Paralegal - 12 Month Contract, Part Time

6 days ago

Perth, Australia Avant Full time

Avant is Australia’s leading medical defence organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years.
Avant now represents 90,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional, personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our member, we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and research activities.
**About the role**:
Avant Law is seeking a Paralegal to join our Perth team for a 12 month contract position. This is a part time (3 days per week) opportunity.
If you are passionate about collaboration, advocacy and making a difference for Avant’s members we want to hear from you.
**Key responsibilities for this role include**:

- Assisting Solicitors in the management of a legal practice and contribute to the effective functioning of the Legal team.
- Provide an administrative support function to Avant Law including assisting to prepare legal documentation including briefs, drafting correspondence, court filing, liaising with witnesses, experts, court and/or tribunal staff and assisting with processing of Avant Law’s invoices for professional services.
- Coordinating meetings and travel arrangements.
- Processing accounts payable invoices, monthly billings and MasterCard reconciliations.
- Assisting with general office administration.

**The successful applicant will have**:

- Previous demonstrated experience in an administrative or paralegal position in a legal environment.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
- Fast and accurate typing skills including digital dictation typing.
- Experience drafting and formatting legal documentation.
- The ability to balance multiple priorities, meet deadlines and show attention to detail.
- Intermediate level of competence in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
- Experience in preparing and maintaining legal files.

Why work at Avant?
- At Avant, our people are the centre of everything we do for our members. We offer a range of benefits and opportunities to enable you to make a difference, learn, and grow in your career.
- We value our people by offering an inclusive workplace with a diverse range of benefits, flexible working options, career development, and internal mobility opportunities. Our flexible working arrangements are designed to enable genuine work-life balance.
- Your development is our priority and we have a variety of learning and development programs that will support you in your career.
- We offer support to our people via Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Health and Wellbeing programs, Tertiary Education Sponsorship and Support.
- We have a diverse and connected work environment where your contribution and ideas will be valued and respected and make a real difference to the lives of others.

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