The Organisation
WEstjustice are a leading community legal centre providing free services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. From their offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through their outreach services they provide advice on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law and more.
WEstjustice believe in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against vulnerable people. They provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
WEstjustice’s mission is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage
Program Manager - Employment and Equality Law Program
- Rare opportunity for a senior employment lawyer to lead the delivery of critical legal services in the Western suburbs, in an ongoing role
- Develop and maintain innovative programs that seek to address systemic disadvantage and unmet legal need
- Be part of a well-regarded specialist service providing free employment and discrimination law advice to communities experiencing disadvantage
BENEFITS AND CULTURE
- Competitive salary with generous salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Full or part time work
- Based in Footscray with outreach work at other sites
THE ROLE
This is an exciting ongoing opportunity for an experienced senior employment lawyer keen to work in an innovative community justice environment with clients experiencing disadvantage, and to be involved in addressing the systemic issues that contribute to workplace exploitation.
Reporting to the Legal Director, Employment and Equality Law Program (EELP), you will use your employment and discrimination law experience to improve the lives of workers by managing the delivery of legal advice, casework, advocacy, information, education, and community engagement activities.
You will undertake and supervise work with a range of clients including young people, people from newly arrived communities, international students, and women experiencing family violence. Our program assists with a wide range of employment matters including underpayment of wages and entitlements, sham contracting, unfair dismissals and general protections, unsafe work practices and employment-related discrimination and sexual harassment.
In addition to direct service delivery, you take a lead role within the team in coordinating and developing its outreach services and systemic impact advocacy, including proactively identifying law reform or policy issues and opportunities to make submissions and delivering those projects. You will contribute to organisational best practice, maintain relationships with a range of stakeholders that support our services, including pro-bono partners, volunteers, and interns, and represent the EELP at external forums and working groups.
The Program Manager will be primarily based at our Footscray office but may be required to work at our other offices (located in the western suburbs of Melbourne including Sunshine and Werribee, or the CBD) and/or partner organisation sites, depending on program need.
Generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
SKILLS REQUIRED
You will be qualified in law and hold an unrestricted Victorian practicing certificate or be eligible for one.
You will also have:
- a minimum of five years post admission experience
- significant legal practice experience in employment and equality law, including supervising junior staff
- demonstrated systemic advocacy experience, including leading and coordinating highly effective systemic impact work or campaigns.
The full key selection criteria are contained in the position description available here.
Please apply by midnight 7 April 2023 by sending your resume together with a cover letter responding to the each of the key selection criteria in the Position Description to recruitment@westjustice.org.au. Alternatively, please call Jennifer Jones, Legal Director, EELP, on 03 9749 7720 for a confidential discussion.
The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check and a Police Check or be prepared to apply for both.
Applicants must possess the right to work in Australia.
Social Worker - Economic Justice Program
THE ORGANISATION
WEstjustice is a leading community legal centre providing free services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. From our offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through our outreach services we provide advice, representation, and education on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law, infringements, children’s law and more.
We believe in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against people and cause them vulnerability. We provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
Our purpose is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage.
BENEFITS and CULTURE
- Competitive salary with salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
- Werribee-based location
THE ROLE
Reporting to the Program Manager – Tenancy at WEstjustice, you will contribute to the commencement of an innovative new project, the Tenancy Wellbeing Service, that will deliver integrated legal and non-legal support to community members at risk of eviction from rental housing into homelessness. Working along side a lawyer and financial counsellor, you will have a caseload and provide case management to clients with varying complexities and disadvantagess. You will contribute to an holistic and collaborative client-focussed service and utilise best practice principles to support positive client outcomes.
The team will be based at WEstjustice’s Werribee office (travel to outreach and stakeholder locations may also be required). You will provide social work services to a range of clients experiencing tenancy stress.
In addition to direct client case management, you will contribute with the team’s social and health-related reform agenda to promote systemic change and improve accessibility, laws and processes for people experiencing rental stress, including helping to provide community education sessions.
SKILLS REQUIRED
You will be qualified in social work and be eligible for or hold membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Your background may come from private or public health or community services.
You will also have:
- Ability to engage and communicate with people experiencing disadvantage, support services, government, and industry bodies.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently as well as part of a small team collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team environment.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in a practical, accurate and understandable manner to potentially challenging clients in stressful and emotionally charged situations.
- Organisational, time management and planning skills including the ability to prioritise tasks and to manage competing demands under pressure.
- Ability to maintain confidential and accurate records.
- Intermediate computer literacy skills including familiarity with databases, client management software, and Microsoft 365.
- Understanding of and commitment to WEstjustice’s Vision, Purpose, Strategic Plan and Impact Areas (which the successful applicant will receive full induction on).
Salary range – $91,420.49 per annum - $95,559.07 per annum (depending on experience), plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth). In addition, generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
For more information about WEstjustice, please visit our website (www.westjustice.org.au)
Please apply by 5pm 10 February 2023 by sending your resume together with a cover letter responding to the key selection criteria in the Position Description to recruitment@westjustice.org.au.
If you have any queries about the role, contact Joseph Nunweek, Legal Director- Economic Justice, for a confidential discussion at 03 9749 7720.
A copy of the Position Description is available here.
The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check and a Police Check or be prepared to apply for both. Applicants must possess the right to work in Australia.
WEstjustice is committed to building a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with a disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTIQ-identifying people.
Financial Counsellor - Economic Justice Program
The Organisation
WEstjustice are a leading community legal centre providing free services to people experiencing vulnerability. From their offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through their outreach services they provide advice on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law and more.
WEstjustice believe in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against people. They provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
Our purpose is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage
Benefits and Culture
- Competitive salary with salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
- Werribee-based location
The Role
The Financial Counsellor will play a key role in the Restoring Financial Safety program within the Economic Justice team. This is a project aimed at assisting family violence victim-survivors experiencing economic abuse. It is run in partnership with McAuley Community Services for Women and the Orange Door Western Melbourne.
This exciting opportunity is available for an experienced Financial Counsellor that can hit the ground running.
The Financial Counsellor will be primarily based at our Werribee office but may be required to work at partner sites.
Skills Required
You will hold a Diploma of Financial Counselling (or equivalent).
You will also have:
- Experience in credit and debt issues
- Ability to work autonomously and with a small team
- Ability to engage and communicate complex information to vulnerable clients
- Ability to engage a diverse range of stakeholders and industry
- A commitment to WEstjustice values and working with their clients and communities
Salary range – $91,420.49 per annum - $95,559.07 per annum (depending on experience), plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth). In addition, generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
If you want to use your experience to improve life outcomes of people experiencing vulnerability, Please apply by 5pm, 8 March 2023 by sending your resume together with a cover letter responding to the each of the key selection criteria in the Position Description to recruitment @westjustice.org.au. Alternatively, please call Dacia Abela on 03 9749 7720 if you have any questions in relation to the role.
A copy of the Position Description is available here.
Late applications will not be considered.
The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check and a Police Check or be prepared to apply for both.
Youth Legal Administrator - Youth Law Program
Benefits and Culture
- Competitive salary with salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Based in Sunshine with outreach work at other sites
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
About WEstjustice:
WEstjustice is seeking to employ a full-time or part-time Legal Administrator on a fixed term contract until 31 December 2023 (with a potential extension depending on availability of funding) to join our Youth Law Team.
WEstjustice is a multidisciplinary, community-based legal centre committed to improving justice outcomes for the people of western Melbourne, and especially the most vulnerable in our community. It was formed in July 2015 through the amalgamation of the Footscray, Wyndham and Western Suburbs Community Legal Centres, which brought a long and proud history and experience to the new organisation.
WEstjustice is committed to building a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTIQ people.
This role will support lawyers who provide in reach and outreach criminal and civil legal services to children and young people aged 10-25 in diverse settings including at youth service hubs, residential care homes and schools.
Our legal work includes advice, case work, in court advocacy and developing and delivering community legal education. You will also contribute to law and policy reform activity and the achievement of our strategic advocacy priorities that aspire for excellent legal, including life, outcomes.
Provide a wide range of legal administrative support services including but not limited to conducting legal intake, word processing, data entry, generating and preparing legal correspondence/court documents/briefs to counsel, photocopying, calendar management, processing applications for grants of legal assistance, booking interpreters, file management and where required, reception services
You will be primarily based at our Sunshine office but be required to work across our other offices in the Western suburbs (Footscray and Werribee) and other outreach sites.
Our ideal candidate has administrative experience in the legal sector and thrives in a fast-paced working environment, and is proficient with Microsoft 365 suite in particularly Outlook, Sharepoint, Excel and Teams. The candidate will share WEstjustice’s values and ability to engage and communicate effectively with children and young people, many of whom have experienced childhood disadvantage, discrimination and trauma, lawyers and external stakeholders.
Remuneration:
Salary range - $69,278.56 - $74,288.40 plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth). In addition, generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
A copy of the position description is available here.
For more information about WEstjustice, please visit our website (www.westjustice.org.au)
To apply, please email a short cover letter, your CV and your responses to the key selection criteria to recruitment@westjustice.org.au addressed to Theresa Mai, Senior HR Officer, by 5.00pm on Friday 31 March 2023. Please use the subject line: Youth Legal Administrator [your name] application via [website].
If you have any questions in relation to the role, please contact our office on 9749 7720 and ask to speak to Anoushka Jeronimus, Director Youth Law.
The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check. The successful applicant must also undergo a national a Police Check.
Due to the role involving outreach, it is preferred that the applicant has access to their own vehicle.
Applicants must possess the right to work in Australia.
Senior Financial Counsellor and Financial Counsellor - Mortgage Stress Victoria
- Be part of the development of a high-impact specialist service supporting Victorians in mortgage stress
- Join a cohesive team of innovative and experienced lawyers, social workers and financial counsellors
- Work in a best-practice environment where staff development and opportunities are prioritised
- Use your skills and experience to prevent homelessness and housing insecurity for thousands of Victorian families
The Organisation
WEstjustice is a leading community legal centre providing free services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. From our offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through our outreach services we provide advice, representation and education on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law, infringements, children’s law and more.
WEstjustice believes in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against people experiencing vulnerability. We provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
Our purpose is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage.
Mortgage Stress Victoria
Over 5 years, WEstjustice has successfully operated a multidisciplinary service, providing intensive legal, financial counselling and social worker support to people in Melbourne’s west experiencing mortgage stress. We recently received funding to expand this small, high-impact service into a state-wide organisation.
Mortgage stress and household debt is at concerning, record-high levels across Victoria, and we are facing uncertain economic times. We have an incredibly important role in developing a service that can offer effective support to Victorians in mortgage stress, and scale our impact on the complex drivers and consequences of mortgage stress.
This is an exciting time to join Mortgage Stress Victoria. Be part of the team that builds a high-impact organisation delivering best practice services and working on systemic reform of a complex, widespread issue. Everyone in our small cohesive team will have exposure and input into strategy, service design, impact evaluation and complex service delivery.
Benefits and Culture
- Competitive salary with salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
- Werribee-based location
- Part time or full time option
The Role
WEstjustice is seeking to employ a Senior Financial Counsellor and Financial Counsellor on a 12-month fixed term contract. Reporting to the Legal Director, Mortgage Stress Victoria, you will assist with the expansion of our Mortgage Wellbeing Service from its western suburbs catchment into a Victorian state-wide multidisciplinary service. You will be a leader in the financial counselling practice, and help facilitate best practice to create opportunities to be at the forefront of new and improved ways in which we can work with clients to improve service delivery models and advocate for real and effective change.
In its first year, the Mortgage Stress Victoria team will be based at WEstjustice’s Werribee office (travel to outreach and stakeholder locations will also likely be required). You will provide specialist financial counselling services to a range of clients experiencing mortgage stress and assist a well-regarded team of financial counsellors to do the same.
In addition to direct service delivery, you will assist with the team’s reform agenda to promote systemic change and improve accessibility, laws and processes for people experiencing mortgage stress. You will also provide community education, and manage relationships with a range of stakeholders that includes partners, industry, government and potential funders.
Working closely with the Mortgage Stress Victoria Team, you will collaborate and contribute to the wider WEstjustice and Mortgage Stress Victoria organisational strategies to ensure best practice, accountability and impact.
We are therefore looking for a person who is ready to help WEstjustice reform, change and, at times, disrupt the current systems to create better life outcomes for our communities in the West and greater Victoria.
Skills Required
You will be qualified in financial counselling with a minimum two years of experience in a similar role and eligible for or hold membership of Financial Counselling Victoria. Your background may come from a community service in the financial counselling, legal and/or health fields.
You will also have:
- Ability to engage and communicate with people experiencing vulnerability, support services, government, utility providers, lenders and industry bodies.
- Strong commitment to social justice, community education and engagement, including a demonstrated understanding of the social context of law and the issues faced by communities experiencing vulnerability.
- Demonstrated financial counselling experience in mortgages and consumer credit, debt, fines, family violence and economic abuse, including managing all aspects of casework and case management to a very high standard.
- Ability to work autonomously, under the general direction of senior employees, including highly developed organisational and administration skills.
- Ability to supervise the work of junior financial counsellors, volunteers and students.
- Community legal education experience (training or teaching) including the ability to prepare and deliver high quality, effective presentations.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in a practical, accurate and understandable manner to potentially challenging clients in stressful and emotionally charged situations.
- Sound organisational, time management and planning skills including the ability to prioritise tasks and manage competing demands under pressure.
- Ability to adapt to change, working in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Intermediate computer literacy skills including familiarity with databases, client management software, and Microsoft 365.
- Understanding of and commitment to WEstjustice’s Vision, Purpose, Strategic Plan and Impact Areas.
Salary range – $91,420 per annum - $104,287 per annum (depending on experience), plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth). In addition, generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
If you want to use your skills as a social worker to assist people experiencing mortgage stress, please apply by 5pm 31 March 2023 by sending your resume together with a cover letter responding to each of the key selection criteria in the Position Description addressed to Mr Matthew Martin, Legal Director at matthew@westjustice.org.au If you have any queries about the role, contact Matthew on (03) 9749 7720.
A copy of the Financial Counsellor Position Description is available here.
A copy of the Senior Financial Counsellor Position Description is available here.
Social Worker - Mortgage Stress Victoria
- Be part of the development of a high-impact specialist service supporting Victorians in mortgage stress
- Join a cohesive team of innovative and experienced lawyers, social workers and financial counsellors
- Work in a best-practice environment where staff development and opportunities are prioritised
- Use your skills and experience to prevent homelessness and housing insecurity for thousands of Victorian families
The Organisation
WEstjustice is a leading community legal centre providing free services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. From our offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through our outreach services we provide advice, representation and education on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law, infringements, children’s law and more.
WEstjustice believes in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against people experiencing vulnerability. We provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
Our purpose is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage.
Mortgage Stress Victoria
Over 5 years, WEstjustice has successfully operated a multidisciplinary service, providing intensive legal, financial counselling and social worker support to people in Melbourne’s west experiencing mortgage stress. We recently received funding to expand this small, high-impact service into a state-wide organisation.
Mortgage stress and household debt is at concerning, record-high levels across Victoria, and we are facing uncertain economic times. We have an incredibly important role in developing a service that can offer effective support to Victorians in mortgage stress, and scale our impact on the complex drivers and consequences of mortgage stress.
This is an exciting time to join Mortgage Stress Victoria. Be part of the team that builds a high-impact organisation delivering best practice services and working on systemic reform of a complex, widespread issue. Everyone in our small cohesive team will have exposure and input into strategy, service design, impact evaluation and complex service delivery.
Benefits and Culture
- Competitive salary with salary packaging
- Up to 5 hours study leave per week
- Flexible working conditions
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
- Werribee-based location
- Part time or full time option
The Role
WEstjustice is seeking to employ a Social Worker or Senior Social Worker on a 12-month fixed term contract. Reporting to the Program Manager – Social Work, Mortgage Stress Victoria, you will assist with the expansion of our Mortgage Wellbeing Service from its western suburbs catchment into a Victorian state-wide multidisciplinary service. You will be responsible for triaging new social work referrals and have a caseload providing brief intervention support to clients with varying complexities and vulnerabilities. You will contribute to an integrated and collaborative client-focussed service and utilise best practice principles to support positive client outcomes.
In its first year, the Mortgage Stress Victoria Team will be based at WEstjustice’s Werribee office (travel to outreach and stakeholder locations will also likely be required). You will provide social work services to a range of clients experiencing mortgage stress.
In addition to direct client support, you will assist with the team’s social and health-related reform agenda to promote systemic change and improve accessibility, laws and processes for people experiencing mortgage stress. You will also assist in providing community education sessions, and maintaining relationships with a range of stakeholders that includes support services, partners, industry, government and potential funders.
Working with the Mortgage Stress Victoria Team, you will collaborate and contribute to the wider WEstjustice and Mortgage Stress Victoria organisational strategies to ensure best practice, accountability and impact.
We are therefore looking for a person who is ready to help WEstjustice reform, change and, at times, disrupt the current systems to create better life outcomes for our communities in the West and greater Victoria.
Skills Required
You will be qualified in social work and be eligible for or hold membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers. Your background may come from private or public health or community services.
You will also have:
- Demonstrated experience in case management working with vulnerable individuals and communities.
- Ability to engage and communicate with people experiencing vulnerability, support services, government, and industry bodies.
- Ability to work as part of a small team collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team environment, both under the direction of senior employees and independently.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in a practical, accurate and understandable manner to potentially challenging clients in stressful and emotionally charged situations.
- Organisational, time management and planning skills including the ability to prioritise tasks and manage competing demands under pressure.
- Ability to maintain confidential and accurate records.
- Intermediate computer literacy skills including familiarity with databases, client management software, and Microsoft 365.
- Ability to adapt to change, working in a fast-paced, start-up environment.
- Understanding of and commitment to WEstjustice’s Vision, Purpose, Strategic Plan and Impact Areas.
Salary range – $91,420 per annum - $104,000 per annum (depending on experience), plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth). In addition, generous salary packaging is available (including access to Accommodation and Meal Entertainment packaging).
If you want to use your skills as a social worker to assist people experiencing mortgage stress, please apply by 5pm 31 March 2023 by sending your resume together with a cover letter responding to each of the key selection criteria in the Position Description addressed to Mr Matthew Martin, Legal Director at matthew@westjustice.org.au Ms Yvonne Montfort, Program Manager – Social Work at yvonne@westjustice.org.au. If you have any queries about the role, contact Yvonne on (03) 9749 7720.
A copy of the Position Description is available here.
Director of Operations and Strategy – Mortgage Stress Victoria
- Legal service providing free services to the Melbourne West community.
- Create and lead the operations of the Victorian state-wide expansion of Mortgage Stress Victoria including general management, supervision, support, strategic leadership of service delivery and advocacy functions, and operational and compliance matters.
- Use your expertise to deliver a best practice and high impact program involving integrated multidisciplinary practice models with an overarching emphasis on law reform, systemic impact and systems improvement.
- Manage a dynamic workforce and work closely with the CEO and Senior Leadership Team.
The Organisation
WEstjustice is a leading community legal centre providing free services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people. From our offices in Footscray, Werribee and Sunshine and through our outreach services we provide advice, representation and education on a broad range of issues including employment, discrimination, consumer disputes, tenancy, credit and debt, family disputes, family violence, criminal law, infringements, children’s law and more.
WEstjustice believes in a just and fair society where the law and its processes do not discriminate against people experiencing vulnerability. We provide free legal education, undertake law reform activities and work in partnership with their local communities to deliver projects that improve access to justice.
Our purpose is to service the legal needs in the West in a way that addresses the systemic nature of disadvantage.
Benefits and Culture
- Competitive above Award salary
- Salary packaging available
- Generous study leave
- Flexible working conditions
- Passionate, professional and dedicated team
- Focus on career development
- Werribee-based location
- Part time or full time option considered
The Role
This is an exciting time to be joining Westjustice and leading this dynamic program. The Mortgage Stress Victoria Team is based at our Werribee office. Working with the Legal Director - Mortgage Stress Victoria, you will be responsible for leading the expansion of Mortgage Stress Victoriafrom its western suburbs catchment into a Victorian state-wide legal centre.
You will oversee the operations of the service to create opportunities to be at the forefront of new and improved ways in which we can work with clients to improve service delivery models and advocate for real and effective change. You will lead risk management systems and overall compliance, practice management, implementation of policies and procedures, resource allocation, financial management, recruitment and development of staff, and implementation of the strategic direction and objectives of the service.
In addition to operations and practice management, you will lead the team’s reform agenda to promote systemic change and improve accessibility, laws and processes for people experiencing mortgage stress. You will also manage relationships with a range of stakeholders that includes partners, governments and potential funders.
Working closely with the CEO you will collaborate and contribute to the wider organisational strategy to ensure best practice, accountability and impact.
If you are ready to contribute and lead WEstjustice’s reform, change and, at times, disrupt the current systems to create better life outcomes for our communities in the West and greater Victoria, we want to hear from you.
Skills Required
You will be qualified in law and have experience as a senior member of legal and operations teams and leading and managing staff with the ability to hold a Principal Practising Certificate. You will have significant experience in the community and/or not for profit sector, particularly in community legal centres.
You will also have:
- Demonstrated experience in a leadership role, and substantial experience in a policy development or influencing role, including:
- experience leading a team or impact area, including management and supervision of program managers, senior and junior staff;
- ability to handle and resolve challenging situations or issues;
- an ability to make reasoned, strategic decisions in a collaborative manner, including about competing priorities in a busy workplace;
- ability to work autonomously with limited direction from the CEO;
- ability to set and deliver work outcomes.
- Significant experience in project development and fundraising, budget monitoring and financial acumen, with an ability to understand and address the opportunities and challenges that face the Mortgage Stress Victoria, including the development of a long term funding strategy.
- High level of organisational awareness and understanding of political processes.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively and confidently to engage with a diverse range of stakeholders and to build strong partnerships.
- Strong commitment to social justice and community engagement, including a demonstrated understanding of the social context of law and the issues faced by communities experiencing vulnerability and the ability to coordinate and lead systemic impact work.
- Highly developed ability to engage with, communicate with and assist clients experiencing vulnerability and/or disadvantage.
- Strategic, intellectual, conceptual and analytical thinking skills, with the ability to conceive, conceptualise and express innovative ideas with impact.
- The ability to operate in a culturally diverse organisation with multiple external and internal stakeholders.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills including networking, relationship and alliance building, and collaboration with a wide range of different institutions, interest groups, stakeholders and individuals in various settings including government, private and community sectors.
- A collaborative, enthusiastic, motivational and team-oriented leadership style.
- The ability to develop an open, respectful, accountable and non-threatening feedback culture.
- Awareness of own impact and influence and use of it to improve the functioning of the Mortgage Stress Victoria Service.
- Well-developed public speaking skills.
- Demonstrated understanding of and commitment to WEstjustice’s Vision, Purpose, Strategic Plan 2020-23 and Impact Areas 2020-23.
The full key selection criteria are contained in the position description available here.
The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check and a National Police Check or be prepared to apply for both. Applicants must possess the right to work in Australia.
Shortlisting of candidates will commence prior to the closure of this role, please submit your applications as soon as possible.
Salary to be negotiated, commensurate with skills, qualifications and experience.
Candidates are invited to submit a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria of the role along with the current CV. Please apply to recruitmentr@westjustice.org.au by 23 April 2023. Alternatively, please call Theresa Mai, Senior HR Officer on 03 9749 7720 for a confidential discussion.
A copy of the Position Description is available here.
