The Team Leader will play a key role in expanding CAWLS community outreach programs to remote communities across Central Australia. Adopting human-centred design principles, you will contribute to the development of integrated community justice partnership models to respond to local unmet legal need within identified communities & build capacity within those communities to identify & respond to legal issues, with a focus on enhancing access to justice for women. Undertaking activities in relation to domestic, family & sexual violence across the prevention spectrum including primary prevention, early intervention, crisis response, healing & recovery. The Team Lead will work with a multidisciplinary team bringing a broad range of skills and experience from within CAWLS together with local community members and services to enhance the effectiveness and impact of outreach activities. This role will also involve direct delivery of legal advice and case management.
The primary objectives of the role are to;
• Engage with local community members and services to develop a collaborative approach to partnerships and outreach programs to enhance access to justice for women, and reduce instances and severity of domestic, family and sexual occurring in Central Australia.
• Co-design project plans for outreach programs with identified communities.
• Manage ongoing relationships and coordinate delivery of services against agreed project plans for each community.
• Oversee relevant data collection/entry and contribute to reports to meet grant requirements
• Deliver legal education and DFSV education to community members and services.
• Provide direct legal services within remote communities, with particular focus on DFSV, family law and child protection.
• Undertake training/professional development in consultation with the Education & Policy Manager and/or Senior Management Team.
• Perform other duties as directed & necessary to the proper performance of the role.
