Aboriginal Community Justice Reports Program Manager

3 weeks ago

Preston, Australia Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service Full time

Draft Job description
**Job Title**: Program Manager, Aboriginal Community Justice Reports

**Located at**:Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (Preston office)

**Supervision**: CEO, Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service; Project Lead, UTS

**Direct Employer**:University of Technology Sydney

**Rate**:$52.66-$55.75 per hour (plus 30% oncosts inc. superannuation)

**Hours / duration**: Full-time equivalent (35 hours per week) until 31 December 2023, with capacity to extend

**Employment type**:This is an identified position - this is an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander designated position, classified under Section 12 Special Measures of the Equal Opportunity Act 2010. This employment opportunity is only available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

**Overview of Role**:
The Aboriginal Community Justice Report Program Manager will be employed to manage and prepare Aboriginal Community Justice Reports for criminal courts in Victoria (with a focus on Melbourne and La Trobe Valley) and provide related case work support. The reports provide the life history of the client and the community history of their mob, including culture, colonisation and current circumstances. They are prepared independently for criminal sentencing. The reports include a set of culturally appropriate and individually relevant options for community-based healing. The reports are strengths-focused and recognises the capacity of the client and Aboriginal community to articulate their own stories and be part of self-determining the sentence proposals.

The role is part a pilot project for Aboriginal Community Justice Reports that is funded by the Australian Research Council. It is the first of its kind in Australia and seeks to enhance Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples’ capacity to tell their story in courts and promote appropriate sentence options. The project is jointly implemented by the the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service (VALS) and University of Technology Sydney (UTS), along with Griffith University, the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration (AIJA) and Five Bridges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander organisation in Queensland.

The Program Manager will be directly supervised by the CEO of VALS, Nerita Waight and located at the VALS office. They will be joint-supervised by Professors Thalia Anthony and Larissa Behrendt and employed by UTS. The manager will receive training from Gladue Report writers located in Canada.

The day to day duties include managing referrals from lawyers, interviewing Aboriginal defendants within 8 weeks to prepare the Aboriginal Community Justice Report, coordinating case work referrals and proposed sentence options, communicating with family and support people of the client and researching the client’s Aboriginal community, culture and experiences of colonisation.

**Skills**
- Storytelling experience
- Case work experience
- Capacity to undertake research on Aboriginal community histories
- Report writing experience

**Main capabilities**:

- Capacity to manage all key areas of Aboriginal Community Justice Report Program
- Capacity to work with and take direction from an Aboriginal-owned legal service
- Capacity to work with Aboriginal people in the criminal justice system, including in prisons, and the Aboriginal community
- Capacity to communicate with lawyers and manage referrals
- Capacity to work independently while taking direction from supervisors
- Capacity to multitask on report writing, case work and communication with clients and their family/supports, courts, lawyers and researchers
- Capacity to undertake socio-historical-legal research
- Capacity to write reports
- Capacity to work to deadlines while under pressure from competing priorities
- Capacity to advocate for the Aboriginal Community Justice Report Program

**Responsibilities and Duties**:

- Manage project referrals and timelines with lawyers and courts
- Provide weekly updates to supervisors on report and referral progress and respond to feedback;
- Prepare clients with prior information about the report process, including engagement with the research/evaluation component of the pilot, and obtain consent for participation
- Schedule, arrange and conduct interviews with clients, their families and support people, including providing them with prior information about the interview process and explaining what they can do to prepare for their interview;
- Conduct research on the client’s community, culture, Country, impacts of colonisation, ongoing racism and strengths
- Provide ongoing support to client and identify relevant referral pathways throughout preparation of report and for 8 weeks subsequent to court hearing
- Prepare concise, accurate and impartial reports based on evidence gathered from interviews, research and identified referral pathways / sentence options
- Attend court to answer any questions or provide clarification as may be required
- Willingness to travel to La T

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