- Permanent role, full time or part time;
- Salary and benefits: $107,920.02 - $128,084.03 (pro rata for part time) depending on qualifications and experience.
Our Financial Abuse Service is an innovative and dynamic statewide practice with a specialist, cross-jurisdictional, and integrated approach that provides holistic legal and non-legal support to clients, increasing their safety and wellbeing and leading to financial independence and empowerment. We also drive systemic change through test cases, advocacy and law reform.
The family lawyer will work collaboratively with financial counsellors, social workers and other specialist lawyers (consumer credit, corporations law, tax law and immigration law) to assist clients from across New South Wales. This role has ongoing opportunities to contribute to the development of systemic advocacy, policy and law reform to both address the causes of financial and
economic abuse and improve outcomes for victim survivors.
This role will provide trauma informed legal advice, representation and referrals to victim survivors of financial abuse in the area of family law, with a focus on property settlement, spousal maintenance and child support. There may also be opportunities to identify and work on test cases and coordinate and supervise volunteer solicitors.
Redfern Legal Centre is a non-profit community legal centre that promotes social justice and creates change. We provide free legal advice, legal services and education to people experiencing disadvantage in New South Wales. We drive innovation and work to address inequalities in the legal system through policy and law reform. We provide effective and integrated free legal services that are client focussed, collaborative, non-discriminatory and responsive to changing community needs - to our local community as well as state-wide.
Position Responsibilities
Provide trauma informed advice, representation and referrals in family law, according to the centre’s eligibility criteria. Representation includes support to self-represented litigants who are unable to obtain legal representation elsewhere and representation for people seeking resolution outside of court.
Identify and undertake strategic litigation with pro bono support.
Identify systemic legal and policy issues and contribute to policy and law reform.
Provide community legal education with an emphasis on areas of frequent inquiry, perceived need and recent innovation.
Work with community, government, professional and media organisations on relevant issues including through attendance at stakeholder events and sector meetings.
Contribute to Redfern Legal Centre through attendance at staff meetings, contribution to board and funding reports, assistance with intake including intake supervision shifts, and contribution to the effective implementation of our Reconciliation Action Plan.
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential
Qualified to practice as a solicitor in NSW and eligible to hold a current practicing certificate with at least two years relevant post admission experience.
Demonstrated experience providing legal advice and representation in complex family law property settlement cases, child support and spousal maintenance.
Demonstrated understanding of the family law issues faced by people experiencing financial abuse, and the intersection with other areas of law, including company law, tax law, immigration law, and credit, debt and consumer law.
Experience working with First Nations clients and/or culturally and linguistically diverse clients, and a commitment to culturally safe practice.
Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information in a practical, accurate and accessible way to clients in stressful and emotionally charged situations, and to engage professionally with interpreters, government and other support services.
Desirable
At least five years post admission experience and/or recognition as an Accredited Specialist in Family Law.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team.
Experience supervising casework of staff and/or volunteers.
Experience conducting law reform, policy work, campaigns, community legal education or strategic litigation.
Conditions
Salary and benefits: $107,920.02 - $128,084.03 p.a. (pro rata for part time) depending on qualifications and experience.
Superannuation and annual leave loading are paid in addition and salary packaging is available.
In addition to being a flexible workplace, Redfern Legal Centre offers a 35-hour working week, time in lieu options and a paid end of year closure of two weeks (including public holidays) on top of four weeks annual leave.
As a Public Benevolent Institution, Redfern Legal Centre is able to offer staff generous salary packaging options.
The closing date for applications is Monday 7 April 2025 at 9am.
Redfern Legal Centre is a diverse and inclusive workplace that offers flexible working conditions and supports wellbeing. We require staff to be fully vaccinated for Covid-19. We strongly encourage applications by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people and people with disability.
Your application should be no more than six pages and must include:
a cover letter;
your resume; and
a statement addressing the Essential Knowledge Skills and Experience Criteria in the position description
Please apply here.
Enquiries should be directed to Catherine Hewett, catherine@rlc.org.au.
