Your Opportunity

The Director, Legal Services is the senior legal officer at QRIC, reporting to the Deputy Commissioner and overseeing all legal, governance, and strategic functions. This role requires strong leadership and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Leadership: Providing direction to the Legal team to uphold integrity in the Queensland racing industry, ensuring ethical and governance standards.

• Regulatory & Legal Oversight: Leading legal functions, including prosecutions, internal reviews, and tribunal matters, while ensuring compliance with policy and regulatory standards.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with agencies such as Crown Law and law enforcement to enhance QRIC’s statutory functions.

• Legislative & Policy Development: Leading legislative change proposals and advising on the effectiveness of the regulatory framework.

• Legal Advisory & Advocacy: Providing clear, concise legal advice on complex matters and acting as an advocate where required.

• Continuous Improvement & Capability Building: Driving initiatives to improve stakeholder experiences and enhance legal team performance.

• Executive Leadership: Contributing to QRIC’s strategic direction as part of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), ensuring alignment with Commission objectives.

• Workplace Culture & Compliance: Fostering a high-performance environment, ensuring safety, integrity, and ethical conduct.

This role supervises the legal team and plays a critical role in shaping QRIC’s legal and governance framework.

What We Are Looking For

Admitted to practice as a lawyer/legal practitioner of the Supreme Court of Queensland and hold a current practicing certificate with 10 years post admission.

All employees are expected to role model leadership behaviours. This role requires the leadership competencies of a Project Leader as outlined in the Leadership competencies for Queensland.

You will be required to demonstrate the following:

• Proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment and excels with a high level of autonomy.

• Results-driven with a strong focus on achievement, eager to transform strategy into tangible outcomes and take ownership of projects from inception to completion.

• Strong understanding of ICT infrastructure, digital systems, emerging technologies, cybersecurity and data management.

• Exceptional digital transformation expertise and critical thinking skills.

• A balanced leader who combines vision, practicality, problem-solving abilities and a servant-leader mindset to inspire and support others whilst collaborating effectively with internal and external stakeholders.

• Experience in leading digital initiatives from inception to delivery, guiding organisations through digital transitions and ensuring successful adoption.

• Strong ability and experience in leveraging data and systems to optimise organisational performance through effective data capture, analysis, reporting and evidence-based continual improvement activities.

• Strong diligence and commitment to maintaining cybersecurity best practices to ensure data security and regulatory compliance.

• Experience in managing budgets, cost optimisation and ensuring return on investment on digital projects.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex digital concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• High level of initiative, resilience and adaptability in a dynamic and changing environment.

Additional Information

• To be appointed to this position, you must be an Australian citizen and have permanent residency status or a visa permitting you to work in Australia. You are required to notify QRIC if your right to work in Australia ceases.

• Flexible work arrangements may be considered for the role.

• A three-month probationary period applies to successful candidates external to the public sector.

• All employees are subject to a mandatory gambling restrictions policy that prohibits gambling on racing events throughout Australia and internationally and must declare and disclose all gambling accounts.

• Newly appointed public service employees must disclose any employment as a lobbyist in the previous two years within one month of starting.

• All employees are subject to a conflict-of-interest policy and must sign a conflict-of-interest form. You may be precluded from consideration for this position if any private interest or relationship constitutes a conflict of interest under the Conflict-of-Interest Policy, guidelines and procedures that cannot be reasonably managed.

• Applications may remain current for 12 months and may be considered for recurring vacancies. These may be at an alternative location or for an alternative employment basis.

Pre-employment checks

Employment offers will be subject to pre-employment checks, which may include:

• Referee checks.

• Criminal history check.

• Probity check.

• Serious discipline history declaration.

• Proof of eligibility of appointment to the Queensland public sector.