Aps5 Legal Officer

3 weeks ago


Melbourne, Australia Department of Veterans' Affairs Full time

Salary Range: $83,013-$86,511+ Attractive Superannuation
- Contact Officer: Kenneth Wong (02) 6276 4532.

The **Royal Commission Taskforce** is a specialist team within the General Counsel Division that supports the DVA’s engagement with the Royal Commission into Defence and Veteran Suicide.

**Duties**
- Deliver high quality legal services that meet client expectations (including financial), business and legal risk, compliance requirements and professional standards.
- Develop and maintain client relationships with business areas and promote the General Counsel Division as the Department’s trusted advisor.
- Supervise (as required) and/or support other section members including contributing to the setting of the direction of work priorities and practices and monitoring work flow for legal support staff as required.
- Further professional legal expertise, through participation in development, training and study opportunities, and meet Continuing Legal Education requirements and other expectations.
- Be responsible for the delivery of moderately complex legal services under general supervision of a more senior lawyer; have “day to day” responsibility for legal matters that are moderately complex in nature and work with more senior practitioners on more complex matters.
- Have a strong understanding of relevant areas of law; the scope of legal work can include litigation, commercial, advising, privacy and legislation.

**Eligibility**

For eligibility requirements please see Job Description document

**Notes**

A merit pool will be established that may be used to fill similar positions (ongoing and non-ongoing) within the next 18 months.

DVA is committed to improving the data skills and capability of our workforce to underpin our goal of becoming a leading data-driven organisation.

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