Senior Solicitor in Parramatta

Department: LRLS Legal Advisings & Comm Protection

Department/Agency: Department of Communities and Justice

Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150

Employment type: Temporary position (8 months) – Full time (35 hours per week)

Salary: Legal Officer – Grade 5, Base Salary ($159,035 – $162,153), plus employer’s contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role:

Provide high level legal advice and litigation services on complex areas of law and policy while supervising a skilled legal team. Influence law reform, develop policy, and ensure efficient, high quality legal services that make a real impact in the community.

What you’ll do:

• As part of the Advising and Community Protection Team, provide expert legal advice, manage complex and sensitive cases, and contribute to law reform initiatives.
• Lead and mentor legal staff, develop policies, review legislation, and represent the Department in courts and tribunals.
• Design and deliver legal training programs for internal and external stakeholders.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on legislative changes and emerging legal issues.
• Manage high level projects, including law reform, legal standards, and system improvements.
• Monitor team performance, ensuring timely delivery of high quality legal services.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of practice standards and legal precedents.
• Provide guidance on complex legal and policy matters to senior management and staff.
• Conduct research and prepare briefing notes, reports, submissions, deeds, and contracts.
• Promote a culture of professional development, collaboration, and continuous improvement within the team.

What we’re looking for:

• Legal qualifications and eligibility to hold a practising certificate as a government legal practitioner issued by the NSW Law Society.
• Extensive experience in complex legal matters, with the ability to manage contentious or sensitive cases and provide high level strategic advice.
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills, with experience mentoring legal teams and driving high-quality outcomes.
• Current Working with Children Check Clearance and ability to obtain National Security Clearance if required.

We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer:

• A challenging and rewarding career
• Flexible, autonomous work environment
• Competitive pay and conditions
• Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
• Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

We do work that really matters. Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

Applications close: Wednesday, 04 November 2026 at 11:59pm AEST.

For more information about the role or what it’s like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Sarah Christian at sarah.christian@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit. We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.