• Feel valued for your project management and admin skills
• Leverage your admin skills to support our friendly Class Actions team
• Full-time opportunity from our newly renovated Sydney CBD office

A place for you. It means more here. We bring true purpose, authentic people and a proven path. You bring you.

The Team

We are proud to have a strong Class Actions presence nationally, working to secure justice for our clients in some of the nation's most prominent Class Actions, including the Worley Ltd and Blue Sky shareholder class actions, the Stolen Wages and Stolen Generations class actions, and the Ruby Princess class action. The team is led by an experienced and highly regarded Head of Class Actions and assisted by a dedicated team of Practice Leaders, Special Counsels, Senior Associates and other legal professionals.

The Opportunity

At Shine, we champion better justice for our clients. We're seeking a senior administration assistant to join us onsite, in our newly-renovated Sydney CBD office, as a Legal Operations Assistant to support our Class Actions team on a full-time, permanent basis. With empathy, adaptability and initiative, you will be:

• Act as the first point of contact for administrative enquiries from our Sydney CBD-based Class Actions team, including providing ad hoc support to our Head of Class Actions.
• Coordinating meetings, preparing agendas and minutes, and following up on action items.
• Troubleshooting and taking responsibility for data cleanses of class actions' data, directing the transactional administrative tasks, including diving into these transactional administrative tasks too.
• Reviewing the work of the administration assistant team to ensure compliance with time recording policies, and adherence to workflows.
• Organise functions/training sessions and other work-related events, including arrangements for travel and accommodation for attendees as required.
• Undertaking expense management including credit card reconciliation and invoice payments.
• Assist with client management, including complaint process resolution.
• Preparing high-quality presentations, reports, and business papers to support leadership and client outcomes.
• Handling confidential information with discretion and professionalism.
• Ad hoc attendances to Court during trial periods to support our Class Actions team.

What you’ll bring

• Experience in a similar business operations role essential.
• Experience in similar professional services organisations (e.g. legal, accounting, etc.) essential.
• Strong project management skills essential.
• Proven skills in gathering and analysing reports to produce meaningful insights for senior leadership team members.
• Accurate typing skills with intermediate Word & Excel skills.
• A keen eye for detail in your document management and collation skills.
• You’ll be a great communicator both verbally and in writing.
• The availability to work from our Sydney CBD office Monday - Friday, 8:15am - 5:00pm.

Shine Lawyers: A place for you. It means more here.

At Shine, purpose really matters.

• It’s our clients, who summon the courage to stand up to injustice.
• It’s the communities we are part of and support every day.
• It’s our team, who champion what’s right and make this place what it is.

We’re an ASX-listed organisation, and we've been standing up for the rights of everyday Australians for more than 50 years. We’ve achieved a lot, but you’ll find no airs and graces here. We’re humble yet relentless. We don’t pretend to be anything other than ourselves. And together, we’ve created a place for you to thrive.

Here are some of the things we hope you’ll love about working with us:

• Connect and be you: Get the benefits you need, and work with truly authentic people. And you can enjoy the security of a large, well-established firm that treats you as a person, not a number.
• Challenge and be challenged: We’re not here for “easy”. We want you to take your place at Shine and make a real impact. Question and challenge - that’s how we grow.
• Achieve and grow: Start your Shine journey with our in-house learning programs, where you’ll find immediate connection and be set up for success. You will be provided real opportunities to step up and grow - within your role and beyond.

Visit https://www.shine.com.au/careers/life-shine to find out more and read the stories of our incredible people.

Excited to join us and stand up to injustice? Join us and build a career that means so much more.

Apply now and make Shine Justice a place for you.

As part of The Circle Back Initiative, we want you to feel supported through our recruitment process, which means that you will hear back from our friendly team – no matter the outcome.

We are committed to making Shine Lawyers a place for you by encouraging and supporting our people to bring their authentic selves to the workplace, and as a result, we know you’ll put your best self forward while righting wrong for our clients. We’re passionate about maintaining a diverse and inclusive environment here at Shine that celebrates all of our differences with age, disability, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation, to name a few, and we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates. You bring you.