Job Overview
We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights, and enriching lives. Our department supports individuals in securing safe, secure, and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future.
The Role
This position leads a branch of lawyers responsible for developing legislation and providing expert legal advice on cutting-edge workplace relations issues and policy. The Senior Executive Lawyer reports directly to the Chief Counsel/First Assistant Secretary, Workplace Relations Legal Division.
* Provide clear, accurate, timely, and strategic written and oral advice on complex legal matters in accordance with legal professional obligations.
* Manage and lead legal teams providing practical, timely, and client-focused legal advice to stakeholders and build capability within those teams.
* Collaborate across legal and policy divisions internally and externally on legal policy issues.
* Build and sustain productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure cooperative solution-focused legal service delivery within constrained timeframes.
* Represent the department at Senate Estimates hearings, parliamentary inquiries, and other external-facing meetings and events.
This role requires significant technical expertise in delivering complex legal services and developing legislation. You must demonstrate exceptional judgment, problem-solving skills, and efficiency, as well as high standards of integrity and professionalism.