• CBD location
• Fixed term from 15 February 2021 until 30 September 2022
• Full-time (76 hours per fortnight)

The Principal Adviser, Legal is responsible for establishing, implementing and monitoring strategies relating to Family Safety Victoria’s corporate integrity and compliance responsibilities.

The Principal Adviser, Legal, leads complex legal policy and project work to support Family Safety Victoria as an Administrative Office, including coordinating responses to subpoenas; advising on whole of organisation regulatory and legal compliance requirements; privacy; freedom of information; public interest disclosures; and overseeing complaints and investigations.

Based on the Organisational Transformation and Capability Unit, within the Office of the CEO, the Principal Adviser, Legal, will devise new ways of integrating existing strategies, policies and practices to enhance the delivery and efficiency of internal services.

Our Organisation

Family Safety Victoria is the first government organisation dedicated to ending family violence. It will deliver key initiatives to help protect, support and identify risk for those impacted by family violence and hold perpetrators to account. We will also coordinate access to services that support vulnerable children and families.

Selection Criteria

Knowledge and skills

1. Policy skills: formulates and communicates public policy options and recommendations; keeps up-to-date with a broad range of contemporary issues; scans for links and potential implications of proposed policy options; liaises with stakeholders.
2. Problem solving: seeks all relevant information for problem-solving; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems; implements solutions, evaluates effectiveness and adjusts actions as required.
3. Systems thinking: diagnoses trends, obstacles and opportunities in the internal and external environment; understands the linkages between natural systems and communities to inform policy; conceptualises and defines the systems working within the organisation.
4. Self-management: invites feedback on own behaviour and impact; uses new knowledge or information about self to build a broader understanding of own behaviour and the impact it has on others; understands strong emotional reactions and seeks ways to more effectively manage them.

Personal qualities

1. Integrity: committed to the public interest; operates in a manner that is consistent with the organisation’s code of conduct; inspires trust by treating all individuals fairly.
2. Initiative and accountability: proactive and self-starting; seizes opportunities and acts upon them; takes responsibility for own actions.
3. Creativity and innovation: generates new ideas, draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things, actively influences events and promotes ideas, translates creative ideas into workplace improvements, reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.
4. Teamwork: cooperates and works well with others in pursuit of team goals, collaborates and shares information, shows consideration, concern and respect for others feelings and ideas, accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others, encourages resolution of conflict within the group.

Safety Screening

• All applicants are subject to a National Police History Check.
• If the candidate is required to be the Family Safety Victoria Privacy Coordinator, a security clearance may be required for this role.
• Applicants who have lived overseas for 12 months or longer during the past 10 years are required to provide the results of an international police check. Applicants should contact the relevant overseas police force to obtain this and submit as part of their application. Details of overseas police agencies are available on the Department of Immigration website www.immi.gov.au and can be searched for under the phrase, ‘penal clearance certificate’.

Qualifications

Qualifications in law and/or public policy are highly desirable.

Conditions and benefits

People who work for Family Safety Victoria must comply with the Code of Conduct for Victorian Public Sector Employees 2015 and agree to work according to our values of quality, collaborative relationships, responsibility, client focus, professional integrity and respect.

Employees of Family Safety Victoria can enjoy a range of generous Victorian Government employment benefits. These include attractive salaries, flexible leave arrangements and training and development opportunities. Please see www.careers.vic.gov.au/why/benefits-conditions.

Family Safety Victoria promotes diversity and equal opportunity in employment. If you are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicant, or if you have a disability, and require advice and support with the recruitment process, please contact the Diversity Unit on [email protected], using the subject line: Principal Adviser, Legal enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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A position description is attached.