The Legal Services Department plays a critical role in our organization by providing comprehensive legal support across various domains. Comprising Corporate Legal, Transaction Legal, and Real Estate Legal divisions, this department ensures legal compliance, safeguards the organization's interests, and facilitates smooth project delivery.

As part of Infrastructure Ontario’s Transaction Legal team, you will have an opportunity to play a leading role in Ontario’s Transit Oriented Communities development projects to build mixed-use communities that will bring more housing, including affordable housing options, and jobs within a short distance of transit.

What You Will Do

• Provide high-quality and commercially minded legal advice and service to internal clients and senior management on matters related to Infrastructure Ontario’s Transit Oriented Communities portfolio.
• Be accountable for a team of lawyers assigned to the Transit Oriented Communities portfolio in their carriage of files and issue management, and responsible for managing the team’s performance. Give direction to Transaction Legal team members and support their development through coaching and mentoring.
• Support the Vice Presidents, Transaction Legal on corporate-wide initiatives and other general matters.
• Oversee the provision of legal support on a portfolio of Transit Oriented Communities projects.
• Provide advice and guide project lawyers in structuring and implementing Transit Oriented Communities projects. This will often require innovative thinking to develop and negotiate agreements reflecting the needs of each project.
• Draft, review, analyze and negotiate complex agreements, opinions, memoranda, and procurement documents to manage risk and ensure that the government’s objectives are achieved.
• Ensure compliance with Infrastructure Ontario’s governance and real estate requirements.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with project partners, funding partners and other stakeholders.
• Oversee and direct external counsel; interpret and disseminate legal advice and recommendations to senior lawyers and senior management.
• Represent Infrastructure Ontario in relations with representatives of the government, public- and private-sector stakeholders, the media and the general public.
• Educate legal team and internal clients on legal matters through discussions and presentations.
• Assume other legal and management duties as assigned.

What We Are Looking For

• We are seeking an individual with a minimum of several progressive years of experience practicing law or similar related experience in the area(s) of commercial real estate, development, infrastructure, construction, and/or corporate/commercial.
• Experience with real estate development transactions is required. Experience with transit-oriented development transactions (or equivalent) is desired.
• Experience acting for clients (in either the public or private sector) on large and/or complex transactions is desired.
• The individual must have a university degree in law (LLB or JD) and membership in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario.
• The ideal candidate will have the following skills and personal attributes:
• Proven management and leadership skills and abilities.
• Demonstrated ability to understand business issues quickly, think strategically, understand the business implications of proposed legal solutions and exercise good judgment in providing timely and practical legal, strategic and commercial advice.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills, including the ability to communicate complex legal issues in a way that can be understood by both lawyers and non-legal clients.
• Demonstrated ability to identify areas of change and initiate, drive and see through such change to completion.
• Consistently demonstrates reliability, a commitment to a high level of quality and care in their work, decisiveness, self-confidence, self-control and self-awareness.
• The ability to thrive in a fast paced, high-pressure and multi-task environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a large team-based environment of a growing organization.

What We Offer

• Commitment to creating a diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture that promotes a sense of belonging and represents and reflects the needs of the communities we serve.
• A flexible, hybrid work approach that allows colleagues to find balance between their professional and personal lives and making the most of the benefits of working remotely and purpose-driven in-person collaboration opportunities.
• A defined contribution pension plan, where IO contributes the equivalent of 5% of a full-time employee’s annual salary, with an option for IO to match an additional 5% contribution made by the employee. IO also offers a Group Retirement Savings Plan and Group Tax Free Savings Account, designed to help IO colleagues plan and save for their future.
• A comprehensive package that covers health, dental, vision, out-of-country care, paramedical services, and more.
• A pregnancy and parental leave program that offers expecting, eligible employees a top-up to 95% of their annual base salary for 31 weeks, and our parental leave program offers eligible employees a top-up to 95% of their annual base salary for 15 weeks.
• Access to our $1000 Healthcare Spending Account to top up expenses not covered in the benefits program and a Lifestyle Account that expands the eligibility of health and wellness options and can include coverage for gym memberships and fitness equipment, nutrition counselling or financial planning.
• Support for professional development opportunities for all colleagues through a broad range of learning programs that include in-person and online training, leadership development, and support for colleagues’ well-being. IO will also cover the costs associated with up to two membership and license fees per year for eligible colleagues if directly related to the employee’s role.
• Access to a suite of virtual healthcare options to support non-urgent medical needs.
• A convenient, central location at 1 Dundas St West, easily accessible by public transit.

We offer a competitive salary range. Pay will align with skills, knowledge and experience of the candidate.

This posting will close on September 10, 2025.

Interviews will occur on a rolling basis until the role is filled.

After reviewing the qualifications listed above, we want you to know that we understand you may not meet all the qualifications described, but still encourage you to apply, as you may have other relevant expertise and experience that you can bring to the role.

At Infrastructure Ontario, we strive to create a culture that encourages a diverse equitable and inclusive environment that fosters belonging. We believe that experience comes in many forms and through learning from each others’ differences and perspectives gives us strength. We are committed to enhancing our culture and encourage applications from all walks of life. Let us know if you require any accommodations for the selection process, by contacting the Talent Acquisition Team.

Candidates who are members of Indigenous, Black, racialized and 2SLGBTQ+ communities, persons with disabilities, and other equity deserving groups are encouraged to apply, and their lived experience will be taken into consideration as applicable to the posted position.

At Infrastructure Ontario, we use AI in our applicant tracking system to improve the efficiency and fairness of recruitment. Your application will be reviewed by both AI and our hiring team for a thorough evaluation. Please note that final hiring decisions are made solely by our experienced hiring team.