• Part-time (2 days per week), ongoing position
• Boronia Location with initial working from home arrangement due to current pandemic
• Attractive employee benefits including tax effective salary packaging, leave loading, additional paid leave over Christmas/New Year and on-site parking as well as flexible working options and flexi-time/time in lieu

About Us

For 45 years, Eastern Community Legal Centre (ECLC) has been working with communities across the eastern suburbs of Melbourne to resolve legal problems, advocate for people’s rights, improve the legal justice system, and alleviate socio-economic disadvantage.

Everything ECLC does is helping it achieve its vision of a community that respects and upholds human rights, fairness and justice.

ECLC offers free legal and other services to priority communities through a skilled multidisciplinary workforce of staff and volunteers which include advocates, community lawyers, financial counsellors, intake specialists, paralegals, social workers and program, management and policy professionals.

ECLC works with communities and community members living in Boroondara, Knox, Manningham, Maroondah, Whitehorse, and Yarra Ranges.

ECLC helps priority people and communities that would otherwise not have access to a lawyer, whilst prioritising services and targeting programs to those who experience acute disadvantage.

About the role

As a key member of ECLC’s SAGE program, the Intake and Administration Officer (SAGE) will work as part of an integrated team including a community lawyer, family violence advocate, financial counsellor and other professionals to assist in improving access to justice and support services for women who have experienced family violence.

The role of the Intake and Administration Officer (SAGE) provides: program administration (including data reporting); administrative support to the SAGE team; and, provides accessible, efficient and effective intake services to those seeking assistance through SAGE including: information provision; initial legal needs identification; and risk assessment.

Skills Required

You will hold a relevant qualifications in community services, youth work or similar and experience in administration and client services within the community legal sector.

You will also have demonstrated experience working with vulnerable client groups and those with complex needs. You will be a compassionate person who respects people, their circumstances and decisions.

Specifically, you will have:

• exceptional organisational and administrative skills
• commitment to social justice and equality, particularly for women experiencing family violence
• high level written and oral communication skills

A position description is attached.