Your day-to-day:

At Lotto NZ, every role is a winning one — and as Junior Legal Counsel, you’ll be right at the heart of it. You’ll provide smart, practical legal advice that helps us deliver on our purpose while keeping things compliant and risk aware. Your work will be varied, meaningful, and full of impact. You’ll:

• Review, draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts and help manage them through their lifecycle.
• Advise on promotions, terms and conditions and marketing materials to ensure they’re legally sound and consumer friendly.
• Support compliance with key legislation such as the Gambling Act and Crown Entities Act.
• Provide legal input into privacy processes, customer queries and harm minimisation initiatives.
• Guide procurement activities in line with Government Procurement Rules.
• Help protect Lotto NZ’s intellectual property and support our retail network with legal advice.
• Deliver legal training, maintain contract templates and drive continuous improvement across legal and procurement practices.

This is a hands-on role where your legal know-how will help Lotto NZ operated responsibly, ethically and effectively - all while making a difference.

A bit about you:

You’re a confident legal professional who’s ready to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in. You enjoy solving problems, collaborating across teams, and turning complex legal concepts into clear, practical advice. You’ll bring:

• An LLB and admission as a Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand.
• 2-4 years’ post-admission experience in a commercial legal environment.
• Strong knowledge of NZ Contract and Consumer Law.
• Excellent communication skills – written, verbal and professional.
• Sharp analytical thinking and a clear approach to risk and compliance.

At Lotto NZ, we’re all about creating moments of joy and giving back to the community. If you’re looking to grow your legal career in a purpose-led organisation that values integrity, collaboration, and fun — we’d love to hear from you and a cover letter outlining your post-admission legal experience and how you fit Lotto NZ would be very well regarded. 

How we care for you / Me pēhea tā mātou tiaki i a koe:

To help you win at work and beyond, we’ve created some purposeful ways to look after you, your whānau and the community we share. Some of this includes: (* permanent roles only)

• *Insurances including medical, life, income protection and critical illness to make sure you’re covered whenever you need it!
• Cancer care programme: access to comprehensive Cancer support, including personal health coaching and educational resources. Free and confidential for employees and their whānau.
• Flexibility to have the work-life balance that suits both you and the people you care about via our hybrid working model.
• *An annual wellness benefit to support your wellbeing.
• Extra paid leave for days like Lotto Day at Christmas and Volunteer Day.
• Personalised development to help you grow, including access to tools like *LinkedIn Learning.
• Recruitment referral bonus.
• Modern office in Newmarket plus barista coffee machine.
• An array of health and wellness benefits such as free flu jabs, access to EAP and onsite gym.
• *Extra Parental leave benefits including return to work lumpsum payment plus KiwiSaver equality payment.
• Opportunity to join any of our Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Wellbeing networks.
• Enjoy fresh fruit, biscuits, coffee, breakfast, and a selection of teas on us! 

Come as you are / Haere noa mai:

We want you to feel at home when you’re with us. We accept you and celebrate you exactly as you are, no matter your background.

At Lotto NZ, we believe that when everyone’s in, everyone wins. That’s why we’re committed to and intentional about building a diverse and inclusive workforce that our customers and communities can feel a part of. Our focus is to create an environment where you thrive, and where people from all backgrounds feel seen, heard, and understood!

This is your opportunity to join a group of good people, with good vibes who support each other like whānau.

We want you to feel comfortable throughout the recruitment process, so please feel free to let us know if there is anything you need to allow you to participate equitably. 

Don’t worry if you think you don’t tick all the boxes – if you have passion and interest, we would love to hear from you.

While applications from any background are actively encouraged, the right to work in New Zealand is a must.