC:
As one of Australia’s leading institutional investment managers with more than A$100billion in assets under management, we have a presence across four continents, seven offices and assets across global markets.
At QIC, we believe in shared value — where delivering strong investment returns can go hand in hand with doing good for our clients, people and communities. If we invest well, we will all do better together.
Life at QIC
We know that our people perform at their best when they feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to bring their authentic selves to work every day. We provide a supportive work environment where everyone can thrive and feel valued for their meaningful contribution in delivering for the prosperity of our clients, people and communities.
Joining QIC, you can contribute to our employee led networks that champion our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy, which consists of five key pillars: Gender Equality, LGBTQ+, Accessibility, Cultural & Linguistic Diversity, and First Nations People.
Other reasons to join us:
At QIC, we welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTQI+ community, people with disabilities and people from all cultural backgrounds.We have an equitable, barrier-free application process so please inform us of your accessibility requirements in your application or you can reach out to our Talent Team on 07 3360 3800
We are a sovereign investor and an international institutional manager driving resilient investment outcomes for our clients and creating shared value.
Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, we have more than $100 billion in assets under management and offices in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, San Francisco, London, Copenhagen and Singapore.
Today, we partner with approximately 125 clients spanning Australia, the US, UK, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, with a track record of asset stewardship as an acquirer, owner and manager of internationally significant real assets and liquid market solutions.
Investing for the long-term is in our DNA, enabled by our stable ownership by the Queensland Government. We manage multi-asset portfolios for government clients and deliver infrastructure, real estate, private equity, private debt, natural capital, and fixed income and liquid market solutions for private institutional capital.
Our People define who we are and how we do things. our team brings a unique combination of skills, experiences and perspectives.
We have an experienced international team of over 900 professionals across our corporate and investment functions, working together to achieve our purpose: to create shared value by responsibly investing for the prosperity of clients, people and communities.
