- Coordinate legal requests in a fast-paced environment
- Help turn evidence and lessons into better health outcomes for people in prison
- Work with a small team where your work can make a real difference.
- Ongoing, full-time role earning $100,894 - $114,476 per year, plus super.

About This Role

- Coordinate legal requests in a fast-paced setting
- Help turn evidence and lessons into better health outcomes for people in prison
- Work with a small team where your work can make a real difference.
- Ongoing, full-time role earning $100,894 - $114,476 per year, plus super.

What You Will Do

Support the Legal and Coronial team to manage correspondence and coordinate responses to legal requests, including statements, affidavits, and recommendations resulting from internal reviews, coronial and other inquiries. This work requires close attention to detail and excellent organisational skills to produce responses to numerous and varied requests for information, in a time pressured environment.

To be successful, you will be able to understand new subject matter quickly, demonstrate appropriate initiative, engage constructively with stakeholders, and have a strong capacity to draft accurate, timely and audience-appropriate documents. Experience in a legal and/or health setting, and an effective understanding of government processes, would be an advantage.

You Will

- manage varied legal requests, correspondence, statements and affidavits
- draft accurate responses to coronial matters, reviews and other inquiries
- maintain reliable records and systems for tracking legal requests
- build effective working relationships to help resolve legal requests




- support a positive, inclusive team and contribute to other duties as needed.

About You

A tertiary qualification in law, public policy or health is desirable. No mandatory qualification is listed for this role.

You have experience with government or legal processes and can manage detailed work under time pressure.

You Should Also Have

- sound knowledge of Victorian government administrative or legal processes
- strong experience drafting responses and other documents for legal or policy work
- flexible and cooperative ways of working, with a focus on inclusion
- clear communication, sound judgement and a focus on solving problems and improving work.

To learn even more about this role, please read the position description. If you have any further questions, feel free to email Ruby Bishop at

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander (Aboriginal) people are strongly encouraged to apply.

Learn more about our Aboriginal workforce strategy.

Important Information

Child safe statement of commitment

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.

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📌 Project Officer, Legal and Coronial (Melbourne)
🏢 Department of Justice and Community Safety, Victoria
📍 Melbourne