Job No.: 630093

Location: Monash Law Clinics – Clayton campus & Melbourne CBD

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 5-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: $152,152 - $167,618 pa Level D (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Enjoy the freedom to discover something new
• Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas – and the people who discover them
• Take your career further with state-of-the-art infrastructure

Monash is full of thinkers and doers who are looking for their next challenge. So if you’ve forged a rewarding career so far, this role provides the perfect platform to join us. You’ll have access to quality higher education facilities, infrastructure and teaching spaces to do exciting work, along with opportunities to collaborate internationally. You’ll be part of a university that’s made up of inspirational, challenging thinkers and doers – and continue doing work that makes a lasting impact.

The Opportunity

Monash Law Clinics provide a range of community legal services and programs conducted by legal practitioners and supervised undergraduate and postgraduate law students. These services are conducted both to demonstrate the Faculty's professional capability and community commitment, and to provide a structured professional setting through which students can gain clinical experience in professional practice.

Monash Law Clinics is seeking to appoint a Director to assist in the delivery of the clinical legal education program for students and the legal services provided to the community. The Director is responsible for providing strategic leadership and oversight of the operations of Monash Law Clinics (MLC) and is an important leader of the Monash Clinical Legal Education Program.

Reporting to the Associate Dean (Experiential Education), the Director acts as a key driver for identifying opportunities to enhance the legal service’s offerings through securing various government funding, supporting Faculty curriculum development and best practice in clinical legal education.

To be considered for this role, you will have significant experience in the practice of law and in advocacy on behalf of individuals and communities. You will have experience in legal practice management, preferably within the community legal sector, evidence of high quality activity in research, advocacy and law reform and a demonstrated ongoing commitment to such activities, and proven excellence in the development of students or junior practitioners, including a commitment to providing high quality learning experiences.

This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. This position at the University will require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to "How to apply for Monash Jobs".

In the context of COVID-19, the University is required to comply with various health directions issued from time to time by the Chief Health Officer. Further information concerning vaccination requirements and the obligations on Monash University to collect, record and hold vaccination information about employees is available at the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Victoria, please select COVID-19 Mandatory Vaccination (Workers) Directions.

Enquiries

Associate Dean (Experiential Education) Professor Jeff Giddings, [email protected], using the subject line: Director, Monash Law Clinics enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Position Description

Director, Monash Law Clinics