• Full-time, permanent position
• Box Hill and Boronia location
• Leadership and development opportunities
• Attractive employee benefits including salary packaging, leave loading, additional paid leave over Christmas/New Year and on-site parking

About ECLC

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 the legal team, the Senior Community Lawyer will utilise their considerable experience in diverse areas of law to engage with the community through a combination of direct legal services, community legal education and development projects.

The Senior Community Lawyer will also work closely with the Managing Lawyer to provide leadership, mentoring and support to the legal services team in the delivery of high quality legal services to disadvantaged members of the community.

About you

You will ideally have experience or an interest in mentoring and developing others and possess excellent communication and partnership skills.

You will have the ability to manage multiple, competing demands and the desire to grow with the organisation.

You will be a client-focussed and service-oriented individual, committed to making a difference to the most vulnerable people in the community.

Specifically, you will have:

• At least four years’ post-admission experience in a broad range of areas, particularly in family law/family violence and generalist legal advice
• Awareness of the relationship between casework, community development and community legal education

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Commitment to social justice and equality

An application pack is attached.