Community Legal Education Coordinator

The Organisation

Westjustice is a rights-based Community Legal Centre servicing Melbourne’s West on the lands of the Bunurong and Wurundjeri peoples and including the LGAs of Wyndham, Maribyrnong, Hobsons Bay, Melton and Brimbank, a population of over a million people. Melbourne’s Western Suburbs are the thriving backbone of the state, and home to Australia’s most diverse and fastest-growing population. 

Westjustice’s purpose is to deliver targeted services and drive meaningful change to achieve fairness, safety and justice for Melbourne’s West. 

We work to uphold peoples’ rights by providing free legal, social work, financial counselling services, community engagement, and advocacy for systemic reform across the five impact areas of Workers’ Rights, Children and Young People’s Rights, Women and Gender Diverse people’s Rights, Economic and Housing Rights, and Our Team. We provide place-based, multi-disciplinary programs, and partner with values-aligned organisations to focus on servicing those most impacted by these issues, and to ensure people have access to the services they need where they need them.

Through our work, we consistently see complex legal issues and the cyclical impact they have on longer term justice, economic, health, and life outcomes. This is why our services and programs focus on prevention and early intervention in the cycle of economic precarity, criminalisation, violence and housing insecurity. It is also why we advocate for legal, social and policy reform to ensure the people of Melbourne’s West have access to services and the best version of justice.

Benefits and Culture

• Be a part of an organisation that 98% of our employees are proud to work for
• We pay 3% above the SCHADs award
• Not for profit salary packaging up to $15,900 per annum
• Flexible working conditions
• 5% annual leave loading
• Passionate, professional and dedicated team
• Gifted additional paid leave over the Christmas holiday period
• Strong focus on collaboration, wellbeing, inclusion and diversity

The Role

Westjustice is seeking to employ a full time or part-time (0.80FTE) Community Legal Education Coordinator on a 12-month maximum term contract, (with potential for a longer-term contract depending on availability of funding) to initially support our Children and Young People’s Rights and Women and Gender Diverse Rights teams and also contribute to broader Westjustice initiatives as required.

This newly created role is responsible for designing, coordinating and implementing legal education sessions, information resources, stakeholder relationships and outreach strategies to enhance Westjustice’s engagement with the communities in the West (both metropolitan and regional), with a particular emphasis on children, young people and families.   

The role is responsible for:

• Developing and implementing a community legal education plan to enhance knowledge of legal rights of children, young people and families that seeks to prevent or reducing legal problems and increasing access to legal assistance
• Designing, writing and co-ordinating legal education sessions and co-deliver sessions with lawyers
• Contributing to policy/systemic impact work, including identifying law reform or policy issues arising from community engagement activities, and contributing to submissions or reports
• Assisting and supporting the Program Mangers, Legal Directors and Westjustice’s Community Development and Engagement Program Manager to support consistent, high quality community engagement and development work at Westjustice, including contributing to project data and project reporting, evaluation and governance.

This position is primarily based at our Sunshine office but will be required to work at our other offices and/or clinic sites, as need arises.

Remuneration:

Salary range – $103,800-$108,510 per annum (dependent on experience) plus employer funded superannuation in accordance with Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth).

Please apply by submitting a cover letter and resume via clicking ‘Apply Now’. Applicants will be screened and may be interviewed as their application is received.. Alternatively, please call Elicia Savvas, Legal Director, on 03 9749 7720 for a confidential discussion.

For a copy of the position description, click 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. Applicants must possess the right to work in Australia.

The successful applicant will require a current Working with Children’s Check and a Police Check or be prepared to apply for both. People with lived experience of the justice system are encouraged to apply. A police check result does not automatically disqualify an application which in each case will be individually assessed for the relevant role.  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 LGBTIQA+-identifying people.   People with lived experience of the justice system are encouraged to apply. A police check result does not automatically disqualify an application which in each case will be individually assessed for the relevant role.

If you require any adjustments throughout the application or recruitment process please contact theresa@westjustice.org.au 

Please ensure that you let us know, in advance, of any reasonable adjustment you may require during any part of the recruitment process including application and interview by contacting Theresa via theresa@Westjustice.org.au.  Any information disclosed will be held in the strictest of confidence.

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