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Legal Practice Manager

8 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Department of Transport and Planning Full time

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Ongoing - Full Time

Organisation: Department of Transport and Planning

**Salary**: $130,673 - $174,869

Occupation: Legal

Reference: 3837

**About the Role**
Join our team as a Legal Practice Manager and play a crucial role in our dynamic legal department. Reporting directly to the General Counsel's Principal Lawyer and Adviser, you'll drive operational excellence, strategic initiatives and continuous improvement projects, supporting DTP legal executives and the DTP legal teams more broadly. Responsibilities include coordinating legal practice support, through a matrix management arrangement of administrative staff, developing and managing systems and process, and leading high-level projects. We're seeking an innovative, organised individual with strong analytical and stakeholder management skills to join our collaborative environment and contribute to our high-performing in-house legal practice.

**To access the Position Description, please click here.**

**Position Outcomes / Accountabilities**
We are currently seeking a skilled Legal Practice Manager to join our team at the Department of Transport and Planning (DTP). In this role, you will provide expert guidance and organisational support to our legal executives and administrative staff, ensuring smooth operations and interaction with the department.

**Key Selection Criteria**
- **Critical Thinking and Problem Solving **- Takes into account wider business context within business unit when considering options to resolve issues; Identifies recurring problems and prevents future recurrence by integrating solutions into work processes.
- **Project delivery **- Translates strategies into programs or projects that enables achievement of outcomes; Defines governance required to manage risks and maximise probability of success.
- **Knowledge management and business continuity **- Knowledge management and business continuity is integrated into risk management planning for all projects.
- **Develop capability** - Develops and applies frameworks to develop capability at organisation level.
- **Digital and Technological Literacy** - Integrates improved capabilities into service delivery processes.
- **Innovation and Continuous Improvement **- Uses understanding of clients or stakeholders; contest to design and implement systems for continuous improvement within team; Reviews and analyses internal and external information to improve effectiveness and quality of work.

**Qualifications and Experience**
**Mandatory**
- Demonstrated experience in legal practice management.

**Desirable**
- A Bachelor of Laws or relevant tertiary degree in legal practice management, business administration, public administration or similar. is desirable.
- Experience in administering case management systems (i.e. LEX and Salesforce) and SharePoint (cloud) based software.

**Role Specific Requirements**
- Flexible and remote working, sometimes from different office locations.

**What we offer**
- Meaningful work making Victorian communities more accessible and liveable.
- Professional growth and development opportunities across the department and the wider Victorian Public Service.
- A hybrid working model focused on collaboration and teamwork.
- Optimal work-life balance initiatives including flexible working arrangements.
- We prioritise the development of a safe and inclusive culture.

**Culture Value**
We are an equal opportunity employer, embracing a diverse range of applicants such as veterans, and people who identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, LGBTQIA community members, individuals with disabilities and/or health conditions, as well as those from varied faith and cultural backgrounds. At our department, we prioritize the development of a safe, inclusive, and high-performance culture through shared actions and behaviours that align with our strategy and direction. This empowers our employees to effectively contribute to our goals.

**How to Apply