Lawyer

Our Team

In the face of rising levels of unmet legal need, Justice Connect designs and delivers high impact interventions to increase access to legal support and progress social justice.

Justice Connect’s Access Program is a multidisciplinary team of in-house legal, data, project, and service design expertise. We collaborate to increase access to legal assistance and progress social justice by responding quickly to a wide range of legal problems with a particular focus on disaster response, financial rights and employment law problems. We have expertise in dealing with issues that have escalated to court proceedings with a long history of running court-based services across a range of jurisdictions. 

Our legal services use a range of approaches including specialist advice, pro bono referrals (leveraging our network of over 10,000 pro bono lawyers) and online resources to help people experiencing legal problems. We also operate weekly pro bono clinics for help seekers involved in litigation in Victorian courts, Federal courts and VCAT. 

Our strategy commits us to identifying ways to scale legal help with digital solutions, including our in-house developed digital platform, Justice Connect Answers (JCA). We seek to identify and respond quickly to emerging legal need in the community. In all our work, we centre client experience and our commitment to impact. 

Our ideal candidate

You'll bring to the team experience in the following areas:

• A minimum of 1+ years unsupervised practice as a lawyer (or equivalent experience in a legal role)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to successfully build and maintain key relationships, including with sector collaborators and internal stakeholders
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in plain English
• Ability to work with members of the community experiencing disadvantage and vulnerability

Candidates will need to demonstrate commitment to Justice Connect's vision, strategy and values.

What you will achieve in the role

In this role, you’ll work to:

• Support self-represented litigants to represent themselves at court
• Identify unmet legal needs and legal matters with public interest
• Facilitate referral to pro bono lawyers
• Develop relationships with community stakeholders and undertake outreach and engagement activities
• Review and develop plain English information resources

A week in this role

If you were here last week, you would have:

• Prepared advice plans for clinic appointments for self-represented litigants
• Delivered legal advice to a self-represented litigant in relation to service of documents
• Prepared several referrals to pro bono lawyers on behalf of clients seeking pro bono representation
• Met with a community legal centre to share information about Justice Connect's Access Program services
• Attended a strategic team meeting to discuss team strategy and meeting client need

What we offer

We believe is creating an environment where people will thrive.

If you want your next role to have purpose, support you to master new skills and build meaningful relationships then Justice Connect is the place to work.

We offer a range of benefits including:

• Progressive leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements with a minimum of 40% in the workplace attendance across the month
• Access to EAP
• New hire and ongoing learning and development

How to Apply

Please upload your resume and a cover letter which outlines your skills and experience that will help you achieve success in this role.  

For further information contact Hannah Muller on 02 8599 2110

Applications close on 2 October 2024 at 11:59 PM.

Important role information

The position reports to the Principal Lawyer.

Employment is full time fixed term until enter 30 June 2025.

The salary for this role is $100,883.02 per annum (plus 11.5% superannuation) with annual leave loading and generous salary packaging options.  

This role can be based at our Melbourne or Sydney CBD offices with 40% of the month in the workplace with hybrid working arrangements.

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