• Full time maximum term newly created position up to June 2027
• Salary range: $123,625 - $157,340 (pro rata) plus super plus salary packaging
• Attractive salary packaging up to $15,900 and hybrid WFH & office model

About the role:

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.

About you:

As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Exceptional leadership skills and demonstrated success in change management, particularly in designing and implementing new services.
• Adaptability to dynamic environments and a creative problem-solving approach.
• Strong ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including justice agencies and Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations.
• Dedication to integrating lived experience perspectives into service design, collaborating with a Lived Experience Consultant and advisory group.
• Comprehensive understanding of the justice system, human rights frameworks, and challenges faced by individuals in remand or custody.
• Demonstrated capability to drive organisational change and support team adaptation in a supportive environment.
• Management experience in social work, criminal justice, community development, advocacy, service provision or other similar fields (mandatory)

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.

About Victoria Legal Aid:

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.

Employee benefits:

• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements.
• Hybrid work from home & office model.
• Training and professional development opportunities.
• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing.
• Opportunity to join Myki Commuter Club (and salary package the cost).
• Supportive team environment in modern offices (including free gym and end-of-trip facilities at our CBD office)
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance.

How to apply:

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.

Other relevant information:

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.