We are seeking a motivated and committed Senior Legal Officer with stakeholder relationship experience, the ability to build and maintain positive and effective relationships with team members and the ability to provide advice for departmental officers to ensure compliance with relevant legislation.

Are you passionate about developing your capabilities and contributing positively to a team?

Job details

Our Department's Legal Services Unit is responsible for providing advice on all DTET legal matters. The unit also includes the Right to Information and Information Privacy unit. Focusing on ethics and integrity, the Legal Services Unit ensures DTET conducts itself with the highest degree of accountability and compatibility with governing operating and legal frameworks. This close-knit team values initiative, creative thinking, collaboration, and challenging the current way of doing things.

About the role:
As the Senior Legal Officer, you will:
• Provide high-quality and timely legal advice to senior officers on a range of complex issues, including contracts and commercial law, administrative law, corporate governance, policy, complaints, litigation and property law.
• Provide independent, comprehensive and impartial legal advice without fear or favour.
• Prepare complex documents, such as Ministerial briefings, responses, cabinet submissions, briefing notes and detailed advice and recommendations.
• Represent and advocate for the Director-General and DTET through coordination, consultation and negotiation on external legal service providers.

What we are looking for:
The position requires an applicant who can:
• Demonstrate knowledge of legal services practices to effectively manage and provide complex advice on a range of legal services matters.
• Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills, along with analytical abilities, including the ability to prepare and coordinate written advice, detailed submissions and correspondence responses within tight timeframes, ensuring compliance with all relevant legislation, common law and whole-of-Government policy.
• Demonstrate knowledge of legislation to provide effective advice on complex matters relating to RTI, privacy and complaints.
• Prepare advice for departmental officers to ensure compliance with all relevant legislation, common law and whole-of-Government policy.
• Exhibit the ability to build and maintain positive and effective relationships with team members, set priorities, develop sound solutions and contribute to improving work practices
• Demonstrate the ability to monitor and report on new and emerging developments in the delivery of legal services within government.

Refer to the Role Description for a full list of responsibilities and what we are looking for.

How to apply:
To apply, please submit the below via the SmartJobs application page:
• Your current resume.
• Provide a covering letter (of up to one page) addressing the ‘What we are looking for' statements in the Role Description. 

Please ensure you refer to the Role Description 'Interested in applying' section for more information on what to include as part of your application. We're committed to appointing the best-suited person for each role. This includes considering equity,
diversity, respect, and inclusion needs within our agency. We believe that these elements are essential for the success of our team, and we strongly encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply. If you require any reasonable adjustments to fully participate in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to reach out to the designated contact for the vacancy.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.

Job Ad Reference: QLD/689852/26

Closing Date: Monday, 08 June 2026

Further information

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

Please ensure you download all attachments and follow the instructions on how to apply

Documents

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

• Applicant Information Package 2026 (PDF, 787KB)
  
  
  689852 26 Role Description v1 (Word, 297KB)