Legal Support Manger

3 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia Department of Finance Full time

Business Enabling Services Group / Corporate Services Division / Legal & Assurance Branch
- Executive Level 1 ($117,538 - $142,337) | Ongoing & Non-ongoing | Full-time
- Canberra, ACT

**ABOUT THE BRANCH**

The Legal and Assurance Branch partner with business areas in the Department of Finance to provide high quality legal, risk and assurance services. The Branch currently includes four sections:

- **Public Administrative Law** team are responsible for providing strategic legal advice on statutory interpretation and administrative law matters, and the legislation program for Finance.
- **Public Information Law** supports the Department’s engagement with inquiries and investigations, including law enforcement and compliance activity. This team also support the Department to meet Privacy obligations and process FOI requests.
- **Commercial Law** team are responsible for providing strategic commercial and corporate legal advice across a wide range of activities of the department, including the procurement of legal services through whole of government arrangements, contract negotiation and dispute resolution, and management of some commercial litigation.
- **Assurance and Risk team **are responsible for financial governance, enterprise risk management, internal and external audit liaison, fraud control and insurance liaison. The team also supports the Performance and Risk Committee of Executive Board and the independent Audit Committee.

**ABOUT THE**
**OPPORTUNITY**

As Legal Support Manager you will work closely with the Assistant Secretary, Legal and Assurance Branch, to build capability within the branch and support continuous improvement for our Finance client areas, focusing on the delivery of quality legal services.

Typical tasks include:

- Supporting the engagement of external legal service providers on behalf of the Department and other procurement arrangements, including bundling arrangements and standing offers
- Supporting the Directors of the Legal Services Team to allocate requests for advice and monitor Legal Service Performance
- Liaison with internal stakeholders, clients and suppliers as required
- Monitoring key deadlines, following-up responses, and initiating contact when deadlines are close or have been exceeded
- Assistance with business planning and general practice duties, including the development of legal practice standards and related policies
- Continually reviewing and identify opportunities to improve administrative and record management practices to capture knowledge, improve document flow and timeliness of service
- Arrangements for ongoing training and continuous education to lift capability to manage legal risk
- Coordination of recruitment and practical legal training placements as required

The role may also extend to provision of administrative support to FOI and Legislation Liaison functions undertaken by the branch and supervision of law students undertaking placement within the branch.

**DETAILED VACANCY INFORMATION**

For detailed information about this role, including the job specific capabilities, please refer to the downloadable vacancy pack, which can be accessed by clicking the hyperlink at the bottom of this page.

**ELIGIBILITY ADVICE & CANDIDATE NOTES**
- Under section 22(8) of the _Public Service Act 1999_, employees must be Australian citizens to be employed in the Australian Public Service (APS) unless the Agency Head has agreed otherwise, in writing.
- Successful applicants will be required to undergo the process to obtain and maintain, or continue to hold the required security clearance level for the role as indicated in the downloadable job pack. All Finance staff are required to have a minimum baseline security clearance prior to commencement.

**CONTACT INFORMATION**
- For specific questions relating to this job vacancy, please refer to the details on the contact officer located in the downloadable job pack.

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