Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 24th Jan 2022
- Sydney > CBD, Inner West & Eastern Suburbs Sydney
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YLA is the national children’s and youth Community Legal Centre (CLC). We provide high quality, free and confidential legal assistance services to children, young people, and their families and advocates in all areas of the law.
YLA aims to enhance children and young people’s access to and engagement with their legal rights; assistance to exercise these rights; and to remedies when these rights are violated. YLA’s objective is to fulfil these aims by providing appropriate and targeted legal information, advice, education, representation, and advocacy.
Amongst other things, YLA provides:
YLA website, the leading community legal information resource for young Australians. The site is an accessible, 24/7 pathway to legal information and assistance: yla.org.au; and
Get help now, the free, confidential legal information, advice and assistance service for all young Australians. Get help now is a clear and timely “next step" for help-seekers on the website: gethelp.yla.org.au.
Headquartered at the University of New South Wales, YLA is an accredited CLC and holds specialist consultative status (children’s rights) with the United Nations Economic and Social Council. YLA was founded in 1993 as the National Children's and Youth Law Centre.
This is an opportunity to join the most important legal practice in the country, and lead a team dedicated to preventing and intervening early in the maltreatment of young people nationwide.
YLA is recruiting a Principal Solicitor to oversee a national program providing generalist legal and counselling services to children and young people with a particular focus on family and domestic violence, sexual abuse, cyber harm and other forms of maltreatment.
The Principal Solicitor will implement and oversee the program, responding to children and young people who are at risk of, or who have experienced maltreatment.
In this role you will make a positive difference in the lives of young people Australia-wide and work alongside dedicated Solicitors and children’s rights advocates.
The Principal Solicitor will work closely with YLA’s Director, fellow solicitors, pro bono solicitors, law student volunteers, interns and trainees to provide technology-enabled legal information, advice and assistance. Because YLA’s practice is paperless and delivered via YLA’s bespoke technology platform, collaboration, support, and supervision occurs within our network of lawyers and law student volunteers.
Interested Principal Solicitors should be technology savvy and comfortable working across multiple digital platforms, including live chat, soft phone, email and in online case management systems.
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for the position.
We would greatly value discussing your interest in this position. Please email [email protected], using the subject line: Principal Solicitor - Australia-wide enquiry via EthicalJobs, to arrange a call with Director, Matthew Keeley, or Legal Operations Manager, Kate Richardson.
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