Job Summary
Remote / Work from Home
- The full-time annual salary for this role is $134,627 + superannuation + salary packaging
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 22nd Aug 2024
Remote / Work from Home
The Human Rights Law Centre, Australia’s leading independent national human rights organisation, seeks an Associate Legal Director. Reporting to the Director of First Nations Justice, the Associate Legal Director will have a leadership role in supporting the First Nations Justice team’s high-impact legal and advocacy work to execute our criminal justice and child rights strategy.
This is a part-time or full-time (0.8 - 1.0 FTE), 10 month parental leave backfill position.
The Human Rights Law Centre supports flexible and remote working. We have offices in Melbourne and Sydney, and will consider applicants from anywhere in Australia.
The Human Rights Law Centre uses strategic legal action, policy solutions and advocacy to support people and communities to promote and protect human rights to build a fairer, more compassionate Australia.
Our vision is an Australia where everyone is free to lead a decent, dignified life; where our laws, policies and institutions promote fairness and equality; and where people and communities have the power to address inequality and injustice and ensure that governments always act in the public interest.
We maximise our impact by working closely with key partners, including community organisations, pro bono law firms and barristers, academics and experts, and international and domestic human rights organisations. We are independent of government and business, with most of our funding coming from donations and philanthropic grants.
The Human Rights Law Centre is a registered charity with public benevolent status and offices in Melbourne and Sydney. We are a diverse team with a strong, shared commitment to creating a better, fairer Australia.
The Human Rights Law Centre is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce.
The First Nations Justice team advocates in close partnership with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander leaders and organisations for a fair legal system that is free from racial injustice and that upholds the principles of dignity, equality and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples’ right to self-determination.
The team’s current strategic goals are to:
The HRLC’s Partnership Principles provide a framework for ensuring our work supports Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ right to self-determination.
Reporting to the Director, First Nations’ Justice, the Associate Legal Director has a leadership role in supporting the First Nations’ Justice team’s high-impact legal and advocacy work. The Associate Legal Director will help to shape and lead the Centre’s work in conjunction with the Director of First Nations Justice.
The Associate Legal Director reports to the Director of First Nations Justice and is responsible for leading and supporting relevant legal and policy work to advance the Human Rights Law Centre’s strategic objectives under its strategic plan. The successful applicant will have significant expertise in human rights legal frameworks, as well as in conducting litigation or complex legal campaigns. It is essential that the successful applicant has experience working with First Nations People and has demonstrated cultural competency when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
The Associate Legal Director will work as part of a talented team to execute our criminal justice and child rights strategy. The incumbent will also leverage significant pro bono resources from law firms and barristers, including secondee lawyer support, to achieve our strategic goals.
Full details of this role including selection criteria are set out in the position description.
The Human Rights Law Centre is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce. We know our team and our work is stronger with a diversity of backgrounds and experience, including lived experience of the issues we work on. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people of colour, people from culturally and linguistically diverse and refugee backgrounds, people with diverse religious beliefs, women, LGBTIQ+ people and people with a disability are strongly encouraged to apply.
The position is a fixed term position with a six-month probation period.
The full-time annual salary for this role is $134,627. You will have access to generous salary packaging provisions, 5 weeks annual leave and four days of additional wellbeing leave each year.
The tax savings for staff who take full advantage of salary packaging options can significantly increase their take home pay.
The Human Rights Law Centre’s Enterprise Agreement also provides paid cultural and ceremonial leave. See further: Human Rights Law Centre Enterprise Agreement.
The Human Rights Law Centre offers flexible working arrangements, opportunities for professional development and mentoring, and a workplace culture that is collaborative, dynamic, values diversity and is committed to learning and looking after each other.
If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with all the selection criteria in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. We welcome and support diversity in all its forms and believe that a wide range of experiences and perspectives enriches our organisation and our work.
For further information including how to apply, see the Recruitment Pack attached below.
For further information about the Human Rights Law Centre, see www.hrlc.org.au.
Remote / Work from Home