Job Summary
- $102,546.00 - $115,537.24 + 11% employer superannuation, leave loading, salary packaging options.
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 1st May 2024
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The Australian Centre for Disability Law (ACDL) is a specialist legal centre based in Sydney, which operates a disability discrimination law practice across NSW, and a disability and human rights law practice across Australia. It was established in 1994 to assist people with disability and their associates to learn about and pursue their rights under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth).
ACDL is governed by a community-based Management Committee and is staffed by an Executive Officer/Principal Solicitor, a senior solicitor, four part-time solicitors, a paralegal and a team of 5 volunteers, including volunteer solicitors from law firms.
The role of the Solicitor is to provide legal services in disability discrimination and generalist areas of law to people with disability and their associates, supervision of the Advice Line service and outreach clinics, undertaking projects in community legal education, legal reform, legal policy analysis and other projects as they arise.
This position will require travel to locations outside the Sydney metropolitan area to deliver legal services at outreach clinics and community legal education seminars.
This role comprises the following legal services:
A position description is appended below.
Applicants are required to respond to the following essential selection criteria:
To apply for this position, you will need to carefully read the selection criteria.
All applications must include a covering letter, CV and individual responses to the Essential Selection Criteria and Desirable Selection Criteria. Each selection criterion should appear as a heading with your response below. Applicants who do not individually address each of the selection criteria will not be interviewed.
People with disability and their associates, people from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait background or culturally and linguistically diverse background are encouraged to apply.
Please submit a covering letter, your responses to the selection criteria and CV via the "Apply Now" button or phone the Principal Solicitor, Mark Patrick on (02) 7229 0068.
A position description is appended below.
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