• This is an identified position for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants ONLY.
• Salary Offering: $108,000 - $115,000 (full-time equivalent) per annum plus 11.5% Superannuation
• Office Locations: 273, High Street Preston Victoria 3072.
• This role is full-time fixed term until April 2026.

Additional Benefits:

• 17.5% Leave Loading
• 5 extra days leave on top of 20 days annual leave
• Only required to work 35 hours per week
• Access to company vehicles for any work-related trips
• Salary packaging is available via Maxxia

Overview of the role

The Cultural Learning Consultant role is an exciting opportunity to collaborate in the development of relevant training and practice guidance to legal professionals to enable them to meet the capabilities needed for working with First Nations clients. The role would sit within the First Nations Cultural Capability Framework project team.

The First Nations Cultural Capability Uplift Project is a partnership of the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, Victoria Legal Aid, and the Law Institute of Victoria. It aims to build the cultural capability of the legal assistance sector and thereby improve the experience of legal support and representation for First Nations peoples in Victoria and contribute to more equitable justice outcomes. It includes:

• An overarching Framework. This sets out the knowledge, attitudes, and skills (practices and behaviours) that practitioners require to support their delivery of culturally appropriate and responsive legal and non-legal support services to First Nations people seeking legal assistance.
• Development and delivery of training to the legal sector across Victoria in advice and representation for First Nations people.
• Development of other guides and tools to support better practice.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the development, refinement, and adaptation of training materials to meet best-practice learning design principles and address the evolving needs of legal professionals.
• Utilise the VALS Learning Management System to build the online training component.
• Enable the input of legal sector-specific insights and expertise, integrating legal practice considerations into training content and delivery.
• Collaborate with key internal and external stakeholders to support the planning, coordination, and implementation of a pilot training program to accompany the First
• Nations Cultural Capability Framework.
• Provide administrative and technical support to members of the Project Team to facilitate learner engagement activities, including:
  • i) Supporting participant registration and tracking attendance
  • ii) Setting up and monitoring online training platforms
  • iii) Troubleshooting basic tech issues before and during sessions to ensure smooth delivery
• Conduct training needs analyses.
• Analyse observations and feedback from training sessions to support ongoing improvements to training content and delivery.

Key Selection Criteria

• Understanding of the legal and non-legal needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their experiences in interacting with the legal system.
• Understanding of First Nations cultural capability building activities and strategies within legal or other service delivery settings.
• (Desirable but not essential) Legal experience or experience working with lawyers and/or in a public sector legal environment.
• (Desirable but not essential) Experience in the development of training and capability building materials.
• Demonstrated skills in communicating with and consulting diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to work with qualitative and quantitative data to develop insights and recommendations that improve cultural capability training design.
• A knowledge of the general business of VALS and a commitment to our vision and values.

Qualifications and experience

• This position is only open to First Nations people (mandatory).
• Experience in the justice or legal assistance sector (highly desirable).
• Demonstrated experience working in a similar role or a willingness to undergo training to develop the required skills.

Personal accountability

• Compliance with all VALS values, code of conduct, policies and procedures and relevant government l legislation and standards where relevant.
• Demonstrate a commitment to the principles of social justice and aim to ensure every individual is treated with dignity and respect regardless of their background, ability, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation or religion.
• Ensure appropriate use of resources.
• Actively participate in initiatives to maintain, build upon and promote a positive and collaborative workplace.
• Take reasonable care for your own health & safety, and health and safety of others (to extent required)
• Maintain own self-care and wellbeing with support of line management.
• Promptly respond to and report health and safety hazards, incidents and near misses to management.
• Attend mandatory training sessions (ie. equal employment opportunity, health and safety cultural safety) and mandatory training specific to position.

Mandatory Requirement

On offer of this position, you must:

• Provide a copy of your current Employee Working with Children Check card
• Provide a copy of your current Victorian Driver’s Licence
• Complete a current Criminal History Police Check
• Proof of rights to work in Australia, i.e. a copy of an Australian Passport, Birth Certificate or Immigration VISA documentation
• Provide copies of any certificates or degrees relevant to this role

This is an identified position for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants ONLY.