Employment Opportunities at AustLII

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20 May 2003

Expressions of interest sought for positions

The Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII - http://www.austlii.edu.au/)  is employing new staff members for 2003. We encourage people who are suitably qualified for and interested in the positions described below to apply. Applicants may apply for more than one position.

The positions will be located primarily at AustLII's offices at the Markets Campus of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS), in the Faculty of Law. AustLII is a joint facility of the Faculties of Law at UTS and UNSW. AustLII employees are employed as employees of UTS or UNSW. The positions are offered as full time positions but opportunities are available to accommodate the completion of tertiary studies or, in appropriate cases, on a part-time basis.

Information about AustLII's operation can be found in summary form in 'About AustLII', and in more detail in 'The AustLII papers 1999' as published in 2000 (1) JILT. Additional background information can be found in 'The AustLII papers 1997' as published in 1997 (2) JILT.

Applications for this round of AustLII's appointments in 2003 will close on 27 June 2003. However, expressions of interest are welcome at any time.

AustLII is looking for staff to fill some or all of the following positions:

  1. Systems Developer
  2. Project officer

(1) Systems Developer

This position is part of the team responsible for AustLII's legal materials and those of the World Legal Information Institute's (WorldLII) - over 120 large scale databases of primary materials (case law and legislation) and secondary materials (including law journals and law reform commission reports).  Members of the team each have responsibility for management and development of sets of databases, and (depending on qualifications and experience) on the development of new software for text processing.

Members of the team are involved in various research projects funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other local and overseas funding bodies.

AustLII/WorldLII has developed a lot of its software and systems in-house including a search engine and a targetted webspider. The principal responsibility of this position is to develop and maintain AustLII/WorldLII's software and systems. Maintaining databases by the use of standards and automated tools is also required.

Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science (or equivalent degree) is essential. Tertiary qualifications in law is highly desirable. Applicants require a sound knowledge of internet and related protocols. Knowledge of Unix, HTML, XML, C and Perl is essential. Knowledge of other text processing languages and tools is highly desirable. Knowledge of and experience in the development of large scale publishing systems on the Internet is highly desirable. Good communication skills are highly desirable.

(2) Project Officer

AustLII/WorldLII receives data feeds in a variety of formats from our data providers. The main responsibility of this position is to prepare and process data using standard conversion tools. This position would also involve running existing processing scripts to convert 'standardised' data for online publication as well as customising them for different data formats. This position works with other members of the database team and would be involved in processing primary materials (case law and legislation) and secondary materials (eg law journals). Some editorial work may need to be performed especially in processing secondary materials.

Qualifications: Tertiary qualifications in Computer Science (or equivalent degree) is essential, but applicants who are near to completion of qualifications will be considered. A background in law is desirable. A sound knowledge of, and experience in the use of HTML and internet protocols is essential. Knowledge of Unix, Perl, and any text management tools is highly desirable. Good communications skills are highly desirable.
 

Please contact ...

Anyone interested in submitting an expression of interest in the positions which are to be created should send the following details by e-mail to AustLII: Details should be sent to AustLII's Administrative Officer, Cathy Quigley (employment@austlii.edu.au). If any attachments are included with your email, please ensure that they are in rtf (rich text format). We cannot guarantee that we can read other forms of attachment.

Telephone enquiries should be directed to AustLII's Executive Director, Philip Chung, on 02 9514 3175.