El 1 - Manager, Legal and Compliance

**Position Overview**

This role requires strong organisational and administrative decision-making skills, along with initiative and a proactive approach to supporting a team that is dispersed nationally. The Manager may be asked to review the work and decisions of the team as well as provide expert and strategic advice to the Registrar, President, Members, staff of the NNTT as well as other internal and external stakeholders in relation to legal requirements and compliance under the NTA. Managers may also undertake any other task or project assigned to them by the Director, Legal and Compliance.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Maintain expert knowledge of native title legislation and regulations and respond to changes in the NTA and the broader native title sector.
- Ensure content quality assurance through peer review of reasons for decisions, data records and other work, as well as proactive contributions to the monitoring and improvement of standards and consistency of practice and procedure.
- Contribute to and maintain effective and professional relationships with NNTT stakeholders and establish a culture of service delivery that is flexible, positive, responsive, professional, and accountable.
- Contribute to ensuring that compliance with processes and procedures is to a high standard, and that effective delivery of services is timely and consistent with the NTA, regulations and administrative law principles.
- Provide management and supervision to allocated Senior Officers, Legal Research Officers and Graduate Research Officers.
- Provide professional development and support to team members through supervision, advising, coaching, and mentoring, and by contributing to the ongoing development and maintenance of resources to ensure work is conducted in a timely and effective manner.
- Respond to information access requests including in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) if needed.
- Adhere to the Australian Public Service Values and Code of Conduct and consistently behave in an honest, ethical and professional way.

**Qualifications**
- Tertiary legal qualifications, admission as a legal practitioner, or the eligibility to be admitted is required.
- Previous experience in native title legal practice area, while not essential, would be an advantage.

**Selection Criteria**
- Possess and demonstrate an understanding and cultural awareness of the issues affecting First Nations peoples, in particular when communicating with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.
- Highly developed administrative, organisational, analytical and communication skills with the ability to communicate sensitively and effectively with Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander people.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills and the ability to represent the NNTT in a variety of forums displaying discretion, integrity, and sensitivity.
- Leadership and management skills, including the ability to manage and supervise allocated team members.
- Demonstrated professionalism, including the ability to work constructively with a wide range of stakeholders.

**Eligibility**
- Australian citizenship - the successful applicant must hold Australian citizenship;
- Security and character clearance - the successful applicant must satisfy a Police Records Check, and may also be required to complete security clearances during the course of their employment;

**Diversity and Inclusion**

First Nations peoples, LGBTIQA+ people, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, Mature age workers, as well as young workers and supporting an inter-generational workforce and supporting gender equity and families.

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