Work Type: Fixed-term - Full-time
Salary: $62,104 - $79,753
Grade: VPS 2
Occupation: Legal
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: VG/DE/PES/1951064
About us
The Department of Education (the department) is responsible for delivering and regulating state-wide learning and development services to approximately one-third of all Victorians across the early childhood and school education sectors. The department is also one of Victoria's biggest employers, with approximately 80,000 teaching staff and around 5,000 public service employees.
The Legal Division provides highly valued legal services to support the delivery of the department's strategic objectives, key reforms and to manage legal risk. In doing so, Legal Division provides direct, practical and strategic legal advice to portfolio ministers, the secretary, other senior staff and over 1,600 government schools, supporting approximately over 650,000 Victorian Government school students.
About the opportunity
An exciting opportunity exists for enthusiastic and motivated students who are currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor (full or part-time, undertaking between their second to penultimate year of studies as at 2026) to join our talented pool of law clerks. There are multiple 12-month fixed term roles available, each offering a minimum of 2 days per week, with extra shifts available in surge periods. Our law clerks are also supported to balance their study commitments with time off to undertake exams.
This role offers exposure to a diverse range of work including litigation, negligence, discrimination and employment law, family law, human rights law, commercial and property law, construction law, governance and legislative and regulatory reform. Law clerks participate in a rotation program across work units within the division which provides fantastic legal training in a range of practice areas, along with an opportunity to build organisational knowledge across the corporate areas of the department. The program sees law clerks assigned to a team for 6-month periods, rotating across practice areas.
Law clerks work alongside highly experienced and passionate lawyers and will be able to explore the benefits of working in a large in-house legal department, gain practical experience, acquire insight into a career in government law, experience our professional culture and understand the variety of work performed by lawyers in the Legal Division.
The role involves assisting with responding to subpoenas and other requests for information as well as assisting with provision of legal advice in a broad range of areas including:
Why join us?
Qualifications
Essential: Currently enrolled in a Bachelor of Laws or Juris Doctor (full or part-time student, undertaking between their second to penultimate year of studies as at 2026) with a minimum weighted average mark of 75%.
How to apply
Applicants are required to submit:
For more details regarding this exciting opportunity please see the attached position description.
You can also contact Executive Director, Lucy Guthrie on (03) 7022 0925 or [email protected].
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