• Highly regarded peak body for renters and driving social change
• Attractive package Salary Range $90,000 - $94,000 FTE plus super and salary packaging, 37.5-hour week + Additional Leave
• 12-month fixed-term role with potential for an ongoing role

Tenants Victoria is the peak body for renters in our state and serves as Victoria’s leading specialist tenancy community legal centre. We are a respected and influential advocate for social change, working to improve conditions for people who rent their homes and experience hardship and or disadvantage.

We believe that safe, secure, and affordable housing is an essential service and human right. Through our advice and information line, legal casework, law reform work, training, and community outreach activities, we support individual renters and community organisations. We also campaign for policy, procedural, and legislative change. Amid a rental crisis, this is a significant time to join our dynamic team and help support Victorian renters facing housing challenges across the breadth of our state.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Project and Partnerships Lawyer will lead Tenants Victoria’s work to improve legal information, advice and education to Victorian Renters affected by disasters. It will do this by strengthening partnerships with other service providers, leveraging existing Tenants Victoria services and programs and using service data and other evidence to develop and grow our programs for disaster affected renters.

ABOUT YOU:

The successful candidate will be an experienced lawyer with demonstrated stakeholder and engagement skills to deliver innovative service delivery to clients. The foundational work will include improving referral pathways, creating an integrated service approach, establishing an evaluation methodology and ensuring data collection is established

WHY CHOOSE US:

• Extra paid annual leave and access to the Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• We offer salary packaging up to $15,900 to staff, allowing you to earn more each week
• We offer a hybrid working model and collegiate working environment
• We conduct ourselves with the values of being Collaborative – we work together; Optimistic – We believe we can make a difference; Effective – We deliver; Kindness – We listen deeply.

Tenants Victoria is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, women, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, people with a disability and people identifying as LGBTIQI are encouraged to apply.