ABOUT THE ORGANISATION

Northern Community Legal Centre (NCLC) is a dynamic not-for-profit community legal centre that operates in one of the fastest-growing areas of Melbourne and has a significant catchment, including the Merri-bek, Hume and Mitchell Shire Local Government Areas. NCLC operates from a central office in Broadmeadows, a satellite office in Wallan, and with outreach clinics in other service areas. NCLC ensures services are accessible to the community by providing legal advice, education and referrals.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Projects Coordinator will be responsible for coordinating, supporting and integrating key NCLC family violence projects and partnerships including: the Rise Project (young women’s economic empowerment project), the Northwest Enhanced Pathways Project (partnership with maternal child health), the Safe Landing Project (migration and family violence support for women on temporary visas), and Safe Steps to Legal Rights (partnership with family violence crisis/refuge services in our catchment).

POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES

• Sustain strong partnerships with key stakeholders by efficiently coordinating partnership activities including legal assistance and community legal education activities.
• Implement, coordinate and monitor an enhanced intake and triage model to ensure streamlined access to legal assistance and information capture for clients referred by partner agencies.
• Coordinate and facilitate NCLC project casework meetings to promote collaboration and integration of NCLC legal and non-legal assistance to priority clients
• Participate in developing and monitoring project plans to ensure funding requirements and performance indicators are met.
• Apply monitoring and evaluation frameworks and implement data collection tools to ensure that project outcomes and impact can be demonstrated.
• Coordinate and provide support to the project advisory committees and other stakeholder engagement meetings.
• Coordinate capacity building and professional development activities delivered to staff of referring partner agencies to enhance their capacity to identify legal issues and provide timely referrals.
• Maintain data systems to identify systemic barriers impacting upon access to justice to inform NCLC’s advocacy and policy/law reform platform.
• With support from the Policy and Evaluation Officer, prepare final project reports that summarise the project outcomes, barriers, policy/law reform issues identified and recommendations for future service delivery.
• Work in collaboration with the Project teams to promote each project and NCLC services more generally.
• Carry out other duties, as consistent with the role.

about you

You will have a Bachelor of Arts, Social Work, Law or equivalent qualification or experience with demonstrated experience and skills in project coordination including project development, implementation and evaluation.

You will have excellent interpersonal, collaboration and negotiation skills and the ability to form strong working relationships with key stakeholders, excellent written communication skills with a high attention to detail, including report writing skills.

Further information can be found in the attached position description.For further information, please contact Tania McKenna, Partnerships & Community Development Manager on 03 9310 4376.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received.

NCLC is committed to providing a working environment that is flexible, friendly, collaborative, positive and supports team members to achieve a work/life balance.

We offer generous salary packaging; flexible work arrangements to support employees with work-life balance; 5 weeks annual leave; Christmas and New Year shut-down leave; access to an Employee Assistance Program and learning and development opportunities.

NCLC is committed to building a diverse workforce and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people from culturally and racially marginalised and refugee backgrounds, people of all ages, neurodiverse people, gender diverse people and LGBTIQA+ people. We welcome applications from people with a diversity of backgrounds and experience, including lived experience of the issues we work on.

A position description is attached.