Position OverviewThe position provides support to the Director, Legal and Compliance in managing the Legal and Compliance Team.The team assists the Registrar in performing their functions, including processing, managing, and notifying native title determination applications and ILUA applications, making decisions about the registration of claims and ILUAs, and providing assistance and information services to assist stakeholders to comply with their obligations under the Native Title Act.This role requires strong organisational and administrative decision-making skills, along with initiative and a proactive approach to supporting a team that is dispersed nationally.The Manager may be asked to review the work and decisions of the team as well as provide expert and strategic advice to the Registrar, President, Members, staff of the NNTT as well as other internal and external stakeholders in relation to legal requirements and compliance under the NTA.Managers may also undertake any other task or project assigned to them by the Director, Legal and Compliance.The key duties of the position include:Undertake administrative decision-making by considering claims and ILUA applications for registration.Provide information, advice, and guidance to internal and external stakeholders in relation to native title determination applications, ILUA applications and registration practice and procedural issues.Maintain expert knowledge of native title legislation and regulations and respond to changes in the NTA and the broader native title sector.Ensure content quality assurance through peer review of reasons for decisions, data records and other work, as well as proactive contributions to the monitoring and improvement of standards and consistency of practice and procedure.Contribute to and maintain effective and professional relationships with NNTT stakeholders and establish a culture of service delivery that is flexible, positive, responsive, professional, and accountable.Contribute to ensuring that compliance with processes and procedures is to a high standard, and that effective delivery of services is timely and consistent with the NTA, regulations and administrative law principles.Provide management and supervision to allocated Senior Officers, Legal Research Officers and Graduate Research Officers.Provide professional development and support to team members through supervision, advising, coaching, and mentoring, and by contributing to the ongoing development and maintenance of resources to ensure work is conducted in a timely and effective manner.Respond to information access requests including in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) if needed.Adhere to the Australian Public Service Values and Code of Conduct and consistently behave in an honest, ethical and professional way. #J-18808-Ljbffr