The Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) seeks an Administration Officer to join our vibrant and expanding team and help achieve our vision – a community in which women enjoy and are entitled to legal and social justice.

• Location: TEWLS, Darwin
• Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer
• Term: Permanent and ongoing
• Classification: SCHADS Level 2.1 – 2.4 ($60,180.12 – $65,661.44) plus 10.5% superannuation, as well as six (6) weeks annual leave and leave loading
• Position basis: Full-time (38 hours per week), with part-time applicants considered

ABOUT TEWLS

TEWLS is a not-for-profit, specialist women’s legal service providing integrated legal and support services for all women and persons identifying as women in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

Based in beautiful Darwin, TEWLS provides integrated, holistic, trauma-informed and culturally secure free legal advice, casework and representation, information and referral, wraparound social support, community legal education, and advocacy in the areas of civil, family and migration law. TEWLS is a specialist domestic, family and sexual violence legal service, with particular expertise in providing services to women with intersectional vulnerabilities.

TEWLS provides a vital role for women in the Top End. At an individual level, the service responds to and facilitates women’s experiences and realities, with specialist and responsive legal services. At a systemic level, clients’ collective experiences establish a salient foundation and platform for informed service advocacy and calls for systemic improvement and change.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Under the supervision of the TEWLS Chief Executive Officer, the Administration Officer role will assist in the day-to-day operations of the service and will provide high quality and culturally appropriate administrative and customer service support to the service and its client base, critical to the successful running of TEWLS.

The Administration Officer will have key responsibilities in respect of reception and telephone duties, directing and responding to enquiries, and data entry and collation. The Administration Officer will work within the current TEWLS administration and intake team, including Administration and Paralegal & Intake Officers.

Notably, TEWLS’ specialist practice provides meaningful, varied, interesting, and complex work, within a supportive and trauma-informed environment.

If you are looking for a unique opportunity to work within a superstar team while in the breath-taking tropics, this role is for you!

WHAT WE OFFER

At TEWLS, we offer:

• Competitive remuneration package (SCHADS Level 2.1 – 2.4 ($60,180.12 – $65,661.44)), including 10.5% superannuation, salary sacrifice and six (6) weeks’ annual leave with leave loading
• Front-line work within a supportive and integrated practice dedicated to developing and maintaining employee wellbeing and resilience, while supporting your professional development
• The opportunity to work within an energised, passionate, and high-achieving team seeking to address gender inequity and support vulnerable women in the community

Part-time and initial remote-work applications will be considered.

TO APPLY

Applicants for this position must address the selection criteria, found within the position description (attached or contact – [email protected]). To submit your application click Apply Now and follow the instructions.

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Caitlin Weatherby-Fell, Chief Executive Officer by phone on (08) 8982 3000 or email to [email protected] using the subject line: Administration Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs.

TEWLS is committed to working together to achieve a more inclusive community. Our workplace strives to be one that embraces and celebrates diversity and the wide range of skills, expertise and experience we can all bring to strengthen our dynamic, collaborative and responsive environment.

TEWLS encourages people from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those that identify as part of LGBTIQA+ community, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, and people with disabilities.