Work with us! The Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) is expanding and are now advertising two new opportunities to join our team.
Principal Lawyer
TEWLS seeks a Principal Lawyer (5 years PAE+) to join our vibrant and expanding team and help achieve our vision – a community in which women enjoy and are entitled to legal and social justice.
- Competitive remuneration package (SCHADS Level 7.1 $100,260.16 – 8.3 $113,062.56), including 10% superannuation, salary sacrifice and six (6) weeks’ annual leave with leave loading
- Permanent, full-time preferred position
- No billable targets, sustainable caseloads, and a supportive environment dedicated to developing employee wellbeing and resilience
- The opportunity to use your legal skills to address gender inequity and support vulnerable women in the community
- An energised, passionate, and high-achieving team
ABOUT TEWLS
TEWLS is a community legal centre providing legal services for all women and persons identifying as women in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Based in beautiful Darwin, TEWLS provides high quality, holistic, trauma-informed and culturally secure legal advice, casework and representation, community legal education, and advocacy in the areas of civil, family and migration law. As a front-line women’s service, the majority of TEWLS’ clients present having experienced or experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence.
TEWLS provides a vital role for women in the Top End. At an individual level, the service responds to and facilitates women’s experiences and realities, with specialist and responsive legal services. At a systemic level, clients’ collective experiences establish a salient foundation and platform for informed service advocacy and calls for systemic improvement and change.
In 2022 and as a result of service expansion, a new executive structure has been approved by the TEWLS Management Committee to optimize client service impact, and support growth and sustainability – a Chief Executive Officer and Principal Lawyer.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Forming part of our specialist women’s practice, and in consultation and collaboration with the TEWLS Chief Executive Officer, the Principal Lawyer will lead and operate TEWLS’ legal practice in line with the service’s Strategic Plan, providing a leadership and coordination role in the provision of legal services in the areas of family and civil law. The Principal Lawyer will also lead the service’s community engagement building, community legal education (CLE) and policy and law reform activities.
The Principal Lawyer will demonstrate integrity, clear communication, long term and sustainable thinking, and initiative to direct the work of the legal practice, giving direction and leadership that is strategic, reasoned, and boundaried, in collaboration with the TEWLS Chief Executive Officer. The Principal Lawyer will further drive the development and expansion of the legal practice in line with the service’s strategic goals, while monitoring the practice’s performance against TEWLS’ strategic objectives and funding requirements.
Notably, TEWLS’ specialist practice provides meaningful, varied, interesting, and complex legal work, within a supportive and trauma-informed environment.
If you are looking for a unique opportunity to use your legal skillset while leading a passionate team in the breath-taking tropics, this role is for you!
TO APPLY
Applications for the position must be submitted by 11:59pm Sunday 19 June 2022.
Applicants for this position must address the selection criteria, found within the position description here. Applications are to be submitted by email to cweatherbyfell@tewls.org.au.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Caitlin Weatherby-Fell, Acting Managing Solicitor on (08) 8982 3000.
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Client Support Officer
TEWLS seeks a Client Support Officer to join our vibrant and expanding team and help achieve our vision – a community in which women enjoy and are entitled to legal and social justice.
- Competitive remuneration package (SCHADS Level 2.1 $57,532.28 – 3.4 $68,953.04), including 10% superannuation, salary sacrifice and six (6) weeks’ annual leave with leave loading
- Contract, full-time preferred position
- No billable targets, sustainable caseloads, and a supportive environment dedicated to developing employee wellbeing and resilience
- The opportunity to use your client support skills to address gender inequity and support vulnerable women in the community
- An energised, passionate, and high-achieving team
ABOUT TEWLS
TEWLS is a community legal centre providing legal services for all women and persons identifying as women in the Top End of the Northern Territory.
Based in beautiful Darwin, TEWLS provides high quality, holistic, trauma-informed and culturally secure legal advice, casework and representation, community legal education, and advocacy in the areas of civil, family and migration law. As a front-line women’s service, the majority of TEWLS’ clients present having experienced or experiencing domestic, family and sexual violence.
TEWLS provides a vital role for women in the Top End. At an individual level, the service responds to and facilitates women’s experiences and realities, with specialist and responsive legal services. At a systemic level, clients’ collective experiences establish a salient foundation and platform for informed service advocacy and calls for systemic improvement and change.
ABOUT THE ROLE
Forming part of our Temporary Visa Holders Experiencing Violence Pilot (the Pilot), which includes the provision of legal advice and support on migration matters and related legal issues, including family law. With the Pilot currently funded to 31 May 2023, the Client Support Officer will assist in the Pilot’s day-to-day operations, including working directly with clients to support positive outcomes for temporary visa holders and women without visas escaping violent relationships, and liaising with Pilot stakeholders and partners. Under the supervision of the TEWLS Chief Executive Officer and in collaboration with the Pilot Lawyer, the Client Support Officer will provide high quality and culturally appropriate administrative and customer service support to the service and its client base, critical to the successful running of the Pilot and more broadly, TEWLS.
Notably, TEWLS’ specialist and multidisciplinary practice provides meaningful, varied, interesting, and complex legal and non-legal work, within a supportive and trauma-informed environment.
If you are looking for a unique opportunity while working in the breath-taking tropics, this role is for you!
TO APPLY
Applications for the position must be submitted by 11:59pm Sunday 19 June 2022.
Applicants for this position must address the selection criteria, found within the position description here. Applications are to be submitted by email to cweatherbyfell@tewls.org.au.
If you have any questions about the role, please contact Caitlin Weatherby-Fell, Acting Managing Solicitor on (08) 8982 3000.
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Neither of the above opportunities right for you? If you still wish to get involved in the work of TEWLS, we would love your support! You can find more information about volunteering, as well as internship and placement opportunities here.
