Legal Assistant

• Full time ongoing position (part time considered)
• Salary based on experience, range: $59,877 - $75,668 (pro rata) plus super
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model

About the role:
We are seeking an engaged and motivated Legal Assistant to join our team making a difference in East Gippsland. This role will suit candidates who enjoy the day-to-day challenges of working within a fast-paced environment.
Reporting to the Administrative Services Manager, you'll be part of a team of Legal Assistants providing a broad range of legal administration support to our lawyers and the Gippsland offices including word processing, data entry, file management and reception services. You will also support our legal aid clients with general enquiries and work with external legal practitioners and community legal centres to ensure our clients' needs are met.
This role is based at our Bairnsdale office on Gunaikurnai Country.

About you:
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• An interest in the social justice sector, and can adapt to changing work environments, clients, different practice areas of law, and office locations.
• Experience in providing administrative support, ideally within a legal environment, and/or the ability to provide client focused services in a complex, confidential and sensitive environment.
• Strong organisational, problem solving and decision-making skills with the ability to prioritise workloads, meet timelines and work under pressure to ensure efficient and effective delivery of VLA services.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. You can connect with people from different backgrounds and cultures and explain complex legal matters so that people can understand and choose their way forward.
• Ability to effectively work with corporate colleagues, lawyers and barristers and external stakeholders and organisations.

Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.

About Victoria Legal Aid:
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1000 staff employed in 15 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.

Employee benefits:

• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing

How to apply:
To be considered for this role, please submit a current resume.

If you require adjustment to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team.

For further information review the attached position description or contact Jaslyn Webb, Administrative Services Manager on (03) 5126 6***.

No agency applications will be accepted.

Applications close by 11.59pm on Tuesday 6 February.

Other relevant information:
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.

VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.