Company description:

Legal Aid

Job description:

• Join a high-performing team delivering strategic projects that enhance coordinated, statewide service delivery

Collaborate across multi-practice teams and both regional and metropolitan offices to, influence meaningful change and innovation.

Ongoing Full-Time role with negotiable location across NSW Legal Aid Office locations. Occasional travel to Head Office will be required

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

As a Project Officer, you'll play a key role in supporting various innovative initiatives—from regional service delivery planning to coordinating conferences, training events, and communications. Working closely with Associate Directors, you'll help drive the effective coordination and management of regional service delivery, ensuring our services reach communities where they are needed most.

About you

Legal Aid NSW is looking for a strategic thinker with a strong foundation in project management to lead and support initiatives that drive meaningful change. You will bring a proven ability to manage complex projects from planning through to execution, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and timelines.

Your communication style is adaptable and effective across diverse audiences, allowing you to build strong relationships and foster collaboration across teams and regions.

Success in this role also requires a sharp analytical mindset. You'll be skilled at interpreting and presenting complex data, transforming it into clear, actionable insights that support evidence-based decision-making.

Whether engaging technical or non-technical stakeholders, you'll communicate findings with clarity and purpose. Your experience in collaborative problem-solving and proactive stakeholder engagement will be key to aligning diverse needs with strategic objectives and delivering impactful outcomes.

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.

We want a workforce that reflects our clients, so we can deliver a service that meets the needs of the community. We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds — including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, the LGBTQI+ community, culturally diverse people and other diverse communities.

We acknowledge, support and accommodate the diverse access needs of people with visible and invisible disabilities. If you need an adjustment to participate in the recruitment process, or you'd like information about what we can do to help you, please contact our team at [email protected].

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.

The essential requirements for this role

You must:

be willing to do a Criminal Record Check and 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 application must include:

your resume (no more than 5 pages)

cover letter (no more than 2 pages). In your cover letter, please address the following two targeted questions:

1. How do you prioritise competing deadlines and manage multiple projects simultaneously?

2. Can you describe a time you contributed to an innovative initiative or service improvement?

You MUST submit your application online. Applications received late or by email, will NOT be accepted.

Make sure your application is complete, and you have answered all questions before you submit.

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?

It's important to properly prepare before you apply for a role. Here is some other information to help you:

• If you have questions about the role, you can contact the Hiring Manager or Talent Acquisition Business Partner - Axel Maire on 0404161900 or email: [email protected]

• 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.

• The focus capabilities and key accountabilities in the role description indicate what is expected at that level. Being familiar with these will help you understand what the panel will be looking for in the successful candidate.

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  Closing Date: Thursday 5th June 2025, 11.59pm