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Organisation : Youth Law Australia

Location : Adelaide, Brisbane, QLD Regional, SA Regional

Work type : Full-time

Sector : Children, Law, Justice & Human Rights

Salary type : Annual Package

Salary : • Package: $90,00 - $105,000 p.a. (pro rata) + 9.5% Superannuation + Leave Loading + FBT Salary Packaging available.

Application closing date : 8 Nov, 2020

About the organisation

Organisation Name : Youth Law Australia

YLA is a specialist children’s and youth Community Legal Centre (CLC). We provide high quality, free and confidential legal assistance services to children, young people and their advocates nationally in all areas of the law. 

YLA aims to enhance children and young people’s access to and engagement with: their legal rights; assistance to exercise these rights; and to remedies when these rights are violated. YLA’s objective is to fulfill these aims by providing appropriate and targeted legal information, advice, education, representation and advocacy.

Pursuing these objectives YLA provides:

  • YLA website, the leading community legal information resource for young Australians. The site is an accessible, 24/7 pathway to legal information and assistance: yla.org.au;
  • Get help now, the free, confidential legal information, advice and assistance service for all young Australians. Get help now is a clear and timely “next step" for help-seekers on the website: www.lawmail.org.au; and
  • TeachLaw, a new community legal education resource for teachers and schools across Australia: teachlaw.org.au.

Based at UNSW Law, YLA is an accredited community legal centre and holds specialist consultative status (children’s rights) with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

About the role

SUMMARY

  • Must have or soon will have at least 3 years post-admission experience within Australia. Experience in Queensland and/or South Australia highly desirable.
  • Will play a significant role in access to justice for children and young people.
  • Work remotely from Queensland or South Australia.
  • Fixed- term contract to 30 June 2021 with possibility of extension.
  • Full-time (38 hours per week) – will consider flexibility, secondment, part-time and/or job-share.
  • Package: $90,00 – $105,000 p.a. (pro rata) + 9.5% Superannuation + Leave Loading + FBT Salary Packaging available.

ABOUT THE ROLE

YLA is an accessible, technology-enabled and highly collaborative service that specialises in preventing and intervening early in young people’s legal problems and connecting young people with legal solutions.

YLA’s civil and administrative law practice is our largest practice area. We also receive a range of family and criminal law enquiries. We have seen a significant rise in demand for our services during the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, the Australian Government has provided additional funding to enhance legal services. Queensland Attorney-General, Yvette D’Ath MP, and South Australian Attorney-General, Vickie Chapman MP, have kindly used some of their allocated funding for this role.

The Solicitor will report to and work under the supervision of YLA’s Principal Solicitor and will work closely with YLA’s Director, fellow solicitors, pro bono solicitors, law student volunteers, interns and trainees to provide online and phone-based legal information, advice and assistance. Because YLA’s practice is paperless and delivered via YLA’s bespoke technology platform, collaboration, support and supervision occurs within an Australia-wide online network of lawyers and law student volunteers.

We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples for all positions.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Provide timely and accurate legal information, advice and assistance in a range of civil, administrative, criminal, and family law contexts.
  • Support the delivery and supervision of quality legal work experience for a team of UNSW PLT and other law student volunteers and interns.
  • Help ensure YLA’s legal practice and risk management requirements are met and records are properly maintained.
  • Assist with reporting to funding bodies, partners and the Board.
  • Assist in the development of YLA’s online legal resources.
  • Assist in maintaining and developing relationships with pro bono providers, legal centres, youth organisations, referral agencies and other professional bodies.
  • Undertake general administrative duties.
  • Such other work as the Board or Management Team may reasonably require.

SELECTION CRITERIA
Essential criteria

  • Must have, or be eligible for, an unrestricted practicing certificate in an Australian jurisdiction and have, or soon have, 3 years of post-admission experience within Australia.
  • Demonstrated experience in providing legal advice and casework in family violence matters and civil and administrative law practice areas relevant to community legal or legal aid services.
  • Demonstrated understanding, or the capacity to acquire understanding, in providing legal advice and casework in criminal and family law practice areas relevant to community legal or legal aid services.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills with people from diverse backgrounds, including client interviewing and advising.
  • Demonstrated ability to draft legal information and advice using plain language.
  • Demonstrated attention to detail and accuracy, including sound legal research and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to set priorities, organise and manage own workloads, meet deadlines and work without close supervision.
  • Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with internal and external stakeholders.

Desirable criteria

  • Experience providing legal advice in Queensland and/or South Australia, or demonstrated ability to learn quickly and effectively.
  • Knowledge of community resources and organisations (legal and non-legal) relevant to the needs of children and young people in Queensland and/or South Australia.
  • Experience providing legal advice and/or casework in one or more of family/domestic violence law; education law; employment law; anti-discrimination law; consumer, credit and debt law; social security law; fines law; traffic law; and children’s law.
  • Ability to support, supervise and train junior lawyers and student volunteers, interns and practical legal trainees.
  • Experience using online practice management systems.

How to apply

Position Description : Job Solicitor –QLD and SA

Applications not allowed for this job listing.

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Please quote in application: Solicitor for QLD and SA via Pro Bono Australia.


Profession: #Legal
Sector: #Children, #Law_Justice_and_Human_Rights
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