Paralegal

**The Role**:
**Where you fit in**

You will provide high quality paralegal support to the Integrated Gas, Renewables & Energy Solutions business in Australia. This role will provide a wide variety of general support for the Legal function in Australia. The wide range of activities covered by the role include:

- responsibility for maintaining registers and systems managed by Shell Legal in Australia such as the electronic Agreement Control Form (ACF), the PPSR Register and the Security of Critical Infrastructure Register;
- supporting the Associate General Council (AGC) Shell Energy Australia and the Managing Counsel (MC) Brisbane in a Management Assistant capacity;
- the provision of some administrative support to PWC as the external provider of company secretarial services to Shell Australia;
- assisting lawyers with property transactions and activities associated with litigation (disclosure and document production); and
- other projects to enhance the continuous improvement of the Shell Legal team in Australia

**What’s the role?**

Your accountabilities include the following:
General support to the legal team on routine and non-routine legal matters, including:

- Maintaining the Personal Properties and Securities Register, the Security of Critical Infrastructure Register and potentially other regulatory registers for Shell Australia.
- For QGC / east coast Legal team, raising Purchase Orders (PO) for new external legal matters; ensuring monthly invoices are reviewed by relevant lawyers; ensuring Alternative Fee Arrangement (AFA) budgets for all matters are maintained; focal point for all invoicing and SAP queries.
- Managing the electronic ACF process for Shell Australia. This includes site ownership and management of the SharePoint site, serving as a local focal point to the business on the ACF process, assisting with the execution of documents, checking of corporate and organisational authority, maintaining the ACF register, and filing of hard and soft copies of all non-CP agreements.
- For QGC / east coast Legal team, organising logistics for large training sessions and major meetings with external parties, drafting engagement letters for Shell/QGC matters, invoices, legal firm matter and litigation reports, budget reporting against spend, new vendor set up, purchase requisition requests, PO increases etc, CP/AP queries.
- Maintain the Australian Legal information system, including being the Legal Information Management focal point, advising team members on creation of Shared Mailbox folders, advising team members on creation of new subsites/libraries in Legal Document Management System.
- Management of Shell Legal Mailbox (notices / correspondence).
- Some admin support to PWC as the external provider of company secretarial services.

Litigation management support, including:

- Basic discovery and document collection, including scanning and photocopying of documents and management of databases such as eDiscovery.
- Assistance with setting up of new matters, including AFA proposals; engagement letters; Purchase Order raising; liaising with CP (Contracts and Procurement); cost reporting and control.
- Preparing minor chronologies and briefs for external counsel.
- Management of third parties and experts.

**What we need from you**

We are keen to speak to professionals with the following:

- A professional, fast-learning and enthusiastic individual with strong organisational skills and a meticulous attention to detail who is keen to develop experience working in a diverse role.
- Demonstrate leadership and foundational behaviours - acting as “one Shell” and constantly embracing HSSE, compliance, collaboration, business partnering and continuous improvement.
- Ability to work inclusively with both internal and external stakeholders with diverse external backgrounds, including senior lawyers/business representatives.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
- A good degree of flexibility, interacting with legal and business colleagues spread across different businesses.

**More about Shell in Australia**

Shell Australia is a leading natural gas producer, and we are playing our part in the transition to a low-carbon future by also investing in the power sector, renewable energy sources and carbon abatement activities. A Shell career offers opportunities to work on innovative projects such as the Prelude floating LNG facility offshore of Western Australia and the QGC onshore gas business in Queensland. Beyond these are a wide range of Shell’s New Energies development opportunities. Join Shell and let’s power progress together with more and cleaner energy solutions.

**An innovative place to work**

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at Shell.

Join us and you’ll be adding your talent and imagination to a business with the ambition to shape the future - whether by investing in oil, gas and renewable energy to meet demand, exploring new ways to store energy, or develop