Exciting opportunity to lead the resourcing function for a values-driven organisation.

• Full time ongoing position (part time considered)
• Salary commensurate with experience, range: $118,802 – $151,201 (pro rata) plus super
• Attractive employee benefits including salary packaging

About the role:
Reporting to the Director, People and Culture (P&C), and as a member of the P&C management team, you will provide high level advice to senior executives on strategic resourcing, demographics, workforce metrics and trends. You will lead a small team overseeing progressive and fit for purpose recruitment strategies to support general recruitment and deliver VLA's Clerkship, Graduate and New Lawyer pathway programs.

You will also lead and manage the delivery of priority actions and recruitment initiatives that support diversity and inclusion strategies and contribute to the development of resourcing plans that support VLA's broader Diversity and Inclusion Framework, including responsibility for goals outlined in VLA's Aboriginal Employment Strategy.

About you:
You are an enthusiastic and engaging leader with experience managing, leading and motivating a team to deliver results. You think systemically and laterally in providing workforce strategies and solutions, while simultaneously evolving effective operational recruitment and resourcing processes. You can influence, negotiate, inspire confidence, build rapport and drive change with a demonstrated understanding of workforce planning methodologies and experience in providing an internal end-to-end recruitment function.

Ideally, your experience within a complex service environment has provided you with an understanding of public sector workforce planning and recruitment. Most importantly, you are looking for an opportunity to bring your experience and contribute as part of a supportive team that is passionate about their role in building and supporting a values-aligned workforce.

About Victoria Legal Aid:
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.

Employee benefits:

• Family friendly, flexible hybrid work from home & office model
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Supportive team environment in modern offices
• Salary packaging which allows up to $15,900 of your salary each year to be tax free

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.

VLA employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. It is also 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.

For further information review the attached position description or contact John Byrne, Director, People and Culture on (03) 9269 0621.

No agency applications will be accepted.

Applications close by 11.59pm on Sunday, 14 August 2022.