Job Description
Job description
Agency Attorney-General’s Department Work unit Legal Services
Job title Executive Director, Legal Services Designation Executive Contract Officer 3
Job type Full time Duration Fixed from 16/04/2026 for 4 years
Remuneration package $269,482 Location Darwin
Position number 48556 RTF 336708 Closing 22/02/2026
Contact officer Leonique Swart, A/Chief Executive Officer on 08 8935 7426 or Leonique.swart@nt.gov.au
About the agency https://agd.nt.gov.au/homepage
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=336708
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates
people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or
job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go
to the OCPE website. Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special
Measures plans, go to the OCPE website.
Primary objective
Be responsible for and lead the Legal Services Division to ensure the provision of high quality, timely and cost-effective legal
services to Government and its Agencies as well as financial assistance to victims of violent crimes and advice on victim issues.
Context statement
Adopting the model litigant principles, the Legal Services Division is responsible for leading and coordinating legal services and
financial assistance for victims of violent crimes for the Department and Government. The Executive Director, Legal Services, is a
member of the Department’s Executive Leadership Group.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide high quality strategic legal advice to the Chief Executive Officer, the Attorney-General, Government and key
stakeholders across a range of legal issues, managing legal matters of heightened sensitivity and risk.
2. Provide strategic direction for the delivery of Legal Services by the Solicitor for the Northern Territory, and financial assistance
and services to victims of violent crimes by the Crimes Victims Services Unit.
3. Deliver results through leadership, driving a culture of accountability, performance and partnership; modelling the values of the
organisation as an executive leader; and fostering a focus on quality outcomes and advice across the Department, the
Government and its Agencies.
4. Lead and drive coordination of legal requests across government including outsourcing of legal matters to the private sector
via the NT Legal Services List.
5. Ensure Government is receiving value for money on legal services through cost effective management of resources from both
internal and external sources.
6. Build and maintain effective partnerships and strategic alliances at the highest levels across the NT Government, statutory
office holders, and with inter-jurisdictional counterparts and key stakeholders locally and federally.
7. Effectively and proactively lead the Department’s and NT’s interest at local and national forums and on cross agency
Committees as required.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Admission to practice as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory or eligibility for such admission.
2. Extensive practical experience in the provision of legal advice in a government context.
3. Demonstrated understanding of the issues and considerations in the provision of Legal Services in Government.
4. Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic plans to drive performance, and in managing organisational and financial matters.
5. Highly developed ability to exercise sound judgement, interpret the broader social political environment and communicate with
influence.
6. Demonstrated senior executive leadership experience in leading and managing multiple, diverse teams to achieve results with
an ability to positively lead change, deal with conflict and uncertainty, communicate with influence and build organisational
capability.
7. High level problem solving, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to establish and sustain productive
working relationships and strategic alliances within the public and private sectors, and the wider community.
Desirable
1. Experience in legal practice or demonstrated in depth understanding of contemporary issues facing the justice system.
2. Experience practising law in the Northern Territory.
Further information
The successful applicant will be required to undergo a criminal history check. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from
this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. The pre-employment form is to be submitted with your online application, to
support the selection panel in assessing your application.
Agency Attorney-General’s Department Work unit Legal Services
Job title Executive Director, Legal Services Designation Executive Contract Officer 3
Job type Full time Duration Fixed from 16/04/2026 for 4 years
Remuneration package $269,482 Location Darwin
Position number 48556 RTF 336708 Closing 22/02/2026
Contact officer Leonique Swart, A/Chief Executive Officer on 08 8935 7426 or Leonique.swart@nt.gov.au
About the agency https://agd.nt.gov.au/homepage
Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=336708
APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR
TERTIARY QUALIFICATIONS.
Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans
The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates
people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or
job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go
to the OCPE website. Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special
Measures plans, go to the OCPE website.
Primary objective
Be responsible for and lead the Legal Services Division to ensure the provision of high quality, timely and cost-effective legal
services to Government and its Agencies as well as financial assistance to victims of violent crimes and advice on victim issues.
Context statement
Adopting the model litigant principles, the Legal Services Division is responsible for leading and coordinating legal services and
financial assistance for victims of violent crimes for the Department and Government. The Executive Director, Legal Services, is a
member of the Department’s Executive Leadership Group.
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Provide high quality strategic legal advice to the Chief Executive Officer, the Attorney-General, Government and key
stakeholders across a range of legal issues, managing legal matters of heightened sensitivity and risk.
2. Provide strategic direction for the delivery of Legal Services by the Solicitor for the Northern Territory, and financial assistance
and services to victims of violent crimes by the Crimes Victims Services Unit.
3. Deliver results through leadership, driving a culture of accountability, performance and partnership; modelling the values of the
organisation as an executive leader; and fostering a focus on quality outcomes and advice across the Department, the
Government and its Agencies.
4. Lead and drive coordination of legal requests across government including outsourcing of legal matters to the private sector
via the NT Legal Services List.
5. Ensure Government is receiving value for money on legal services through cost effective management of resources from both
internal and external sources.
6. Build and maintain effective partnerships and strategic alliances at the highest levels across the NT Government, statutory
office holders, and with inter-jurisdictional counterparts and key stakeholders locally and federally.
7. Effectively and proactively lead the Department’s and NT’s interest at local and national forums and on cross agency
Committees as required.
Selection criteria
Essential
1. Admission to practice as a legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory or eligibility for such admission.
2. Extensive practical experience in the provision of legal advice in a government context.
3. Demonstrated understanding of the issues and considerations in the provision of Legal Services in Government.
4. Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic plans to drive performance, and in managing organisational and financial matters.
5. Highly developed ability to exercise sound judgement, interpret the broader social political environment and communicate with
influence.
6. Demonstrated senior executive leadership experience in leading and managing multiple, diverse teams to achieve results with
an ability to positively lead change, deal with conflict and uncertainty, communicate with influence and build organisational
capability.
7. High level problem solving, negotiation, and interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability to establish and sustain productive
working relationships and strategic alliances within the public and private sectors, and the wider community.
Desirable
1. Experience in legal practice or demonstrated in depth understanding of contemporary issues facing the justice system.
2. Experience practising law in the Northern Territory.
Further information
The successful applicant will be required to undergo a criminal history check. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from
this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. The pre-employment form is to be submitted with your online application, to
support the selection panel in assessing your application.
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