• Location: TEWLS, Darwin
• Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer and Principal Lawyer
• Term: Fixed-term, 12-month contract
• Classification: SCHADS Level 5.1 – 5.3 ($88,757.76 - $92,775.80), plus 10.5% superannuation, as well as six (6) weeks annual leave and leave loading
• Position basis: Full-time (38 hours per week) preferred

The Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) seeks a CLE Lawyer / Project 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.

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 (‘CLE’), 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

In 2023, TEWLS will deliver a one-off project to enhance outreach legal services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, with focus on the creation of plain English CLE materials and resources, as well as the delivery of CLE in collaboration with the TEWLS legal and support practices to enhance community engagement and understandings of legal issues.

The CLE Lawyer / Project Officer will work within TEWLS’ dedicated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander outreach team comprising legal and project officer staff and will be expected to apply (and if required, acquire) a high level of expertise to provide CLE services across a range of matters, with a focus on DFSV matters, including CLE delivery and community relationship-building. Additionally, the CLE Lawyer / Project Officer will provide legal information and referral to women, with the ability to provide limited legal services if elected.

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 use your legal skills away from casework and within a superstar team, this role is for you!

WHAT WE OFFER

At TEWLS, we offer:

• Competitive remuneration package (Level 5.1 – 5.3 ($88,757.76 - $92,775.80)], including 10.5% superannuation, salary sacrifice and six (6) weeks’ annual leave with leave loading
• A supportive environment dedicated to developing and maintaining employee wellbeing and resilience, while supporting your professional development
• Front-line work within a supportive and integrated practice
• 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.

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: Community Legal Education Lawyer / Project 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.

A position description is attached.