AddressClassification: Level 4, full time (35 hours per week) Remuneration: $82 045 per annum plus super and attractive salary packaging options Type: contract for nine months or part-time contract for 12 months
An opportunity to make a difference
Caxton Legal Centre provides legal assistance and social work supports to promote and protect the Human Rights of people who experience financial and other disadvantage. All our lawyers work hand in hand with our social workers within a human-rights practice framework and apply the Human Rights Act 2019 (Qld) to help clients realise their rights. Caxton provides challenging work for lawyers passionate about social justice in a highly supportive environment that produces favourable outcomes as a team.
We are seeking a lawyer to work in our Human Rights and Civil Law Practice. The ideal candidate would possess community legal centre or similar experience. This is a primarily community legal education position relating to employment law, with a focus on discrimination and sexual harassment matters.
Key accountabilities
Essential requirements
Why Caxton Community Legal Centre
Caxton Legal Centre has played a central part in Queensland’s legal landscape over the past 40 years, leading the state’s first Stolen Wages case, successfully representing well over 100 victims of the 2011 floods, and paving the way for multidisciplinary service delivery to people experiencing elder abuse.
We are an engaged, passionate and talented group of lawyers, social workers and administrative staff with whom you are encouraged to collaborate and learn from in order to meet our clients’ needs.
Our full-time staff enjoy a 35-hour working week paid at the full-time award rate, with time off in lieu if additional approved hours are worked. Paid Christmas leave is provided during the office shut-down period to New Years in addition to four weeks paid annual leave.
For more information about the role please refer to the position description. If you are interested in joining a team that is highly committed to social justice and values diversity and Human Rights, please submit your cover letter addressing the key accountabilities and essential requirements along with your CV to Damian Kelleher, COO at damian.kelleher@caxton. org.au
Due to the high volume of applications, only those successful in gaining an interview will be contacted.
