General Counsel – Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0771091
- Agency: Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
- Job Title: General Counsel
- Position Number: 9010022
- Classification: Senior Executive Service Band 1
- Closing Date: Thursday 06 August 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time;Part-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Canberra ACT
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: Future Merit
- Office Arrangement: On Site (Working from home arrangements may be available)
About Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority’s (IPEA) roles and functions reflect those prescribed in the Independent
Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017 and include: • providing advice to parliamentarians and their staff on travel expenses,
allowances, and related expenses • administering travel expenses, allowances, and related expenses, including processing these
claims • reporting on work expense claims • auditing work expense claims
Duties
- Provide practical and authoritative legal advice to the CEO and Executive Team on IPEA’s
- statutory, corporate and operational responsibilities including complex and high-risk matters.
- Work with the Leadership Team to identify and manage legal and regulatory risks related to
- IPEA’s legislated functions.
- Manage litigation, disputes, investigations, Freedom of Information (FOI) matters and
- external legal providers to support effective delivery of legal services.
- Lead delivery of IPEA’s assurance program, including post-payment checks, assurance
- reviews and audits of parliamentarians’ work resources and the travel resources of their
- staff.
- Lead the preparation, assurance and publication of expenditure and assurance reporting,
- ensuring reports are compliant, accurate, timely and transparent.
- Develop and maintain trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders to support
- informed decision-making and delivery of branch and organisational objectives.
- Lead branch workforce planning, capability development, resource management,
- performance, and financial management.
- Contribute as a member of the Executive Leadership Team to the strategic direction,
- organisational performance and outcomes of the agency.
- Qualification
- Admission, or eligibility for admission, as an Australian legal practitioner is mandatory. The
- successful candidate must be eligible to hold, and maintain, a current practising certificate in an
- Australian jurisdiction.
- Our ideal candidate
- The successful applicant will demonstrate capability in-line with the SES Band 1 Work Level
- and will have the following capabilities and qualities: Standards
- Leadership and accountability
- Management diversity and span
- Stakeholder management
- Job context and environment
- Independence and decision-making
- Enterprise Leadership
- For further information regarding these review the candidate information capabilities and qualities
- pack on the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority . website
Eligibility / Notes
- This is a designated security assessed position. The successful applicant will be required to have
- or obtain and maintain a security assessment at the Negative Vetting 1 level.
How to Apply
Position Contact Beth Pahl, 6215 1368
Agency Recruitment Site https://www.ipea.gov.au/about-ipea/employment
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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