• 18-month contract, full-time or part-time role.
• Salary: $94,344.82 - $128,084 p.a. (pro rata for part-time) depending on qualifications and experience.

Our Financial Abuse Service is an innovative and dynamic statewide practice with a specialist, cross-jurisdictional, and integrated approach that provides holistic legal and non-legal support to clients, increasing their safety and wellbeing and leading to financial independence and empowerment.

We provide specialist financial abuse legal assistance in the areas of credit, debt and consumer law, family law, company and tax law, and immigration law, as well as financial counsellors and social workers.

We also drive systemic change through test cases, advocacy, and law reform.

This includes coordinating the Economic Abuse Reference Group (EARG), a network of over 50 Australian community organisations that share expertise with government and industry to improve laws, policies, and business practices and reduce the financial impact of domestic and family violence.

The Policy Officer is a lawyer who undertakes systemic advocacy, policy, law reform, and capacity-building work for the Financial Abuse Service and the Economic Abuse Reference Group to address the causes of financial and economic abuse and improve outcomes for victim survivors.

The Policy Officer is supervised and mentored by the Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer.

Redfern Legal Centre is a non-profit community legal centre that promotes social justice and creates change.

We provide free legal advice, legal services, and education to people experiencing disadvantage in New South Wales.

We drive innovation and work to address inequalities in the legal system through policy and law reform.

We provide effective and integrated free legal services that are client-focused, collaborative, non-discriminatory, and responsive to changing community needs – to our local community as well as state-wide.

Enquiries should be directed to Catherine Hewett, [email protected], using the subject line: Policy Officer enquiry via EthicalJobs. 

A position description is attached.

Redfern Legal Centre is a diverse and inclusive workplace that offers flexible working conditions and supports wellbeing.

We require staff to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities.