Senior Project Officer

As Senior Project Officer, reporting to the Executive Director – Governance and Legal, you will be responsible for providing support to the governance and legal teams to facilitate the achievement of EDQ project objectives. Specifically, you will provide effective and efficient project and corporate administrative support services with a focus on the procurement and contract management of commercial legal services to EDQ.

Key Duties Include

• Manage the workflow management of legal services for development and infrastructure proposals, projects and legal requests.
• Undertake research and project manage the delivery of minor governance/legal outcomes.
• Support legal projects and project teams to ensure the effective and timely implementation of objectives.
• Manage the procurement of legal contractors, products and services for EDQ projects in accordance with procurement guidelines and the whole of government legal panel arrangements.
• Coordinate and aid in the administration and ongoing management of legal contracts.
• Prepare and coordinate legal project documentation such as status reports, project budget management, record management and project registers.
• Assist with the preparation of high-quality presentations, briefings, reports, submissions and correspondence.
• Utilise, review and update project guidelines, documents, procedures, business systems, processes, databases and information systems to ensure effective and efficient service delivery.
• Consult and liaise with a range of stakeholders to coordinate stakeholder inputs and achieve outcomes.
• Liaise with external law firms and assist with the management of and reporting on external law firm performance.
• Be the subject matter expert for TRIM requirements and maintain efficient correspondence and records management, filing and information retrieval systems

Applications to remain current for 12 months

Job Ad Reference: QLD/623006/25

Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 March 2025

Occupational group Justice & Legal