• Bring your project management skills to our collaborative, feminist legal service
• Located in Melbourne's legal precinct, with public transport on your doorstep
• Hybrid working model (part in office/working from home), promoting a true work/life balance
• Full time or part time (min 4 days)
• A welcoming, passionate, and motivated workforce all committed to building a gender equitable society

Gender Specific Role

Women’s Legal Service Victoria relies upon an exception under the Equal Opportunity Act to employ women only.

About Womens Legal Service Victoria

Women’s Legal Service Victoria is a specialised and state-wide organisation providing services and support to women since 1982. We exist to help build a gender equitable society, driving systemic change and advocating for solutions for equality, safety and economic security. We are committed to working alongside women experiencing disadvantage to promote their rights to live free from violence. We use our experience to inform our policy, law reform and education work.

Women’s Legal provides legal services within a multi-disciplinary and trauma-informed practice in the areas of family law, family violence, victims of crime, migration and child protection. Our model incorporates social work and financial counselling to provide wrap-around support to our clients.

Our culture

We are committed to our vision of building a gender equitable society.

• We are passionate, collaborative, and solution-focused
• We work alongside women experiencing disadvantage, to promote their rights to live free from violence, and make informed choices about their lives
• We work in a way that is woman-focused, engaging and supporting the whole person and appreciating the complexity of her situation

Your new role

Reporting to the Director of Education and Engagement, you will provide high quality project management expertise to deliver the Family Law Capacity Building Project. The Project provides best practice training and capacity building activities to community lawyers to develop their family violence and family law legal skills, and to support with the establishment and strengthening of family law legal practices in community legal services.

You will also provide strategic guidance in project management methodologies and develop project management tools and templates to support project management capacity in the Education and Engagement Program, and to embed consistent project management practices across WLSV.

Role responsibilities include:

• Develop and implement a project plan for the Family Law Capacity Building Project and other relevant projects
• Work collaboratively with other members of the Education and Engagement Program and colleagues (with expertise in communications, data, monitoring and evaluation) to deliver the Family Law Capacity Building Project
• Collaborate with partner organisations to deliver the Family Law Capacity Building Project that meets the needs of community lawyers assisting women experiencing family violence and relationship breakdown
• Work alongside the Director of Education and Engagement to maintain the relationship with the current project funders and to ensure funder requirements are being met
• Provide project management expertise and strategic guidance to support project management capability across the Education and Engagement Program, and the broader organisation

This is a full time or part time (minimum 4 days) position, fixed term until 30th June 2025.

What you'll need to succeed

To succeed in this role, you will need:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• Experience working in the legal assistance or community sector
• Advanced project management skills, and experience managing projects preferably in the legal or community sector
• Demonstrated experience implementing collaborative initiatives enabled by high level stakeholder engagement skills, and the proven ability to work effectively with a range of people to negotiate differing needs and expectations
• Experience using qualitative and quantitative data to monitor project delivery, identify risks to successfully deliver project activities, and to demonstrate impact
• High level oral and written communication skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate and foster constructive relationships with staff, external stakeholders and organisations
• Experience and/or ability to mentor and support other colleagues in project management methodologies and embedding of project management strategies and tools
• Experience delivering projects with a focus on working with experiencing family violence and providing trauma-informed legal assistance (desirable)

What you’ll get in return

The support of a genuine, motivated, passionate workforce, all driven helping to build a gender equitable country.

We offer bonus leave days to support a well-rested end of year break (up to 8 bonus leave days) outside of annual leave, competitive remuneration, a strong commitment to your professional development, personal development and mental health, a very flexible working environment that supports work-life balance, hybrid working, salary packaging (which can add up to $15,900 in tax-free pay per year) and a vibrant and collegiate work culture.

Equal opportunity and diversity

WLSV is committed to equal opportunity and diversity and promotes an organisational environment where individuals are treated with fairness, respect, equality and dignity. To deliver the best outcomes for our clients we want a staff team that reflects the diverse community that we serve, recognising the skills, knowledge and experience a diverse staff group brings to our organisation.

To apply

Please submit a covering letter addressing how your background and qualifications make you the right candidate for this role, along with your resume.

A full position description is available below.

For any other enquiries, please email Lauren Wellington, People and Culture Manager at [email protected] using the subject line: Project Manager - Family Law Capacity Building enquiry via EthicalJobs.

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