Senior Migration Lawyer - Temporary Visa Holders Pilot

POSITION TITLE: Senior Migration Lawyer (Temporary Visa Holders Pilot)

REPORTING TO: Principal Lawyer

SALARY: $110,873 - $143,611

POSITION BASIS: Full-time (38 hours per week)

Top End Women's Legal Service

Job description

The Top End Women’s Legal Service (TEWLS) seeks a Senior Migration Lawyer (minimum 5 years PAE+) to join our vibrant and expanding team and help achieve our vision – a community in which women enjoy and are entitled to legal and social justice.

ABOUT TEWLS

TEWLS is a not-for-profit, specialist women’s legal service providing integrated legal and support services for all women and persons identifying as women in the Top End of the Northern Territory.

Based in beautiful Darwin, TEWLS provides integrated, holistic, trauma-informed and culturally secure free legal advice, casework and representation, information and referral, wraparound social support, community legal education, and advocacy in the areas of civil, family and migration law. TEWLS is a specialist domestic, family and sexual violence legal service, with particular expertise in providing services to women with intersectional vulnerabilities.

TEWLS provides a vital role for women in the Top End. At an individual level, the service responds to and facilitates women’s experiences and realities, with specialist and responsive legal services. At a systemic level, clients’ collective experiences establish a salient foundation and platform for informed service advocacy and calls for systemic improvement and change.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Under the supervision of the TEWLS Principal Lawyer, the Senior Migration Lawyer role will provide legal services within the Temporary Visa Holders Pilot, with particular focus on the migration law and domestic, family and sexual violence , alongside complementary areas of family and civil law.

As an integrated and multi-disciplinary service, the Senior Migration Lawyer will work alongside legal and social staff and will have carriage of a range of legal matters and clinics, including court representation. They will also contribute to the service’s community legal education and advocacy focuses, including stakeholder engagement and law reform.

Notably, TEWLS’ specialist practice provides meaningful, varied, interesting, and complex legal work, within a supportive and trauma-informed environment.

If you are looking for a unique opportunity to develop and use your developing legal skillset while working in the breath-taking tropics, this role is for you!

WHAT WE OFFER

At TEWLS, we offer:

Competitive remuneration package), including 12% superannuation, salary sacrifice and six (6) weeks’ annual leave with leave loading

No billable targets, sustainable caseloads, and a supportive environment dedicated to developing and maintaining employee wellbeing and resilience, while supporting your professional development

The opportunity to use your legal skills to address gender inequity and support vulnerable women in the community

Front-line work within a supportive and integrated practice

An energised, passionate, and high-achieving team

TO APPLY

Applicants for this position must address the selection criteria. For a copy of the position description, please contact Office Manager, Rachael Hillier – [email protected]

TEWLS is committed to working together to achieve a more inclusive community. Our workplace strives to be one that embraces and celebrates diversity and the wide range of skills, expertise and experience we can all bring to strengthen our dynamic, collaborative and responsive environment.

TEWLS encourages people from all backgrounds to apply, particularly those that identify as part of LGBTIQA+ community, as well as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds, and people with disabilities.