Administration Assistant

Chambers Russell Lawyers

Chambers Russell Lawyers is a fast-growing firm with its head office located in the Sydney CBD. We practice across commercial, construction, civil litigation, debt-recovery, insurance, personal injury, strata and property law.

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced administrative assistant to join our team in our Tugun office.

Previous administrative assistant experience within the legal industry would be advantageous but not essential. In this role you will be provided with the opportunity to learn from our talented senior staff members and grow in your role within this supportive team environment. This exciting role will see you assisting members of your team to provide seamless support across the business.

You will be enthusiastic and pragmatic in your approach, possess excellent communication skills and have a keen eye for detail and excellent time management skills.

A commitment to investing in our firm, learning the work that we do and executing on getting that work done is what we are looking for in the ideal candidate.

Key Duties:

In this Administrative Assistant role, your day-to-day duties may include:

• Greeting clients;
• Answering and directing incoming reception calls;
• Taking new enquiries;
• Maintaining Reception and general office areas;
• Collecting, processing and distributing mail;
• Office supply ordering;
• Assisting with filing, printing, scanning and photocopying;
• Opening and closing matters;
• File management;
• Diary management;
• Scheduling meetings/conferences;
• Liaising with clients;
• Conducting searches;
• Archiving;
• Filing and service of documents; and
• Other adhoc tasks as requested.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Minimum two years previous experience as a receptionist, administrative assistant, personal assistant, team assistant or legal assistant within professional services;
• Excellent attention to detail together with strong verbal and written communication skills;
• Well developed time management skills;
• A willingness to learn, positive approach and strong initiative;
• Advanced skills in the MS Office suite (specifically Word, Excel & PowerPoint).

Our value proposition

We think that the following features of Chambers Russell Lawyers distinguish us from our peers:

• Chambers Russell Lawyers is a "people first" organisation. This means that we aim to recruit and retain great people. We provide competitive remuneration and real opportunity for organic career growth all the way through to partnership.
• We have a high performance culture but keep things simple. Our mandate is to solve problems and add value.
• We are committed to ensuring that our lawyers are supported to forge the legal careers that they want for themselves. We do this by securing high-quality work across a diversity of clients; we promote lawyer mobility across our practice areas; and we constantly work to ensure the objectives of the firm, our people and our clients are aligned.
• We believe that innovation and technology will continue to transform the way that legal services and solutions are provided. As a result, we are heavily invested in legal-tech development. Wherever possible, we integrate process innovation and technology with our practice of law to improve outcomes for all of our stakeholders.
• We aim to do good in the world. We will not take on work or clients where doing so would compromise our values.

Remuneration

We provide competitive remuneration commensurate with experience. We are also committed to reviewing remuneration annually to ensure that our staff are receiving remuneration commensurate with the value they deliver to our team and clients over time.

Expressions of interest

If you think that you are the right candidate for this position then we want to hear from you. Please apply via Seek including a cover letter and curriculum vitae.