Job Summary
- $123,625 - $157,340
- Applications close:
- Job posted on: 14th Aug 2024
- Melbourne > Melbourne CBD
2 days left to apply
Victoria Legal Aid (VLA) is thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity to launch our new Remand Support and Advocacy Service at Melbourne's Bail and Remand Court (BARC). We are seeking an innovative leader with a strong social justice background to lead this pilot program.
The new service seeks to address the non-legal needs of individuals facing their first remand, including understanding their rights and the legal process, supporting access to services. You will collaborate with a dedicated team and a Senior Lived Experience Consultant, bringing expertise in social work, criminal justice, and advocacy. To gain deeper insights into our remand services Remand Review: The vital importance of remand services | Victoria Legal Aid.
As Manager, you will work closely with VLA's summary crime project, including a lived experience consultant and senior leadership to shape service design and strategies. This will include improving team capabilities for advocacy, fostering relationships with stakeholders like Court Services Victoria and Aboriginal Legal Services, and integrating lived experience into service delivery across VLA's advocacy initiatives. This role also requires on-call availability to ensure the seamless operation and success of this transformative initiative.
This role is based at our Melbourne CBD office on Wurundjeri Country.
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1000 staff employed in 15 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.
Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.
To be considered for this role, please submit a current resume and completed candidate application form (listed within the file attachments), via the Apply Now link.
If you require workable adjustment to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team, using the subject line: Manager - Remand Support and Advocacy Service (RSAS) enquiry via EthicalJobs.
For further information review the attached position description or contact Tamsin Mildenhall, Summary Crime Associate Director on (03) 9269 0447.
No agency applications will be accepted.
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.
VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.
Applications for this role will take you to the employer’s site.
2 days left to apply