Women’s Legal Service WA is a not for profit community legal centre funded to provide free legal services for women in Western Australia. We work to redress inequalities in the legal system that adversely and disproportionately affect women living with disadvantage by providing quality information and expert assistance in family law, child protection and compensation for criminal injuries matters. We focus on victims and survivors of family and domestic violence. Our high performing team does this in collaboration with our sector partners.

WLSWA is looking for an experienced and passionate person to manage an exciting new Project, Making Legal Systems Safer for Women.

The successful applicant will have significant sector knowledge, including in the areas of service delivery and strategic reform. The ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively will be essential.

This is a leadership position within the WLSWA team and qualified people committed to working to ensuring best outcomes for women in the legal system are encouraged to apply.

The Project Manager will build the capabilities of the community legal service and stakeholder systems through,

• Developing and implementing risk screening practices to promote cross-sector safety and accountability
• Supporting lawyers and other CLC staff to implement approaches that address the risks of family and domestic violence
• Mapping women and children’s pathway through the family violence and legal systems
• Enhancing a multi-agency perspective and understanding of her pathway through these systems
• Elevating the pivotal role CLCs can play in systematically gathering and sharing information that makes the risk to the victim visible in the system.

Whilst this position is full-time, there is also provision to configure a part-time arrangement with the successful applicant. Some outreach, including regional travel, will be required.

In addition to the opportunity to join a great team, we offer flexible working conditions, employee assistance program, opportunity to salary sacrifice, and additional paid leave between Christmas and new year.

For a confidential discussion about the position, please contact Dr Jennie Gray on 0427 017 467.

A position description is attached.