Legal Support Officer

Division: LRLS Law Reform & Legal Services
- Location: Darlinghurst, NSW, AU, 2010
- Req ID: 76066

**Legal Support Officer**

**Public Defenders Chambers**
- **Principal location - Sydney**:

- **Employment type - Temporary (up to September 2026)
- Full time (35 hours)**:

- **Salary - Clerk Grade 3/4, Base Salary ($84,659 - $92,701), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**Your role**
- This is a unique opportunity to provide vital legal and administrative support to the Public Defenders chambers, enabling barristers to focus on complex criminal defence work. If you are organised, adaptable and committed to justice, this role puts you at the heart of meaningful legal work.

**What you’ll do**
- As part of the Public Defenders chambers, you will provide essential administrative support to Public Defenders and the executive team, helping to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of chambers.
- You will prepare legal documents, manage case data systems, coordinate Audio Visual Link (AVL) bookings, assist with court preparation, and support events such as legal education seminars and the annual criminal law conference.
- You will also:

- Manage the front desk, incoming calls, mail, deliveries and visitor access
- Liaise with solicitors, clients and other stakeholders to ensure appropriate access to services
- Assist with compiling, copying and organising briefs for court matters
- Create and maintain accurate client records in the CASES database
- Arrange travel bookings and process travel claims in line with departmental policy
- Set up purchase orders, process invoices and follow up on payments
- Provide basic IT support to staff, including ordering equipment and troubleshooting issues
- Help update the Public Defenders website and onboard new users to internal systems
- Prioritise and respond to urgent support requests in a high-pressure legal environment
- Work as part of a small, professional and highly dedicated team committed to criminal justice and legal equity.

**What we’re looking for**
- Demonstrated experience providing administrative support to criminal law professionals, ensuring efficient legal operations and client service
- Strong sense of social justice
- Ability to deal with a wide range of people and clients from diverse backgrounds
- Ability to manage confronting legal content with discretion and professionalism
- Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities under pressure
- Confidence using IT systems and supporting others with troubleshooting and database tasks
- National Criminal History Record Check in accordance with the Disability Inclusion Act 2014
- Working with Children Check clearance in accordance with the Child Protection (Working with Children) Act 2012
- Download the role description.

**What We Offer**
- We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
- Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

**We do work that really matters**
- Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**
- Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 3 pages) addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

- Targeted Question 1

**Describe your experience providing administrative support in a legal or high-volume professional environment.**
- Targeted Question 2

**Describe a time you identified a problem and took initiative to resolve it.**

**Applications close**:**Sunday, 27 July 2025 at 11:59pm AEST.

**Got a question?**
- Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**
- We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
- To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

**Other Information**
- A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

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