Paralegal - Identified Position

1 week ago

Canberra, Australia Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Full time

APS Level 3
- Canberra, ACT
- $75,419 - $78,554

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re-training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’- where our people reflect our purpose.

**The Role**

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the APS Level 3 may include:

- Undertaking legal and legal policy research (including in relation to Government workplace relations priorities).
- Summarising Court and tribunal decisions of interest.
- Updating fact sheets and tracking tables to reflect developments in the law.
- Preparing minutes of meetings with internal and external stakeholders.
- Proofing legislative process documents (including explanatory memoranda and talking points).
- Summarising submissions of external stakeholders relating to proposed amendments to workplace relations legislation.
- Preparing Parliamentary debate folders and Senate Estimates folders.
- Updating project trackers.
- General administration.
- Records management.

**Qualifications and Education**
Completed (or currently undertaking) a Bachelor of Laws from an Australian university is **mandatory**for this role.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide a summary (no more than **500**words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Don’t meet all the role requirements?**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

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