About the Role
The Practice Manager oversees the administrative, financial, and operational management of the legal practice group, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective, and customer-focused legal services that support the agency’s statutory functions and purpose.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and coordinate administrative support to ensure efficient and effective client service delivery
- Manage financial and operational performance, including preparing monthly financial and operational reports and advising on anomalies
- Coordinate and improve practice management systems, policies and procedures
- Support business planning and provide advice on the management of financial, human and administrative resources
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve business practices, quality assurance and customer outcomes
- Manage complaints in a way that promotes responsive client service and continuous improvement
- Build and maintain collaborative internal and external relationships across the legal and professional services environment
Requirements
- Highly capable and professional practitioner with demonstrated experience supporting service delivery in a complex customer focused environment
- Strong strategic thinking, management and administrative skills
- Ability to analyse and report on financial and operational performance to support informed decision making
- Integrity, sound judgement and discretion
- Ability to operate confidently within a multi disciplined legal or professional services environment
- Clear and effective communication with a diverse range of stakeholders
- Ability to build collaborative relationships that support positive customer and business outcomes
- Proactive, adaptable and comfortable managing competing priorities and high volumes of work
- Maintain a strong focus on quality, accountability and continuous improvement
- Committed to delivering high quality, cost effective and customer focused services that align with public sector values and organisational objectives
Skills
- Business or law related disciplines
- Administrative support
- Financial management
- Operational management
- Reporting
- Business analysis
- Strategic thinking
- Customer service
- Complaints management
- Relationship building
- Communication
Location
- Sydney CBD
Work Type
- Ongoing full-time
- Hybrid working options available
Experience Level
- Clerk Grade: Level 9/10
Education Level
- Degree and/or equivalent experience in business or law related disciplines
Salary/Compensations
- $129,464 p.a. to $142,665 p.a. plus 12% superannuation and annual leave loading
Benefits
- Flexible work options (working from different work locations, variable start/finish times, job sharing)
- Various leave options (recreation, parental, and flex leave of up to 24 days per year)
- Career development including study leave and acting opportunities
- Access to Fitness Passport and employee assistance program
- Annual flu vaccinations
About the Company
- At NSW Trustee and Guardian, our purpose is to support the rights, welfare, and interests of the people of NSW.
- The agency supports the NSW Trustee, the Public Guardian and the Commissioner of Dormant Funds to carry out their statutory functions.
- We provide a range of customer-centred services, including Will-making, trustee, financial management and guardianship services, including some for the state’s most vulnerable people.
- We support over 50,000 customers annually and manage almost seven billion dollars in customer assets.
- A NSW government agency within the Communities and Justice Portfolio, our services help support and protect people at critical moments in their lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Our workplace reflects the diverse community we serve.
- We encourage applications from all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities.
- This includes women, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, the LGBTQIA+ community and people from culturally diverse backgrounds.
