• Award/Classification:​ Level 6 or 7, Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (“SCHCADS”)
• Position Status:​​ Full Time or Part Time, 21 - 35 hours per week
• Working Hours / Days: ​​9.00am to 5.00pm (or as otherwise agreed)
• Salary Range: ​Salary range $102,546.00 - $115,537.24 depending on experience, (plus 11% employer superannuation, leave loading, salary packaging options and an additional 3 weeks paid ex gratia leave, inclusive of public holidays, over the Christmas/New Year period and 5 days of Cultural and Religious leave.  
• Responsible to:​​ Principal Solicitor

OVERVIEW

The Australian Centre for Disability Law (ACDL) is a specialist legal centre based in Sydney, which operates a disability discrimination law practice across NSW, and a disability and human rights law practice across Australia. It was established in 1994 to assist people with disability and their associates to learn about and pursue their rights under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth). 

ACDL is governed by a community-based Management Committee and is staffed by an Executive Officer/Principal Solicitor, a senior solicitor, four part-time solicitors, a paralegal and a team of 5 volunteers, including volunteer solicitors from law firms. 

ROLE SUMMARY

The role of the Solicitor is to provide legal services in disability discrimination and generalist areas of law to people with disability and their associates, supervision of the Advice Line service and outreach clinics, undertaking projects in community legal education, legal reform, legal policy analysis and other projects as they arise.

This position will require travel to locations outside the Sydney metropolitan area to deliver legal services at outreach clinics and community legal education seminars.

This role comprises the following legal services:

• Legal information and referral
• Legal advice
• Casework
• Representation at court/tribunals
• Legal policy analysis and law reform
• Community legal education 
• Attending outreach clinics in metropolitan Sydney and rural, remote and regional areas.

A position description is appended below.​

ESSENTIAL SELECTION CRITERIA 

Applicants are required to respond to the following essential selection criteria:

• Hold or eligible to hold an unrestricted practising certificate in NSW and at least three (3) years’ post admission experience.  
• Demonstrated understanding and experience, or the capacity to acquire understanding, in disability discrimination legislation and other disability-related legislation, policies and practices, and experience in at least two other areas of law affecting people with disability such as employment law, trustee and guardianship, fines, consumer law, family law and domestic violence. 
• Civil litigation experience, including representation at conciliation conferences in the Australian Human Rights Commission, Anti-Discrimination NSW or the Fair Work Commission.
• Capacity to undertake legal research, projects in law reform, legal policy analysis, develop and deliver community legal education programs and legal outreach clinics at onsite locations throughout NSW.
• Ability to work without close supervision, set priorities, organise and manage own workloads and travel within NSW to deliver outreach clinics and community legal education.
• Work professionally and collaboratively with team members and stakeholders in a environment of communication and collegiality to provide legal and non-legal support to people with disability and their associates 

DESIRABLE

• Experience in managing/supervising volunteers
• A current drivers licence.

Pre-Employment Checks

• Working with Children Check 

APPLYING FOR THE POSITION 

To apply for this position, you will need to carefully read the selection criteria.

All applications must include a covering letter, CV and individual responses to the Essential Selection Criteria and Desirable Selection Criteria. Each selection criterion should appear as a heading with your response below.  Applicants who do not individually address each of the selection criteria will not be interviewed.

People with disability and their associates, people from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait background or culturally and linguistically diverse background are encouraged to apply. 

Please submit a covering letter, your responses to the selection criteria and CV via the "Apply Now" button or phone the Principal Solicitor, Mark Patrick on (02) 7229 0068.

A position description is appended below.