• Full-time ongoing position (part-time applications considered)
• Salary range: $98,902 - $123,624 (pro rata) plus super plus salary packaging
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model

About the role

Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) is seeking a dedicated Senior Lawyer to join our dynamic Indictable Crime practice. While this is a senior position, we welcome applications from experienced junior lawyers who are eager to develop their skills and practice. Training and development opportunities are available for the right candidate!!

As a Senior Lawyer, your primary focus will be carriage of serious indictable files, utilising your legal knowledge to provide high-quality casework, advocacy and legal advice services to individuals facing significant legal challenges.

Additionally, you will take on a leadership role by mentoring and supervising junior lawyers across our criminal law practice, ensuring they deliver exceptional client service and grow professionally under your guidance.

This role is based at our Shepparton office on Yorta Yorta and Bangerang Country with frequent travel in the Goulburn region.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Experience in criminal law practice, particularly in indictable offences.
• Ability to present compelling arguments and effectively represent clients in court.
• High level of interpersonal skills to effectively communicate and negotiate with diverse stakeholders including staff, clients and external organisations.
• Experience in leading, mentoring, supervising and training junior staff.
• Demonstrated experience in providing strategic legal advice and policy recommendations within tight deadlines.
• A current Australian practising certificate which entitles you to practise in Victoria as a government legal practitioner (mandatory).

Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.

About Victoria Legal Aid

We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1400 staff employed in 16 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.

Employee benefits

• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
• Hybrid work from home & office model
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance
• Relocation allowance offered if relocating for this role

How to apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your current resume and a cover letter.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team via [email protected] using the subject line: Senior Lawyer, Indictable Crime - Shepparton enquiry via EthicalJobs.

For further information, please review the attached position description or contact Erica Molyneaux, Regional Manager on (03) 5823 6216 or [email protected].

No agency applications will be accepted.

Other relevant information

It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.

VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.

A position description is attached.