Lawyer
Djirra, Australia
Job Description
- Full-time, fixed term (12 months) position
- Convenient inner-city location
- Generous SCHCADS Award Salary - SCHCADS Level 4 Pay Point 4 $88,277pa
About the Organisation
Djirra is an Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisation with over 20 years’ experience accompanying Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women, and their children, on their individual journeys. We find solutions through Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women sharing their stories, journeys, and experiences. Djirra celebrates women’s strength and resilience. We are committed to a future without family violence.
We deliver holistic, culturally safe, specialist family violence support, legal services and case management, alongside cultural and wellbeing workshops, and programs. Our services have state-wide reach, touching every part of Victoria to meet the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. Self-determination is the foundation of everything we do.
Djirra amplifies the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. We advocate for system-wide change to improve access to justice, eliminate systemic violence, and strengthen women’s resilience.
We are an active member of the National Family Violence Prevention and Legal Services Forum, the peak body for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who are experiencing or at risk of family violence.
About the Role
The Aboriginal Family Violence Legal Service (AFVLS) is a program of Djirra. AFVLS provides legal and non-legal assistance and facilitates access to justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who have experienced family violence or sexual assault.
AFVLS operates a culturally safe, trauma informed, holistic and intensive client service model. Clients are assisted by Lawyers and Paralegal Support Workers to access a variety of legal, social, psychological, cultural, health and other support services to address their complex needs and issues.
Lawyers provide legal services including advice, representation and advocacy in the areas of:
- child protection
- family violence intervention orders
- family law; and
- victims of crime assistance.
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.
Requirements
Essential
- National Police Check
- Working with Children’s Check
- Drivers Licence if required as per position description
- Specific qualifications required as per position description
- Eligible to hold a legal practising certificate in Victoria.
- A degree in law.
Desirable
- At least one year of practical experience in a community legal, family violence or justice related setting.
Applications will close Tue 22 August 2023 at 5pm.
Benefits
- Attractive salary packaging options (including meals and entertainment)
- Generous leave provisions apply
- Employee Assistance Program with supportive, confidential counselling for personal and work concern
- Conveniently located a few hundred metres from the Eastern Freeway entrance and Victoria Park train station and nearby to some great cafes, restaurants, and the Smith St shopping precinct
- Cultural awareness training in both formal and informal settings is provided