• Opportunity to work as a Solicitor/Clinical Supervisor
• Full time (35 hours/week) fixed term for 12 months
• Level 6/7

The School of Law and Justice at UNSW is seeking to employ a Solicitor/Clinical Supervisor at Kingsford Legal Centre who will provide advice, casework and community legal education in areas of law relevant to our service, with a particular focus on credit and debt. The solicitor/clinical supervisor will deal with legal issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic recession.

KLC works in a community development model and provides generalist legal advice and conduct casework in conjunction with the other lawyers employed at the Centre; participate in the Centre’s community outreaches; deliver quality clinical legal education to UNSW Law students and oversee the Centre’s advice nights on a weekly basis.

Skills and Experience

• Eligible to practise as a solicitor New South Wales.
• Demonstrated experience in providing high quality legal advice, with a focus on people experiencing financial hardship, in areas such as credit and debt or another area relevant to KLC’s practice.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including experience working with people from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with a disability and people from culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
• Experience working in a community legal centre, or legal aid environment and a good understanding of the legal assistance sector.
• Experience in developing and delivering community legal education events and modules to key stakeholders.

In addition to the above for Level 7:

• Extensive experience in advice and casework, in particular in the area of credit and debt law, or another area relevant to KLC’s practice.
• Extensive experience in delivering community legal education events across all stakeholders using the latest technology and developing new community legal education strategies in response to legal need.
• Demonstrated experience in law reform work, including submission and report writing.
• Proven experience providing legal supervision to solicitors, volunteers and students.

Applicants should systematically address the selection criteria found in the position description in their application.

Contact: Emma Golledge, KLC director and Senior Lecturer UNSW Law

E: [email protected], using the subject line: Solicitor / Clinical Supervisor enquiry via EthicalJobs