Manager - Respectful Workplace Support Team

Location: Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000
- Req ID: 76186

**Manager - Respectful Workplace Support Team**

**Clerk Grade 11/12**
- Temporary - Full Time - 35 hours per week - 30 June 2026
- Clerk Grade 11/12 (between $149,739 - $173,174 plus super and annual leave loading)
- Office in Central Sydney (Haymarket); with flexible/hybrid work arrangements available

**About us**

Legal Aid NSW helps people with their legal problems. We can help people with most areas of the law: criminal, family, and everyday civil legal concerns. 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**

The role of Manager Respectful Workplace Support Team is responsible for establishing and leading our Respectful Workplace Support Team. This team supports Legal Aid NSW to be a respectful workplace, including by supporting Legal Aid NSW staff and managers to resolve workplace issues.

This role will lead the Respectful Workplace team in providing advice, guidance and support to staff in addressing and facilitating the resolution of issues in the workplace; to reduce the number of these issues through training, policy development and other proactive measures and drive positive change across the organisation.

**About you**

You possess superior communication and influencing skills in promoting new and exciting initiatives, to foster a culture that supports a sense of belonging and embraces diversity and inclusion.

**WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN LEGAL AID NSW**

**We are committed to diversity and inclusion**

We are committed 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.

**Other benefits of working with us**
- You will have access to training, development and mentoring opportunities.
- We are an accredited Flex Ready and Carers and Employers certified employer and are recognised as leaders in 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
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**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)
- live in NSW or willing to relocate to NSW

**How to apply**
- your resume (no more than 5 pages)
- cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please address the two (2) target questions below:

- How would you use your experience of managing workplace issues to promote a positive culture and reduce conflict at Legal Aid NSW?
- How would you ensure the Respectful Workplace Team works with managers and people leaders to achieve positive change across the organisation?

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

**Do you need help to apply?**
- 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 and Focus Capabilities of the role.
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**Closing** D**ate: Friday, 15 August 2025 at 11.59pm