Legal Support Staff

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Education

**Salary**: $76,817 - $93,275

Occupation: Legal

Reference: VG/PES/20008701

Triage and allocation of requests for legal advice, financial administration, information technology and knowledge management, human resources, business planning, data analysis and reporting

**About us**

The Department of Education (the department) is responsible for delivering and regulating state-wide learning and development services to approximately one-third of all Victorians across the early childhood and school education sectors. The department is also one of Victoria's biggest employers, with approximately 80,000 teaching staff and around 5,000 public service employees.

The Legal Division provides highly valued legal services to support the delivery of the department's strategic objectives, key reforms and to manage legal risk. In doing so, Legal Division provides direct, practical and strategic legal advice to portfolio ministers, the secretary, other senior staff and over 1,600 government schools, supporting approximately over 650,000 Victorian Government school students.

**About the role - ongoing and fixed-term roles, full-time**

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Legal Division's Practice Support Unit (PSU), working with a talented and collaborative team of legal support staff to provide valued legal coordination and administrative services.

The PSU's key role is to provide business management, administrative and financial services to support the Legal Division to deliver highly valued legal services across the department's portfolios.

Key functions include the triage and allocation of requests for legal advice, financial administration, information technology and knowledge management, human resources, business planning, data analysis and reporting, budget management, risk and compliance monitoring.

Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills and the ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative manner will be highly regarded.

**About you**

Are you:

- a confident communicator who can comfortably engage with a range of stakeholders at all levels
- a team player with excellent interpersonal skills and a can-do attitude
- proactive and self-starting with the ability to identify systems and processes requiring improvement and encourage others to do the same

**W**hy join us?**
- **Be part of a passionate, high-performing team - **Legal Division is proud to be a 2023 finalist of the Australian Law Awards ‘In-house team of the year'.- **Flexible and hybrid working arrangements** — Part time, flexible start and finish times, work from home to help manage your work and personal commitments.
- **Competitive salary** - Bi-annual salary increases in line with the Victorian Public Service Enterprise Agreement
- **Diversity and inclusion** - As one of Victoria's largest employers, the department is committed to creating an organisation that is inclusive and ensuring it has a workforce that represents the community it serves.
- **Values** - The department has adopted the public sector values which are set out in the Code of Conduct for Victorian Public Sector Employees, which are Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values underpin how we interact with colleagues, students and families, members of the community, suppliers and government.
- **Employee assistance program** — For emotional, mental and general psychological wellbeing and support

**How to Apply**

**Application documents required**

Applications should include a CV and must also include a separate written document addressing each of the five Key Selection Criteria outlined in the position description.

**Further Information**

For more details regarding this position please see attached position description.

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person.

**Applications close** 11:59pm on Tuesday 29 October 2024.