Associate Director Family Greater Sydney

Location: Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000
- Req ID: 73943

**Associate Director - Family Law Division**
- Ongoing - Full Time position
- Clerk Grade 12, 2nd Year - $168,130 pa plus super and annual leave loading
- Location - Central Sydney Office at Haymarket. Flexible work arrangements are negotiable, but this role requires regular travel within Greater Sydney and occasionally across NSW.

**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**:
We are looking for an experienced senior manager with demonstrated extensive Family practice experience. The role will be responsible for providing senior leadership plus strategic direction to allocated offices and teams across Greater Sydney to ensure coordinated high-quality cross divisional services are provided to clients, communities and regions.

**About you**:

- You will have extensive experience within your practice area with strong collaborative skills.
- You will be able to demonstrate your strong senior management experience and will enjoy proactively contributing to strategic priorities and planning.
- Your ability to work both autonomously and as part of a large team/division is a vital attribute.

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 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 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 key knowledge and essential requirements for this role**:
**Key Knowledge and Experience**:

- Qualifications to practice as an Australian Legal Practitioner
- NSW Practising Certificate (unrestricted or eligible for unrestricted practicing certificate)

**Essential Requirements**:

- Demonstrated senior management experience
- Practice expertise in Family Law
- be willing to do a Criminal Record Check and Working with Children Check
- hold Australian or NZ citizenship, Australian Permanent Residency (for ongoing vacancies)
- Drivers Licence
- Ability to undertake regular travel within greater Sydney and at times across NSW

It is a statutory obligation for staff to hold a valid Working With Children Check for this role. You will be required to provide your Working With Children Check details prior to commencement in this role.

How to apply
- your resume (no more than 5 pages)

**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 of the role.
- Working at Legal Aid NSW

Application closes on: Monday 5 May 2025, 11:59pm