Seniors Law Manager

2 weeks ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Justice Connect Full time
About the role

In this role, you'll work to:

  • Manage, motivate and offer strategic guidance to Seniors Law staff, pro bono lawyers, secondees, and volunteers, including in relation to projects and priority cohorts.
  • Ensure ongoing and adequate funding for Seniors Law, including managing relationships with current funders and supporters, and securing new sources of financial and inkind support.
  • Prioritise and lead Seniors Law's compliance with all governance, reporting, data responsiveness, measurement, evaluation & learning requirements, including reports for the Justice Connect Board and external funders.
  • Oversee Seniors Law's existing projects, including our future planning project, along with identifying and progressing related funding and innovation opportunities.
  • Engage in systemic advocacy, strategic engagement, consumer outreach, and communitybased education activities, including contributing to submissions on areas of law or policy related to Seniors Law's clients and advocacy priorities
You'll bring to the team experience in the following areas:

  • Experience in leading high-quality legal services, including motivating and developing staff and volunteers.
  • Experience in seeking government and philanthropic support for services and projects
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to successfully manage stakeholder relationships, including with Seniors Law clients, government and philanthropic funders, the pro bono legal profession, the health, legal assistance and community sectors, and other stakeholders.
  • Experience in managing risk escalation, preferably in a notforprofit context.
  • Experience in engaging in systemic advocacy and strategic engagement work.
Expertise that you may have that would support our team:

  • Be an Australian legal practitioner eligible to hold an unrestricted practising certificate
A week in this role

If you were here last week, you would have:

  • Held a supervision catch-up with one of the Seniors Law team members to discuss issues arising in their role, monitor workload and capacity, brainstorm ideas to raise the profile of our work, and check-in on wellbeing.
  • Met with one of Seniors Law's partners, such as government, community sector & pro bono stakeholders in relation to our innovative future planning project, which promotes the uptake of enduring powers of attorney as an important safeguard against future abuse.
  • Finalised an evidencebased report and engaged with a current Seniors Law funder, sharing data and client insights about our collaborative impact in preventing and better responding to financial elder abuse.
  • Met as part of Seniors Law's senior leadership team to discuss clientfocused, evidencebased priorities and trends, including how these inform the program's current strategy implementation process.
  • Contributed to managing the risk associated with leading a highimpact community legal centre practice
What we offer


If you want your next role to have purpose, support you to master new skills and build meaningful relationships then Justice Connect is the place to work.

We believe in creating an environment where people will thrive, we offer a range of benefits including:

  • Progressive leave entitlements
  • Flexible working arrangements with a minimum of 40% in the workplace attendance across the month
  • Access to EAP
  • New hire and ongoing learning and development


Please upload your resume and a cover letter which outlines your skills and experience that will help you achieve success in this role.

For further information contact Yvonne Lipianin on

Applications close 26 June 2024 at 11:59 PM.

Important role information

The position reports to the head of Community Programs.

Employment is part time (22.5 hours per week) permanent.


The salary for this role is $117,186.56 per annum (pro rata) (plus 11% superannuation) with annual leave loading and generous salary packaging options.


This role can be based at our Melbourne or Sydney CBD offices with 40% of the month in the workplace with hybrid working arrangements.


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