About Community Legal WA

As the peak body for the community legal sector in WA, Community Legal WA is charged with building capacity and expertise, and promoting effectiveness and efficiency, across our 26 member centres. Through law reform campaigns, advocacy, projects, operational support and community and legal professional education, our staff contribute to a variety of human rights and social justice projects.

About the Role

The Project Manager is a new fixed term position that will lead an exciting new initiative, the Family and Domestic Violence Legal Health Check Project. This project will work with community legal centres and community service organisations supporting women experiencing family and domestic violence across the state to:

• Be trained in the Legal Health Check tool
• Develop local referral pathways and collaborative relationships across sectors
• Increase capacity of Community Legal Centres (CLCs) to respond to referrals

This is a strategically significant project for CLWA which will require a high level of competence across attention to detail, project methodology and stakeholder engagement.

This position will lead the project, developing and implementing project methodology and evaluation and managing the contribution of other team members. With excellent communication skills, you will have a strong focus on building relationships and collaboration with member CLCs and community service organisations and will convene and facilitate the Project Reference Group.

This position is based in our Perth office, with some travel around WA.

Benefits include flexible hours and generous salary packaging. This position part-time is ideally 0.8 FTE although 0.6 FTE will be considered.

Salary: SACS Award level 8.1

Employment type: Fixed Term to 31 May 2022

Do You Have What We Are Looking For?

To fill this varied and exciting role, we are looking for candidates with:

• Ability to cultivate strong relationships, with proven experience in successfully consulting and engaging internal and external stakeholders in collaborative initiatives.
• A strong track record of successfully managing projects, inclusive of development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.
• Meet project deliverables and deadlines, adapting quickly and effectively to changing contexts.
• Skills in developing and delivering community education or workshops.
• Experience in the community sector, with experience in and understanding of family and domestic violence or community legal sectors desirable.

We Would Like to Hear from You!

Feel free to contact Chelsea on 0435 152 424 with any questions regarding the role.

Please note that applications will be assessed as they come in and the position may be filled prior to the closing date.

A position description is attached.