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 & 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
- 17.5% 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 & 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
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).
For more information about Westjustice, please
visit our website (www.westjustice.org.au)
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.
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.
