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Chief Counsel - Canberra, Australia - Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

DescriptionSenior Executive Service Band - Canberra, ACT

About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations

We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.


The Role

As Chief Counsel / First Assistant Secretary of the Workplace Relations Legal Division, you will lead a team responsible for providing legal advice to Government on workplace relations, work health and safety, and workers' compensation matters; supporting the development of legislative reform; and management of workplace relations litigation involving the Minister responsible for Workplace Relations.

The Chief Counsel, along with the Workplace Relations Legal Division, will work closely with the three
policy divisions in the Workplace Relations Group throughout the design process of legislative policy
matters, to ensure an integrated approach to reforms across the Workplace Relations Group.

Capabilities
We are seeking individuals with the following skills and capabilities:

  • demonstrable record of achievement in leading teams to deliver outcomes and a proven ability to balance multiple competing priorities.
- ability to think strategically, work collaboratively to implement government priorities in a complex, challenging and time critical environment.
- excellent understanding of Australia's workplace relations framework or the ability to quickly acquire this knowledge.
- excellent representational and relationship management skills, sound judgement, drive and initiative.

Qualifications and Education

  • Law degree from an Australian tertiary institution or a comparable overseas qualification.
  • Admitted as a practitioner, however described, of the High Court or the Supreme Court of an Australian State or Territory.

How to Apply

Applicants are required to provide a pitch of no more than 750 words that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy.

You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

Please remember to address your understanding of the issues affecting First Nations peoples.

If you require further information, please contact:

Contact:
Jonathan Beaumont

Company:
Beaumont and Beaumont

Phone:


The SES work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected at each classification level.


Eligibility

Citizenship - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

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