Paralegal

**Job no**: 493784
**Work type**: Full time ongoing
**Location**: Melbourne - CBD
**Categories**: Legal

Help provide paralegal support to the Legal & Governance team. It is a great opportunity for a person with a passion for the performing arts to learn the business and develop their legal experience at one of Australia’s foremost arts venues.
- Flexible hybrid work arrangements available
- Full time ongoing role
- Join our Legal & Governance team

**About the Role**

In this role, you will provide paralegal support to the Legal & Governance team. This includes assistance with the preparation and review of contracts across the business, development of legal precedents, records management, policy development, contributing to process improvement and legal awareness across the organisation.

**Full time ongoing position. Band 3.1 annual full-time salary of $78,113.00 plus superannuation.**

**Your Skills and Experience**
- Ideally completed or working towards a Certificate IV in Legal Services.
- Previous experience within a legal practice, either in-house or law firm, in a paralegal support role favourable though not essential.
- Demonstrated experience in a role providing administrative support, including the creation and maintenance of business documentation.
- Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to engage and influence other team members to affect positive outcomes.
- Excellent time management, project management and organisational skills.
- A proactive approach, with the ability to show initiative and find creative solutions to complex problems

**About the Team**

This team contributes to the strategy and success of business operations through the provision of expert legal and governance advice to the Victorian Arts Centre Trust (Trust), the CEO, Executive Team and business units of Arts Centre Melbourne (ACM) and providing administrative support to the Trust to enable it to discharge its functions under s. 5 of the Victorian Arts Centre Act 1979 (Act).

**About Arts Centre Melbourne**

Arts Centre Melbourne acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which we gather, the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung. We also acknowledge the neighbouring Kulin Nation groups, the Boonwurrung and Bunurong people, and pay our respects to elders, past and present.

Beneath our iconic Spire, in Hamer Hall and at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, we showcase the best of Australian and international performing arts.

Together with our own program of performances, events and activities we offer a diversity of audiences a distinctly multidimensional approach to participation, education and entertainment.

We are now focused on Reimagining Arts Centre Melbourne as part of the Victorian Government’s commitment to transforming the Melbourne Arts Precinct into a thriving, connected creative and civic space over the coming years.

For a glimpse into working at Arts Centre Melbourne click here.

**Enjoy Team Member Benefits**

As a valued member of our ensemble, you will enjoy:

- Complimentary tickets
- Discounts at food & beverage outlets
- Discounted commuter benefits and onsite parking
- Access to wellbeing activities and learning and development programs
- Free access to Employee Assistance Programs which includes specific support to our First Nations team members via their I-CARE program and providing specific counsellors for members of the LGBTQIA+ community and People of Colour.

**Employment at Arts Centre Melbourne is conditional upon the satisfactory completion of a National Police Check.**

**Applications are open to those with full working rights in Australia**.** Arts Centre Melbourne is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer**.

**Advertised**: 10 Jan 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 26 Jan 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time