Organisation : ARC Justice
Location : VIC Regional, Victoria (Bendigo)
Work type : Part-time
Sector : Law, Justice & Human Rights
Salary type : Annual Package
Application closing date : 29 Mar, 2017
About the organisation
ARC Justice is a leading and innovative advocacy and rights organisation that delivers client focused services that empower disadvantaged and vulnerable people in rural and regional Victoria. We elevate justice as an issue in public discourse and advocate for systemic change that upholds human rights. We are a leader that strengthens the sector, pursuing best practice and innovation through collaboration.
About the role
A program of Advocacy & Rights Centre Ltd (trading as ARC Justice)
ABN 23 082 541 240, 54 Mitchell Street, Bendigo, 3550
Re-Advertised (Previous applicants need not apply)
EFT, until March 2020 -(with flexibility for 0.8EFT)
‘Tipping the Scales’
A project Funded by the Victorian Legal Services Board
Are you a mature and dynamic project worker or lawyer, passionate about social justice and want to work in one of Victoria’s most culturally vibrant and beautiful regional areas?
The Bendigo based Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre (a division of Advocacy & Rights Centre Ltd, T/A – ARC Justice) delivers a range of legal assistance services (casework, education and policy) across North and Central Victoria, including the Goulburn Valley.
The incumbent will work alongside a designated lawyer and in collaboration with community to deliver the “Tipping the Scales” Project. Using community development principles they will work with community and project partners to develop, co-ordinate, support and deliver the project aims, deliverables and common agenda. The incumbent will work collaboratively with the project lawyer in developing and leading the three year project including project design, management, evaluation, collaboration, co-ordination, community legal education, policy work and evaluation.
The principle project partner in the “Tipping the Scales” Project is the Go Goldfields Alliance and particularly their Family Violence Action Group and Expert Reference Group made up of women with lived experience of family violence. More information including the Go Goldfields Family Violence Action Plan can be found here and on request http://gogoldfields.org/family-violence/ .
How to apply
Applications not allowed for this job listing.
Please quote in application: Project and Community Development Worker via Pro Bono Australia.
Sector: #Law_Justice_and_Human_Rights