Job Summary
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- Job posted on: 29th Feb 2024
In the face of rising levels of unmet legal need, Justice Connect designs and delivers high impact interventions to increase access to legal support and progress social justice.
Justice Connect’s Access Program is a multidisciplinary team of in-house legal, data, project, and service design expertise. We collaborate to increase access to legal assistance and progress social justice by responding quickly to a wide range of legal problems with a particular focus on disaster response, financial rights and employment law problems. We have expertise in dealing with issues that have escalated to court proceedings with a long history of running court-based services across a range of jurisdictions.
Our legal services use a range of approaches including specialist advice, pro bono referrals (leveraging our network of over 10,000 pro bono lawyers) and online resources to help people experiencing legal problems. We also operate weekly pro bono clinics for help seekers involved in litigation in Victorian courts, Federal courts and VCAT.
Our strategy commits us to identifying ways to scale legal help with digital solutions, including our in-house developed digital platform, Justice Connect Answers (JCA). We seek to identify and respond quickly to emerging legal need in the community. In all our work, we centre client experience and our commitment to impact.
You'll bring to the team experience in the following areas:
In this role, you’ll work to:
If you were here last week, you would have:
We believe is creating an environment where people will thrive.
If you want your next role to have purpose, support you to master new skills and build meaningful relationships then Justice Connect is the place to work.
We offer a range of benefits including:
The position reports to the Head of Access Program.
Employment is full time (37.5 hours per week) fixed term parental leave backfill for 12 months. Part-time requests will be considered.
The salary for this role is $117,186.56 per annum (pro rata) (plus 11% superannuation) with annual leave loading and generous salary packaging options.
This role can be based at our Melbourne or Sydney CBD offices with 40% of the month in the workplace with hybrid working arrangements.
Please upload your resume and a cover letter which outlines your relevant skills and experience that will help you achieve success in this role.
For further information contact Nadine Bartholomeusz-Raymond on 03 8636 4472.
Applications will be reviewed as they are received and interviews will be scheduled accordingly.