Lawyer & Clinical Program Lead

Position type: 4-5 days per week (ongoing)| Location: Melbourne (2 days per week in the office, 3 days working from home) | Salary: $85,200 (pro-rata) + super + salary packaging | Start Date: Early 2025

Join Anika at a critical stage of expansion, and play a key role in building its unique service model.

• Become a part of an entrepreneurial, compassionate team motivated by its vision of a world where everyone can access justice.
• Contribute to developing efficient, scalable legal services by leveraging technology, law students, and social enterprise.
• Deliver legal services in a practice that is enabled by innovation and aims to achieve data-driven systemic advocacy in access to justice.

At Anika Legal, we believe everyone deserves a safe and secure home.

Imagine living in a home that made you sick, having to choose between paying rent or eating, or living in constant fear of becoming homeless. That is the reality for most of the 7 million renters in Australia who are denied a safe home.

Anika Legal is a free, non-profit legal service for renters that empowers renters to thrive in safe homes.

Through casework, innovation and systemic advocacy, we support our clients and fight for a fair housing system so that every renter can live in a safe, secure, affordable home that supports their quality of life.

Anika Legal is committed to building a team that is as diverse as the community we serve.

Our team is better with people from diverse backgrounds and lived experiences who work together to impactfully create access to justice. We believe in fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace for people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, cultural and linguistic backgrounds and abilities. We strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island people, people who are culturally and linguistically diverse, people who are LGBTQIA+, disabled people and people of mature age to apply.

Learn more about how Anika works and the four reasons people want to work at Anika.

You will report to the Principal Lawyer, and run our clinical legal education programs

• Supervising and mentoring our law students interns to provide legal assistance.
• Improving the design of our legal services, legal operations, and student programs, by using a data-driven, human-centred approach.
• Supporting the Principal Lawyer to expand our service offering and education provider partnerships, create and implement organisational strategy, and champion Anika's culture.
• Adapting to the needs of a dynamic organisation - important, unforeseeable jobs pop up often in a startup! Like all employees, you must be willing to step out of your role to best support the team.
• For the right candidate there may be opportunities to contribute to service design, project management, policy and systemic advocacy, monitoring and evaluation, and legal operations.

You are a driven self-starter who’s eager for adventure, responsibility, and likes challenging the way things are done. You’ll also have a strong sense of social justice, the essential qualifications and some of the advantageous qualities.

Essential qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience working as a lawyer.

Advantageous qualities:

• You are eager for challenge and responsibility in supporting the development and management of a rapidly growing legal practice. This role is guaranteed to evolve rapidly and you will grow with it by stepping out of your comfort zone and learning to do things you’ve never done before.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative - you embrace doing things differently and can take off the ‘lawyer hat’ to challenge the way legal services are traditionally provided. You are someone eager to bring your own flair to the way things are done.
• An interest in mentoring law students to foster a more socially conscious next generation of lawyers.
• Curious and client-focused - you understand that the law isn’t designed with clients in mind, and you are keen to deliver services and projects that make a real difference.
• Startup-ready - you are pragmatic, determined, and like getting things done.
• Experience in the legal assistance sector, especially tenancy and consumer debt.
• You have an interest in developing the following skills:
  • Legal operations
  • Process mapping and UX/service design
  • Monitoring and evaluation - including working with data
  • Project management
  • Policy and systemic advocacy
  • Cross-functional and Agile ways of working

Send us your CV and a little bit about yourself

To apply for this role, fill out this application form (click here) which will ask you to upload your CV, a cover letter, and answer a few questions about yourself. Do not submit your application by email - these will not be considered.

If you have further queries about the role or are having difficulties completing the application form, contact Zoe Chan (Principal Lawyer) at [email protected].

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