Senior Lawyer- Innovation

You’ll bring to the team experience in the following areas:

• Experience supervising intake, triage, and provision of legal assistance.
• A demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement of legal service delivery and taking a client-centred approach to development of responses to unmet legal need.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to successfully build and maintain key relationships, including with sector collaborators and internal stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate flexibility and agility with openness to pivoting as organisational priorities change.
• (Desirable) Post-admission experience in one or more of the relevant areas of civil law, including credit and debt, tenancy matters, and/or general contractual disputes.

Expertise that you may have that would support our team:

• Bachelor of Laws / Juris Doctor,
• Current unrestricted practicing certificate with a minimum of 4 years post-admission experience.

Candidates will need to demonstrate commitment to Justice Connect’s vision, strategy and values.

What you will achieve in the role

In this role, you’ll work to

•  Deliver a strong legal practice with a particular focus on improving the Justice Connect Answers legal practice and use of the platform.
• Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships to maintain confidence in our legal services, innovative approaches, and to underpin service delivery collaboration.
• Identify risks and issues impacting stakeholder relationships, service delivery and projects.
• Embed Justice Connect’s values in the work of the team, share knowledge, and provide leadership focused on delivering Justice Connect strategy, including the use of databased decision making in legal practice and use of technology products.

A week in this role

If you were here last week, you would have:

• Participated in a meeting with a key stakeholder about use of digital platforms to better provide legal services
• Engaged with a key stakeholder on insights from analysis of our end of quarter service delivery data to determine what steps we could take to further improve our services to meet project objectives
• Discussed legal advice provided by our pro bono firms as part of Justice Connect Answers
• Collaborated with a colleague to deliver a one-hour referrals workshop with a key referrer to surface any pain points and opportunities to streamline the referral process
• Collaborated with a pro bono firm to develop and draft a new self-help resource in response to an emerging legal need
• Met with the Access Program leadership to review service data and staff insights to support decision making on how to further improve our processes
• Attended a team meeting to celebrate successes, provide updates and confirm the focus of project activities for the upcoming fortnight

What we offer

If you want your next role to have purpose, support you to master new skills and build meaningful relationships then Justice Connect is the place to work.

We believe in creating an environment where people will thrive, we offer a range of benefits including:

• Progressive leave entitlements
• Flexible working arrangements with a minimum of 40% in the workplace attendance across the month
• Access to EAP
• New hire and ongoing learning and development