ABOUT US

Inner Melbourne Community Legal is a not-for-profit community organisation that provides free legal assistance to disadvantaged people in the City of Melbourne area. Our mission is to promote social justice and the health and wellbeing of the community through advocacy, education and casework.

We focus our resources towards helping the most disadvantaged members of the community including individuals experiencing homelessness, mental illness, disability, substance dependency and individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

Following an amalgamation of Inner Melbourne Community Legal and Flemington Kensington Community Legal Centre in 2022, IMCL now operates across two sites in North Melbourne and Kensington, and delivers multiple integrated outreach services in partnership with other community organisations in the local area. A signature program is the Police Accountability Project, which assists people experiencing police harmand advocates for systemic reform.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are looking to recruit volunteers for various programs across the organisation, for both legal and non-legal roles. The non-legal roles will be working with our Intake Paralegals or our Director of Strategy, Engagement & Projects.

The legal areas that we are recruiting volunteers for are Migration, Fines, Family, Criminal. We are also recruiting volunteers for our Duty Lawyer Service at Melbourne Magistrates Court and our Police Accountability Project.

Please call our Legal Practice and Operation Manager, Tori Diamond if you would like to discuss any of the duties involved in these roles.

As we are recruiting for a variety of roles, we welcome applications from legal and non-legal students in any stage of their degree. However, the roles are not available for students looking for PLT placements.

The successful applicants will be skilled in dealing with a wide range of people, show excellent attention to detail and have a keen interest in the work of IMCL. These positions will work closely with our fun and dedicated team committed to social justice.

These roles will require our volunteers to work across both of our office locations, in North Melbourne and Kensington. Both offices are easily accessible by public transport, including the 57-tram route.

IMCL highly values a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people living with a disability, people of all ages and people who identify as LGBTIQ+.

Please also note that we are recruiting for both legal and non-legal volunteers, please specify in your application which role you would prefer.

Please submit your application via the "Apply Now" button below.

If you have any further questions, please contact the Legal Practice and Operation Manager on 9328 1885 or email at [email protected], using the subject line: Volunteer Paralegals enquiry via EthicalJobs.

A position description is attached.