Senior Manager, Legal Policy

About us

The Department of Government Services (DGS) was established on 1 January 2023 to improve everyone's experience of doing business and interacting with the Victorian government. We bring important day-to-day services together in one department to make things easy and seamless for Victorians and businesses. We are doing this by connecting and digitising our systems and platforms across state and local government as well as streamlining our corporate and procurement services. 

About the role 

The Senior Manager, Legal Policy will be responsible for development of policy advice on legislative and regulatory reform across the Government Services Portfolio, working closely with the Office of the General Counsel to deliver and implement law reform.  

This is a new role that presents opportunities to build and foster greater understandings of the nuances between the interface of technology and legal policy development across the Whole of Victorian Government, such as in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in administrative decision-making and as well as opportunities to develop or translate legislation, regulations, standards and policies into machine readable code (Rules as Code) 

The role also provides strategic and legal policy advisory functions to the Director as directed. 

About you 

To be considered for the role, you must be able to demonstrate: 

• Strategic leadership in the development, implementation and evaluation of legislation and regulations.
• Expertise in advising on complex and technical legal and policy issues related to administrative law, privacy and/or regulatory matters. 
• Highly developed communication skills with the ability to inform and influence senior executives, technical specialists and non-legal stakeholders. 
• Ability to continuously monitor and interpret developments in technology, regulation and case law, such as artificial intelligence and digital decision-making. 
• Experience managing a small high-performing, inclusive, respectful and psychologically safe team. 

Mandatory requirements 

• Tertiary qualifications in law or public policy.

For specific responsibilities please review the attached position description here 

This position is only open to applicants with relevant rights to work in Australia. 

How to apply

Apply before the advertised closing date 11:59pm on Monday 16th February 2026. All applications should include:
a resume; and
a cover letter which addresses the key selection criteria (within three pages)

Other relevant information

To be eligible for appointment to this role, applicants will possess corresponding work rights for the advertised employment period. Appointment to an ongoing role is only available to an Australian/New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident. 

Preferred applicants will be required to undertake pre-employment screening, including a Declaration and Consent form, a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check.

DGS actively promotes diversity, inclusion and an equal opportunity workplace. We welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds, including people with disabilities and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All roles at DGS can be worked flexibly, however it may differ from role to role.