About Justice Connect

In the face of rising levels of unmet legal need, Justice Connect designs and delivers high impact interventions to increase access to legal support and progress social justice. At Justice Connect, we believe in a fair and just world, where people and communities are supported to engage with and fully participate in our legal and social systems and avoid the negative impacts on their wellbeing or organisational health that flow from unresolved legal problems.

From preventing homelessness and providing legal support to disaster-affected communities, to helping not-for-profit organisations navigate complex regulatory requirements, we work across different areas of law through our multi-channel and multi-intensity legal services and network of 10,000 pro bono lawyers.

Our Team

Justice Connect’s Seniors Law has provided specialist legal help to older people for over 15 years. Through a Health Justice Partnership (HJP) model, our lawyers across Victoria and New South Wales work closely with health professionals to identify older people who are experiencing or at risk of abuse and refer them to our services for specialist support.

Our lawyers use a range of interventions and provide holistic and specialist support to address both legal and non-legal causes and consequences of elder abuse. We work to prevent the escalation of legal problems and family conflict; and, ultimately, promote the economic security and independence of older people, as well as their control in decision-making and choice in care.

Our ideal candidate

You'll bring to the team experience in the following areas:

• Tertiary qualification in law.
• Experience delivering legal services to clients who have complex vulnerabilities.
• Experience engaging and managing relationships with stakeholders, and possession of high-level communication skills and good judgement.
• Experience assisting with the design, development and delivery of projects, including monitoring of key timeframes and tasks, as well as collaborating with management regarding budgets.
• Demonstrated capacity to think creatively, and to leverage technology to improve scale, systems, processes and practices.

Expertise that you may have that would support our team:

• Hold an unrestricted practising certificate.
• Candidates will need to demonstrate commitment to Justice Connect's vision, strategy and values.

What you will achieve in the role

In this role, you’ll work to:

• Develop resources and deliver education promoting the legal rights of older people tailored for health and community sector professionals, pro bono lawyers and community members.
• Oversee the continuation of Seniors Law’s evidence-based future planning project, including by promoting the use of our ‘Conversation Guides’ with health & community partners and older people across Victoria.
• Utilising the Conversation Guides, deliver tailored workshops to groups of older people to facilitate discussion about future decisions and getting older.
• Work with Seniors Law’s Manager and Justice Connect’s pro bono member firms to implement and enhance our innovative ‘pro bono referral clinics’, which prioritise older people on a low income seeking to access a free service to execute future planning documents.
• Contribute to the implementation of Seniors Law’s current program-level strategy, including opportunities to leverage technology, improve efficiency, and scale our services to prevent and better respond to financial elder abuse.

A week in this role

If you were here last week, you would have:

• Attended a weekly staff meeting, facilitating a community workshop on the Conversation Guide
• Liaising with pro bono member firms to held a pro bono clinic
• Developed resources with the Engagement team to promote the future planning project,
• Catch up with Seniors Law Manager to brainstorm ideas for the project,
• Drafted a briefing paper to funders on the current impact of the future planning project for external engagement

What we offer

If you want your next role to have purpose, support you to master new skills and build meaningful relationships then Justice Connect is the place to work.

We believe in creating an environment where people will thrive, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Progressive leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements with a minimum of 40% in the workplace attendance across the month
• Access to EAP
• New hire and ongoing learning and development

Important role information

The position reports to Manager of the Seniors Law program

Employment is part time (0.6 hours per week) fixed term until 30 June 2027.

The salary for this role is $102,900.68 per annum (pro rata) (plus 11.5% superannuation) with annual leave loading and generous salary packaging options.

This role can be based at our Melbourne offices with 40% of the month in the workplace with hybrid working arrangements.

How to Apply

Please click "Apply Now" and upload your resume and a cover letter which outlines your skills and experience that will help you achieve success in this role.

For further information contact Linh Le Hume 02 8599 2116.