Vacancy Details


The Senior Legal Adviser supports the Principal Legal Adviser and provides client-focused high level, specialist legal and strategic advice and support to Comcare staff to ensure compliance with statutory obligations. The Senior Legal Adviser will resolve problems and manage risk effectively and manage their own workload in a manner consistent with the APS Values and Code of Conduct, the Legal Services Directions 2017, and internal Comcare procedures.

The Senior Legal Adviser will achieve organisational objectives through successful planning and participating, contributing and collaborating across Comcare and with external stakeholders. The Senior Legal Adviser manages a small team that has responsibility for Comcare’s obligations under various statutory processes and is responsible for:

  • legal research, analysis and evaluation, preparing reports and providing advice in administrative law areas including Privacy and FOI
  • nurturing complex relationships with internal and external stakeholders including clients, service providers, licensees and premium payers
  • supervision, quality assurance, training, support and development of other team members
  • initiating and driving continuous improvement and managing change.

Qualifications required: 

  • Undergraduate degree in law.
  • Admission as a legal practitioner of the High Court or the Supreme Court of an Australian State or Territory.
  • Current Practising Certificate.

How to apply

Please review the Job Information Pack below and provide a statement of claims with your responses outlining what you could bring to this position including your skills, experience and knowledge relevant to the job specific capabilities and role (maximum 2 pages).