Job Summary

• $104,846 per annum + super + NFP salary packaging
• 5 weeks annual leave
• Hybrid working model (office and working from home)
• Melbourne > Melbourne CBD
• 2 Vacancies
• 1 x Full time ongoing and 1 x 12-month Fixed-term Contract

Job description

• Be a part of a feminist community organisation supporting Victorian women.
• Your expertise will directly contribute to building a more gender-equitable society
• Located in Melbourne's legal precinct, with public transport on your doorstep.
• Hybrid working model (office and working from home), promoting a true work/life balance.
• A welcoming, passionate, and supportive work culture.
• Competitive remuneration, bonus leave days, flexible work arrangements, salary packaging.

About Women’s Legal Service Victoria

Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Women’s Legal) is a specialised and state-wide organisation providing services and support to women since 1982. Informed by our feminist practice, we improve the legal system for victim-survivors of family and sexual violence through our integrated legal service, capacity building, advocacy and law reform. Our vision is for women and non-binary people to live free from violence and discrimination in a gender equitable society. 

Women’s Legal is an employer of choice, providing an inclusive, flexible, and supportive environment for our staff to thrive. We welcome women across all career stages, and we recognise the many roles played by women in their families and communities. We are committed to supporting women’s participation in employment through building skills and knowledge for those looking for a change, and valuing the diverse expertise brought into our organisation.  

Our culture

We’re continually building on our culture of inclusivity, collaboration and safety so our teams and individuals thrive. We value diversity, build empathy and consider impact to foster belonging and create equity.

Together, we are:

Everyone who works at Women's Legal plays an important role in upholding our ethics outlined in the Code of Conduct and living our values. 

Together, we are:   

• Inclusive: We actively listen and ensure that marginalised voices are centred in every forum we create. 
• Purposeful: Our work leads us to achieve our strategy.  We invest in learning and continuous improvement to achieve our impact.  
• Courageous: We take the challenging path to learn, grow and achieve our strategy.
• Collaborative: We value and actively foster involvement of a diversity of views, experiences and expertise to work together to achieve better outcomes. 
• Authentic: We are honest and accountable.  We seek to learn from our successes and failures.

Your new role

We are hiring 1 full-time ongoing Coordinator to work in our team focused on provision of training to the legal sector, and an additional 12 month fixed-term contract to work in our team designing and delivering training for community sector professionals.

Reporting to a Manager, Education and Engagement, you will:

• Design and deliver evidence-based, best-practice family violence, family law, migration and/or child protection training and capacity building that build the capability of professionals supporting people experiencing family and sexual violence
• Work with a passionate, multidisciplinary team to create innovative learning experiences, including workshops and e-learning resources
• Partner with a wide range of organisations and stakeholders to strengthen sector-wide responses and improve outcomes for victim-survivors
• Use your creativity and project management skills to plan, develop and evaluate education initiatives that drive real-world change
• Facilitate engaging training and capacity building initiatives for diverse audiences, helping professionals build confidence and practical skills
• Contribute to meaningful organisational projects, policy development and continuous improvement initiatives
• Be part of a values-driven organisation committed to intersectional feminism, collaboration, and social impact
• Grow your expertise in education design, facilitation and capacity building in a supportive and flexible work environment

What you’ll need to succeed

You are a driven, motivated self-starter who can work collaboratively to help us deliver our commitment to being a centre of excellence. You are motivated to improve the system and service response for victim survivors of family and sexual violence through workforce development.   

Key to your success is your:

Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Behaviour:

• Ability to plan, design, develop, implement best practice training and capacity building initiatives, including continuous improvement and the development of learning resources;
• Strong project management skills, including setting priorities, planning and organising work;
• Applied strategic and systemic thinking and the ability to foster these skills in others;
• Design and deliver effective competency-based training;
• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills;
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and with subject matter experts;
• Ability to effectively network with a range of stakeholders;
• Able to undertake occasional travel to several locations;
• Demonstrated ability to be flexible, particularly whilst working in an environment of change;
• Understanding of and ability to apply an intersectional feminist framework.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience in training development, facilitation and continuous improvement within a family violence and/or family law context; and experience in project management and stakeholder engagement
• Project management and stakeholder engagement
• A tertiary degree in law and legal practice experience in family law or family violence law and/or a tertiary degree in social work (or related field) and relevant practice experience in family violence (highly regarded).
• Experience in delivery of education programs that explain legal matters, the law and/or legal systems (highly regarded); and
• Ability to use a Learning Management System (desirable).

What you’ll get in return

In return for your dedication, we offer competitive remuneration, bonus leave days between Christmas and New Year, flexible work arrangements, salary packaging, support for your wellbeing with access to our EAP and annual reimbursement limit for your own mental health professional, plus a vibrant, supportive work culture.

To Apply

Submit a resume and covering letter to tell us how you are the right candidate for this role and address how you align to Women’s Legal values and the essential criteria, that are listed above.

See the Women’s Legal ‘Work with Us’ page for a full position description.

Research shows that women are less likely to apply for roles if they don’t meet 100% of the selection criteria. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria, but this role sounds like a good fit for you.  

Any other enquiries can be emailed to Jo Scollo, People & Culture Officer at [email protected] using the subject line: Education & Engagement Coordinators x2 enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We will begin interviews immediately, so please apply as soon as possible.

COMMITMENT TO INCLUSON

We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace. We recognise our work benefits greatly from the unique knowledge, skills, and expertise of individuals with diverse experiences, including women and non-binary people who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, with disability, with lived experience of family and sexual violence, and from migrant, refugee, culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds.  If this is you, we strongly encourage you to apply.

Note, Women's Legal relies on an exception under the Equal Opportunity Act to employ women and non-binary people only.

A position description is attached.