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Solicitor - Discrimination & Generalist

Australian Centre for Disability Law
  • Award/Classification: Level 5 or 6 (depending on experience) Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (“SCHCADS”) 
  • Position Status: Part time 21 hours per week - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract 
  • Working Hours/Days: 9.00am to 5.00pm (or as otherwise agreed)
  • Salary Range: Salary range $50,000 - $58,000 depending on experience, (plus 9.5% employer superannuation, leave loading, salary packaging options and an additional 2 weeks paid ex gratia leave, inclusive of public holidays, over the Christmas/New Year period).
  • Conditions: 6 month probationary period
  • Responsible to: Principal Solicitor
  • Location: Surry Hills, NSW and COVID-19 working from home arrangements

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 managed by a community-based Management Committee and is staffed by an Executive Officer/Principal Solicitor, 4 solicitors, and volunteers, including volunteer solicitors from law firms. ACDL co-located with a national peak disability advocacy organisation in 2014. 

ROLE SUMMARY

The role of the Solicitor is to provide legal services, including legal advice, intensive casework and community legal education in the area of disability discrimination and generalist areas of law to people with disability and their associates with legal problems associated with COVD-19. You will work with a project outreach manager to deliver these services.

This role will involve travel within the Sydney metropolitan area and to selected regional, remote and rural locations to identify key legal issues affecting people with disability. You will utilise other forms of communication to conduct workshops and outreach where travel is not appropriate.

The Solicitor will work within a team comprising of the Managing Principal Solicitor, 4 solicitors, outreach manager, administration manager and volunteers.

The applicant will be experienced in working in projects, including preparing reports, and delivering to tight deadlines.

Other duties as required.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo both a Working with Children and National Criminal Record check.

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

Solicitors work collaboratively with other staff at ACDL and volunteers as well as other community and government organisations. 

A position description is appended below.

ESSENTIAL SELECTION CRITERIA

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

  1. Hold or eligible to hold an unrestricted practising certificate in NSW and at least three (3) years post admission experience
  2. 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 trustee and guardianship, employment law, fines, consumer law, family law and domestic violence
  3. Demonstrated experience in developing relationships with community organisations and undertaking outreach to vulnerable communities
  4. Demonstrated understanding and commitment to social justice, as well as the ability to identify legal and non-legal issues facing people with disability
  5. Capacity to undertake legal research, develop and deliver community legal education, including legal health checks, and outreach programs
  6. Ability to travel within the Sydney metropolitan region and to rural, regional and remote locations to deliver outreach legal services and community legal education programs
  7. Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with people from diverse backgrounds
  8. Demonstrated ability to work autonomously with minimal supervision, manage priorities, timelines and multiple tasks, undertake own administration and assist in the general day to day administration of the Centre, including assisting other staff members during periods of leave, maintain data collection and prepare reports, take initiative and accept responsibility.  

DESIRABLE

  1. A current drivers licence. 

ACDL encourages people with disability and their associates and people from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait background or culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds to apply.

Please contact Mark Patrick, Managing Principal Solicitor, on 02 9370 3142 or [email protected], using the subject line: Solicitor - Discrimination & Generalist enquiry via EthicalJobs, for any questions.

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