Drive strategy. Mentor a team. Make a difference.

• Full time, ongoing position (part time considered)
• Location: Melbourne CBD on Wurundjeri Country / Hybrid (with travel to regional areas as required)
• Salary range: $110,357 - $127,333 (pro rata) + super, plus salary packaging

We're seeking a Senior Recruitment & Retention Consultant to help us shape the future of legal assistance in Victoria.

Working closely with senior leaders, you'll play a key role in solving some of our most pressing talent challenges—attracting and retaining skilled, purpose-driven professionals to deliver specialist legal and other services to remote and regional communities where they're needed most.

This is more than recruitment. It's an opportunity to help create a stronger, more accessible justice system for people facing disadvantage.

What you'll do:

• Lead recruitment especially for high-impact, senior and hard-to-fill roles—from initial brief to successful onboarding.
• Advise and influence hiring managers as a trusted partner, helping shape best-practice approaches to position design, candidate attraction and selection.
• Drive strategic projects to improve recruitment, onboarding, and retention processes—contributing to a more agile, inclusive, and impactful HR function.
• Mentor and guide a team of recruitment consultants, building capability in sourcing, assessment, and stakeholder management.
• Champion equity and access, helping us attract and retain a workforce that reflects the communities we serve, in line with our Aboriginal Employment Strategy and DEI goals.

About you

• Extensive recruitment experience including proactive sourcing and headhunting, ideally in a public sector, complex or high-volume environment.
• Strong consulting skills with the ability to influence stakeholders and guide hiring decisions with confidence and credibility.
• A coaching mindset—you enjoy sharing your expertise, giving feedback and supporting others to grow.
• Creative problem-solving skills to address hard-to-fill roles, remote service challenges and systemic barriers to talent attraction.
• Deep commitment to inclusion and experience applying culturally safe, accessible, and responsive recruitment practices.
• Great communication and collaboration—you're equally comfortable engaging with executives or advising early-career recruiters.
• Systems-savvy, with experience using e-recruitment tools such as Springboard, and using data to drive decisions.
• A purpose-driven approach, with a genuine desire to improve outcomes for people and communities doing it tough.

Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.

About Victoria Legal Aid

We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1400 staff employed in 16 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.

Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.

Employee benefits

• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals & Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing
• Opportunity to join Myki Commuter Club
• Supportive team environment in modern offices (including free gym and end-of-trip facilities at our CBD office)
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance
• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
• Hybrid work from home & office model
• Training and professional development opportunities

How to apply

Apply now with your current resume and a cover letter, to help us build a stronger workforce—and a fairer justice system for all.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team.

For more information or a confidential conversation, contact Elisé Burch, Associate Director Advisory / Resourcing / Payroll on [email protected].

Applications close by 11.59pm on Tuesday 7 October 2025

Other relevant information

This role requires a minimum of three days per week office attendance at our Bourke St office in Melbourne CBD, on Wurundjeri Country.

VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.