P04 Senior Legal Officer

Our client is seeking a Senior Legal Officer to join their dynamic team.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to provide legal and policy advice, ensuring the organisation's legal compliance.

You will be working independently, leading and operationalising project outcomes, and providing secretariat support.

This is a temporary full-time position, offering flexible working hours until September 2025.

What you'll do : As a Senior Legal Officer, your role will be pivotal in providing legal and policy advice to ensure the organisation's legal compliance.

You will work independently, leading projects from inception through to completion.

Your ability to identify and respond to the operational impact of new or adjusted jurisdictions will be crucial in this role.

Additionally, you will prepare draft practice directions, notices, instruments or forms while ensuring the legal content of any related web content and registry policies or procedures are accurate.

Your excellent communication skills will be utilised as you liaise with a range of legal and government stakeholders on issues relevant to business.

Provide legal and policy advice under the supervision of the Principal Legal Officer.

Lead and operationalise project outcomes.

Provide secretariat support to the Rules Committee.

Identify and respond to the operational impact of new or adjusted jurisdictions conferred on the organisation.

Prepare draft practice directions, notices, instruments or forms, and check the legal content of any related web content and registry policies or procedures.

Work with a range of legal and government stakeholders on issues relevant to business.

Prepare briefing notes, advices, reports and other correspondence to inform and advise on key legal and policy matters.

What you bring : As a Senior Legal Officer, you bring a wealth of experience in reading and interpreting legal documents along with providing verbal and written legal advices.

Your ability to work independently with minimal direction sets you apart from others.

You have excellent prioritisation skills that accurately reflect the relative importance of job responsibilities.

Your strong interpersonal skills enable you to negotiate or exchange ideas effectively, establishing rapport and gaining trust of others.

Above all, your commitment to workplace equity, diversity, respect and inclusion is commendable.

Ability to read and interpret legal documents.

Experience in providing verbal and written legal advices.

Ability to work independently with minimal direction.

Excellent prioritisation skills reflecting the relative importance of job responsibilities.

Ability to negotiate or exchange ideas, information and opinions with others.

Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to establish rapport and gain trust of others.

Commitment to workplace equity, diversity, respect and inclusion.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.To apply please click apply or call Madeline Wyld on 61 7 3032 2213 for a confidential discussion.

About the job Contract Type : TEMPORARY Specialism : Government Focus : Legal and Parliamentary Industry : Public Sector and Government Salary : AUD75 - AUD81 per hour + super Workplace Type : On-site Experience Level : Associate Contract Type : TEMPORARY Specialism : Government Focus : Legal and Parliamentary Industry : Public Sector and Government Salary : AUD75 - AUD81 per hour + super Workplace Type : On-site Experience Level : Associate Location : Brisbane CBD TEMPORARYJob Reference : 2065050 / 001 Date posted : 22 May 2025 Consultant : Madeline Wyld brisbane government / legal-and-parliamentary 2025-05-22 2025-06-21 public-sector-and-housing Brisbane CBD Queensland AU AUD 75 81 81 HOUR Robert Walters true #J-18808-Ljbffr