Main activities • Ensuring that all legislation affecting the organisation is researched and that comments are passed on to relevant managers. • Ensuring senior managers and the board of directors are informed about new or proposed legislation which may affect the organisation’s activities. • May appear in court to represent the organisation or brief counsel on legal matters, ensuring that the organisation is effectively represented in any legal action in which it is involved. • Preparing and authorising security documents. • Advising staff on relevant procedures in non-routine security • Liaising with Government officials on matters which affect the organisation’s present and future activities. • Controlling all the organisation’s share transactions. • Ensuring that the company operates fully within the law at all times, but with special reference to its methods of business, its contractual relations, and its process of negotiation.

Key skills • Excellent communications skills. • Ability to interpret legal requirements which apply to relevant business operations. • General managerial experience.

Internal contacts Regulatory affairs manager, CEO.

External contacts External solicitors and appraisers, corporate affairs department.

Typical experience A legal degree and registered as a solicitor with at least 8 to 10 years experience in legal aspects.

Our Not-for-Profit Organisation is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation. The filling of this position is intended to constitute a special measure under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), and s12 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic) and s8(4) of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic). Preference may be given during selection to suitably qualified applicants who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander