Career defining opportunity to play a technical, leadership and strategic role as part of Crown Law’s leading employment & public law team

• Key leadership role of a high performing, collegiate & collaborative team
• Broad and interesting mix of complex, sensitive employment law matters
• ~$193k package + attraction and retention incentive + flexibility & WFH

The Department:
Intellectually stimulating, professionally engaging, personally rewarding and lifestyle accommodating is the basis of a career with Crown Law. With five legal branches and 15 teams, a broad range of legal services are offered servicing the Queensland Government across significant, high profile projects and matters.

Job details

About the role:

The Assistant Crown Solicitor, Workplace Law is a key, legal specialist role responsible for the leadership, management and co-ordination of the activities and performance of the Workplace Law Team at Crown Law. Reporting to the Deputy Crown Solicitor for the area and working closely with two other Assistant Crown Solicitors and the Practice Manager in a collegiate, collaborative team, your work will include:

• acting as an expert advisor across a broad range of often complex and sensitive employment law matters in the State and Federal jurisdictions as well as providing advice on associated administrative law matters to a range of government clients;
• leading, managing and supervising a high performing team to achieve customer focussed and results oriented legal advice;
• building and developing strong client relationships across Crown Law's clients including being a key client manager for nominated clients;
• ensuring that productivity and revenue targets are met including the effective allocation of work and reporting these to Crown Law's Strategic Leadership Team;
• leading, developing and maintaining an existing high performance and continuous improvement culture that addresses performance issues, develops the team and promotes the full potential of each team member; and
• driving innovation and modernisation within the legal function by supporting new strategies, technologies, and best practices.

Skills/Experience:

To be considered for this role you will have:

• 10+ years' PAE in employment and workplace law (ideally with large law firm experience) equipping you with the skills to both manage your own complex file load as well as supervise and settle work completed by your team;
• demonstrated successful leadership of a high performance legal team focussed on excellent client outcomes, strong financial performance;
• an optimistic outlook fostering a positive, respectful, collaborative and inclusive workplace culture;
• the confidence, gravitas and experience to advise and work closely with senior executives including Ministers, Director Generals on complex legal matters;
• an engaging, customer centric, solutions focussed approach with key stakeholders fostering effective relationships; and
• a passion for innovation and continuous improvement of legal service delivery.

Benefits:

Awaiting you is:

• the opportunity to play a leadership role in an already high performing, highly regarded function of Crown Law;
• challenging, strategic and often high-profile legal work;
• a flexible working environment with excellent employment conditions including flexible working hours, up to 2 days work from home and various leave provisions;
• professional development programs; and
• work from home options
• salary package up to ~ $193,000.
• a 15% attraction and retention incentive in accordance with Crown Law's scheme for Assistant Crown Solicitors.

Apply now:

APPLY or contact Peter Liaw at Peppercorn Recruitment on 1300 804 625 or email peter@peppercornrecruitment.com.au, quoting reference number 3909549. Please submit your resume in Word format only.

Applying online through the Smart jobs and careers website www.smartjobs.qld.gov.au is the preferred means to submit an application. To do this, access the 'apply online' facility on the Smart jobs and careers website. You will need to create a 'My SmartJob' account before submitting your online application.

Peppercorn Recruitment has been exclusively retained to recruit this role. All third party applications will be forwarded to Peppercorn Recruitment for consideration in the process.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

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Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• 633756 25 - Role Description (Word, 1.61MB)
  
  
  633756 25 - Candidate Application Pack - Crown Law (PDF, 4.01MB)