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NAAJA provides legal aid for Indigenous people in the Northern Territory, with offices in Darwin, Palmerston, Katherine, Tennant Creek and Alice Springs.

We are considered to be a leading Australian legal service and have received both national and Northern Territory human rights awards for our work. We are committed to providing quality representation for our clients and bringing about long term change in the justice system. Our staff are motivated, dedicated and do work that matters.

NAAJA’s civil law practice is an extremely busy and diverse one, with practice areas including police accountability, child protection, adult guardianship, consumer, discrimination, tenancy, social security and victims of crime assistance claims.

The key responsibilities of the position are:

1. To assist the Chief Executive Officer and Principal Legal Officer in obtaining, coordinating and effectively using resources in servicing the Civil Law section.
2. To ensure the efficient, effective, culturally appropriate and trauma informed provision of civil law services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Northern Territory.
3. Identify issues that cause disadvantage to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the civil justice system and to assist NAAJA through the Principal Legal Officer to respond to those issues through strategic casework (including litigation), advocacy and law reform.

The right candidate will have:

• Admission (or eligibility for admission) as a legal practitioner in the Northern Territory with a minimum of 5 years post-admission experience in civil law.
• Demonstrated ability as a manager of staff and resources in a complex legal environment including leadership skills of a high standard.
• Substantial legal experience (including litigation), ideally with sound knowledge in some or all of the following areas of law:
  1. Discrimination and equal opportunity.
  2. Child protection.
  3. Administrative law.
  4. Tenancy.
  5. Consumer protection including consumer credit.
  6. Tort including intentional torts.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in the Northern Territory.

The position offers attractive employment benefits including:

• Salary of EO4.1 $172,269 to EO4.3 $186,527 per annum (dependent on experience) plus superannuation
• Salary packaging options
• 6 weeks annual leave per year with leave loading
• Annual airfare

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are encouraged to apply.

A copy of the full position description is attached.