5 days remaining
Location: Melbourne | CBD
Job type: Fixed term / up to June 2025
Organisation: Victoria Legal Aid
Salary: $76,426 - $98,901
Occupation: Legal
Reference: VG/LHOX6
Looking to really make a impact to the Victorian community by assisting disadvantaged client with information on legal matters.
About the role:
We are seeking highly motivated individuals to join the Legal Help team to provide accurate, responsive and high-quality legal assistance by delivering legal information on a wide range of legal matters and referrals to legal and non-legal services via our phone and webchat services. This position does not require you to provide legal advice and does not involve ongoing case work or court advocacy.
This is an opportunity to be part of a unique service providing an accessible and holistic intake and referral triage service aimed at ensuring that Victorians are provided with the appropriate supports to assist them with their legal needs.
Prior experience will be highly regarded and are encouraged to apply if you have:
This role is based at our Melbourne CBD office on Wurundjeri Country
About you:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
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 and Legal Help:
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1000 staff employed in 15 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.
Legal Help is a leader in technology and the law. It provides responsive and targeted high quality legal help to more than 145,000 community members by diagnosing legal problems in a wide range of areas, providing legal information, legal advice and referrals to legal and non-legal services. It provides more intensive services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people in the community and delivers legal services directly in different languages. The service also includes the Prison Legal Help, Disaster Legal Help, Victims Legal Service and Legal Help Live Chat. In addition, Legal Help staff provide face to face services in the Family Advocacy and Support Services program at Court.
Employee benefits:
How to apply:
To be considered for this role, please submit a current resume and completed candidate application form (listed within the file attachments).
If you require adjustment 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.
For further information review the attached position description or contact Josephine LA SPINA, Project Officer, Resource & Professional Development on (03) 9269 0205.
No agency applications will be accepted.
Applications close by 11.59pm on Sunday 5 May 2024
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.
Fixed term / up to June 2025
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Josephine LA SPINA | (03) 9269 0205