Manager, Transactions

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / 36 months

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $129,379 - $173,138

Occupation: Legal

Reference: VG/DJ1983/APRIL23

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

An exciting opportunity to lead a high-profile team, at the centre of government, which advises on a variety of commercial and regulatory legal matters across the justice system.

**About us**

The Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for providing in-house legal services across the Department of Justice and Community Safety (DJCS) and to the Attorney-General, as First Law Officer, and multiple other Ministers.

The team leads the delivery of legal services on commercial and regulatory matters for DJCS. OGC is looking for an experienced manager with strong technical legal skills, stakeholder management skills and leadership qualities to co-manage the team.

**About you**

We are looking for an experienced lawyer who can manage a team that delivers sophisticated, authoritative, concise, and solutions-focused advice in commercial and regulatory matters. Key accountabilities include:

- Providing solutions-based legal advice on issues relevant to the government, ministers and the department, both individually and as a leader of a team of solicitors.
- Managing multiple complex and sensitive matters for various clients across the whole of DJCS.
- Supporting and working collaboratively with the executive and leadership team.
- Developing strong relationships with other DJCS groups as well as other departments, agencies, external law firms and stakeholders.
- Applicants must be admitted, or eligible to be admitted, to practice as a legal practitioner in Victoria.

**How to apply**
- FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:_

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
**MANDATORY VACCINATIONS**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.

At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal. This includes evidence of three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department (from time to time).

Acceptable evidence includes:

- COVID-19 digital certificate (available via your myGov account)
- Your immunisation history statement (available via your myGov account)

Other documentation outside the above will not be accepted as evidence of having received your COVID-19 vaccine doses.

**CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.