Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 23rd Sep 2021
Due to the expansion of our national service, knowmore Legal Service is seeking both Male and female Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Advisors for our Melbourne, Perth, and new Adelaide office.
knowmore is a nation-wide, free and independent mainstream community legal centre providing legal information, advice, representation and referrals, education and systemic advocacy for victims and survivors of child abuse. knowmore uses a multidisciplinary model bringing together intake officers, lawyers, social workers and counsellors, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander engagement advisors and financial counsellors to provide trauma-informed, client-centred and culturally safe legal assistance.
This position assists Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients to receive legal assistance and works closely with other multi-disciplinary team members to deliver services in a culturally safe and respectful manner. Reporting directly to the Manager, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Engagement Team, the role also delivers front line services and case management. This role will also participate in projects and activities including community education, to achieve systemic reforms that benefit knowmore’s client group.
This role also involves regular intrastate, and some interstate travel (for up to a week at a time), including regular visits to urban, regional and remote areas of Australia to deliver services to clients on an outreach basis and to undertake community engagement. Accordingly, a current driver’s licence is highly desired.
This is an Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islander identified position, the individual must be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person who identifies and is recognised as such within both their and other communities they have worked in.
Aunty Glendra Stubbs is a Wiradjuri woman and an Aboriginal Engagement Advisor at knowmore. She has been supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients since knowmore began in 2013. In the video below, Aunty Glendra shares her story about working at knowmore and supporting her clients on their journey.
Further Information about knowmore is available at www.knowmore.org.au.
The role will be required to satisfactorily complete a National Police Records Check and a Working with Children Check.
To be appointed to the role, an applicant will also need to comply with the requirements of any applicable legislation relating to legal practice (i.e., not be a person disqualified from employment by a legal practice) and will also need to meet the entry requirements for professional visitors to correctional centres across Australia.
knowmore considers that being an Aboriginal person or a Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational requirement for this position under s42 of the Discrimination Act 1991 (ACT), s14 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 (NSW), sub-s 35(1)(b)(ii) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1996 (NT), s25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld), sub-s 56(2) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (SA), s41 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1998 (Tas), sub-s 26(3) or s28 of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010 (Vic), or s50 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA).