Associate Legal Officer
7 months ago
The NSW Personal Injury Commission is looking for an ongoing Legal Officer to join the Legal and Policy Directorate.
**Benefits**
- Fantastic ongoing role based in Sydney CBD
- Salary range: $93,295 - $102,941+ super, commensurate with experience.
- Genuinely flexible working arrangements.
- Excellent career development and learning development opportunities.
**About Us**
The Personal Injury Commission (Commission) resolves disputes between people injured in motor accidents and workplaces in NSW, insurers and employers.
The Commission is an independent statutory tribunal within the New South Wales justice system, committed to providing a transparent and independent dispute resolution service.
Resolving disputes justly and efficiently in the shortest time frame is a priority for the Commission. We work with all parties (injured persons, insurers, and employers, where relevant) to discuss ways of achieving this.
The Commission exercises functions in two divisions - the Motor Accidents Division and the Workers Compensation Division.
You can read more about the PIC here.
As noted above, although the Commission is an independent Tribunal, the staff who work in the Tribunal are employed by Department of Customer Service.
Understand more about the Department of Customer Service - here.
**Your responsibilities will include**:
- Work collaboratively as part of a team to provide a range of legal functions, including decision making, to support the efficient operation of Legal & Policy Directorate.
- Undertake legal research and assist with preparation of draft advice/briefing documents to expected standards.
- Assist lawyers with the management of legal matters to support the on-time delivery of services.
- Provide general administrative support to optimise efficiency and support the delivery of quality outcomes for the Legal & Policy Directorate.
**About you**:
- A Bachelor of Laws with a current practising certificate (or eligibility to obtain practising certificate);
- Strong legislative and policy knowledge.
- Ability to handle competing priorities with conflicting and critical deadlines.
- High quality administrative support services.
- Attention to detail and accuracy.
- Experience in NSW workers compensation desirable.
If you want to be part of this forward thinking, innovative team that thrive in challenging the status quo, we would love to hear from you
**What we need from you**:
A talent pool may be created from this recruitment process to fill future ongoing and temporary opportunities.
Salary Grade 5/6, with the base salary for this role starting at $74117 base plus superannuation
**Working at Department of Customer Service**
The Department of Customer Service (DCS) is a great place to work Our values of accountability, trust, service, and integrity drive our initiatives and culture. We support innovative programs in areas as broad as digital government, consumer protection and major public works. We are an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity and flexible work practices and believe our people are our greatest asset.
Visit our Careers site to find out what it means to work for us.
**You Belong Here**
We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and new ways of working.
We have 8 million+ reasons to care and want our employees to represent the communities that we serve.
You can view our full diversity and inclusion statement here.
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