Legal Officer V, Training And Education Officer – Family Law

• Ongoing - Full Time – 35 hours per week
• Legal Officer V (between $144,140 - $146,966 plus super and annual leave loading)
• Family Law division

About us

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas criminal law, Family Law and every day civil law legal issues. We give legal advice, help at court and do family dispute resolution. We can do this over the telephone or at one of our 28 offices.

About the role

This role will provide and coordinate comprehensive staff development and training support to legal staff primarily in the Family Law Division including the continuing legal education program. This role also consults broadly with Legal Officers and managers about the training needs of those doing legal work primarily in the Family Law Division.

About you

You will be a creative and robust thinker who can use your knowledge and experience in Family Law to coordinate the development, implementation, and delivery of Training and Education programs (such as Continuing Professional Development Training sessions, online practice manual, conferences, webinars, podcasts). You will be a capable collaborator who can work autonomously to plan and facilitate meetings to discuss training needs across a large and complex practice area. 

You will also have strong communication and negotiation skills (both written and verbal) to liaise effectively with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring training sessions/programs are of a high quality and accessible. You are self-motivated to remain up-to-date with the developments in Family Law, care and protection law, and procedure, ensuring those developments are effectively communicated to staff and panel practitioners. 

We may use this recruitment to create a talent pool for similar ongoing or temporary vacancies we have over the next 18 months.

WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW!

We are committed to diversity and inclusion

We are cmmitted to creating a culturally safe and genuinely inclusive organisation and workplace for everyone who works and interacts with us. We strive to be a place where people from diverse backgrounds want to work, where voices and cultures are valued and where people feel valued, welcomed, respected and heard. 

We want a workforce that reflects our clients, so we can deliver a service that meets the needs of the community. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds — including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, the LGBTQI+ community, culturally diverse people and other diverse communities. 

We acknowledge, support and accommodate the diverse access needs of people with visible and invisible disabilities. If you need an adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, or you’d like information about what we can do to help you, please contact our team at erecruitment@legalaid.nsw.gov.au.

Other benefits of working with us

• You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.
• We are an accredited Flex Ready certified employer and are recognised as leaders in the area of flexible work. Most of our staff work flexibly — for example, from home some of the time or in a way that helps them balance family and work life.

The essential requirements for this role

You must:

• be willing to do a Criminal Record Check and/or Working with Children Check
• hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies) or a valid visa to work in Australia (for temporary vacancies)
• Must hold valid NSW drivers license and some roles may require the ability for remote travel.

The Family Law Division have a number of roles where it is a statutory obligation for staff to hold a valid Working With Children Check. You will be required to provide your Working With Children Check details prior to commencement in any role requiring the check.

How to apply

You MUST submit your application online through www.iworkfor.nsw.gov.au. If you submit your application late or by email it will NOT be accepted. 

Your application must include:

• your resume (no more than 5 pages)
• cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please address the following two target statements:

1. Outline your skills and experience in facilitating the meeting of training needs across a large and complex practice area.
2. Tell us about a time you have developed, coordinated, and delivered training to legal practitioners or other groups of professionals.

Make sure your application is complete and you have answered all questions before you submit it.

Do you need help to apply?

It’s important to properly prepare before you apply for a role. Here is some other information to help you: 

• If you have questions about the role, you can contact the Hiring Manager – Pia Birac on 1800 979 529 or email: pia.birac@legalaid.nsw.gov.au. 
• If you are an Australian Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and are thinking about applying, you can contact the Aboriginal Services Branch to arrange a confidential conversation about any questions you may have.
• The Role Description sets out the responsibilities of the role.
• The focus capabilities and key accountabilities in the role description indicate what is expected at that level. Being familiar with these will help you understand what the panel will be looking for in the successful candidate. 
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