Legal Secretary, Strategic Litigation

• PIAC conducts litigation on a broad range of public interest issues
• Use your initiative and sound judgment to support PIAC’s legal team
• Permanent, part time, 3 days, ideally Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

The Public Interest Advocacy Centre is a leading social justice law and policy centre. We build a fairer, stronger society by helping to change laws, policies and practices that cause injustice and inequality.

PIAC offers a dynamic workplace where wellbeing is promoted, and flexibility supported.

Reporting to the Principal Solicitor and working closely with another legal secretary, you will provide administrative and practice management support to PIAC’s legal team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Records management
• Litigation and casework support
• Reception cover, client liaison and conflict checking
• General administration and team support

You have secretarial experience, ideally in a legal practice. You are proficient in drafting plain language correspondence, can prioritise your workload and develop workflow systems and processes. You have advanced MS Office skills, an accurate typing speed and familiarity using a database. Your attributes include:

• Capacity to exercise sound judgement in dealing with sensitive, confidential matters
• Confident and courteous approach to assisting a range of people
• Ability to work cooperatively in a team

If you would like to support PIAC’s litigation team to achieve systemic change, leading to widespread benefits to the community, please send your resume along with a covering letter and responses to the knowledge, skills and experience section included in the attached position description.

Details

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How to Apply

Inquiries should be directed to Camilla Pandolfini via cpandolfini@piac.asn.au 

Please send your application to jobs@piac.asn.au, including Legal Secretary in the subject field.  Please note there is no application close date, and we invite you to apply as soon as possible.

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