- Employment Type: continuing full time (35-hour week)
- Remuneration: (Level 8) $123,044 - $138,636 + 17% Superannuation
- Location: Kensington, NSW
Why Your Role Matters:
Kingsford Legal Centre (KLC) is a community legal centre providing free legal advice and assistance to people who live, work or study in the Randwick and Botany Bay local government areas in NSW. Our team of Solicitors/Clinical Supervisors provide advice on a wide variety of matters.
The Senior Solicitor/Clinical Supervisor position at KLC offers a unique blend of leadership, mentorship, and hands-on legal practice. In this role, you will oversee advice, casework, and community legal education, while providing day-to-day supervision to a team of dedicated lawyers. Working closely with the Principal Solicitor, you will ensure the effective running of the legal practice, delivering high-quality legal services to KLC clients in line with funding and risk management requirements.
This leadership role involves managing and developing a team of lawyers, focusing on client service, process development, and collaboration. You will conduct complex casework and support solicitors handling demanding client work across various legal areas, including general civil law, employment law, discrimination and sexual harassment law, and a health justice partnership. Additionally, you will manage advice nights, attend community outreaches, and conduct community legal education, while teaching UNSW Law & Justice students in a best practice clinical legal education model.
The role of Senior Solicitor/Clinical Supervisor reports to the Director/ Deputy Director of KLC and has direct legal supervision reports. Join us to advance your career and contribute to the professional growth of future legal leaders.
Accountabilities
Specific accountabilities for this role include:
- Lead and support a team of lawyers within Kingsford Legal Centre and work collaboratively with other Centre staff to drive the Centre’s strategic work.
- Provide legal supervision to a team of lawyers in accordance with the Centre’s risk management policies under the direction of the Principal Solicitor.
- Conduct strategic and complex advice and casework across the Centre’s work and provide high-level supervision to lawyers undertaking this work.
- Assist with the management of the day-to-day operation of the Centre’s legal service, including around the effective utilisation of the Centres’ electronic case management system as delegated.
- Supervise evening advice sessions, as required.
- Contribute to the development of funding and strategic relationships and work collaboratively to secure new opportunities which align with the Centre’s needs and goals.
- Proactively develop and deliver community legal education and law reform projects.
- In conjunction with the team, collaborate and develop innovative opportunities for student learning in the Centre and continuous process improvement to the day-to-day work.
- Represent the Centre to high level stakeholders, and ensure relationships are built and maintained to ensure the success of the Centre’s goals and objectives.
- Identify service gaps and respond to new and emerging legal issues for our community in innovative ways.
- Identify and implement Access and Equity strategies in respect of the Centre’s students and clients.
Skills and Experience
To be considered you will hold Australian Working Rights or Australian Citizenship. Visa sponsorship will not be available for this role.
- Eligible to practise as a solicitor New South Wales on an unrestricted practising certificate.
- Extensive skills and experience as a supervising solicitor, including strong knowledge of risk
management requirements and managing vicarious trauma.
- Extensive experience managing and supervising staff, volunteers and students in a community
legal centre environment or legal assistance environment and a knowledge of funding
requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to supervise a generalist legal practice and extensive experience providing
legal advice within a trauma-informed model, to clients with complex needs.
- Strong experience in complex advice and casework including experience undertaking litigation in
areas relevant to KLC’s practice.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, with the ability to develop strong
relationships with stakeholders.
- Demonstrated initiative with excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills.
- Proven experience to manage multiple projects, experience working in complex funding
environments, a knowledge of electronic case management systems and an ability to drive
innovation in relation to responding to legal need.
Pre-Employment Checks:
- Verification of Qualifications
Benefits and Culture:
People are at the core of everything we do. We recognise it is the contributions of our staff who make UNSW one of the best universities in Australia and the world.
Our benefits include:
- 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
- Career development opportunities
- Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
- Discounts and entitlements (retail, education, fitness)
- Option to study and save with 50% off tuition fees for courses and degrees at UNSW.
- UNSW’s Flexible Work Policy provides staff with the opportunity to personalise worktimes (e.g., early start time to finish early).
- UNSW supports staff who have family responsibilities through a number of entitlements including parental leave, primary carer leave and more!
For further details on the benefits, please visit https://www.jobs.unsw.edu.au/lifestyle-benefits
How to Apply:
Please submit both a CV and Cover Letter online before Sunday 11th May 2025 by 11:30pm. Please ensure your Cover Letter addresses how your experience fits the role (maximum length 2 pages).
Get in Touch:
If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please contact Anabel Wason, Talent Acquisition Consultant at a.wason@unsw.edu.au
Please apply online, any applications sent to the contact above will not be accepted.
UNSW is committed to evolving a culture that embraces equity and supports a diverse and inclusive community where everyone can participate fairly, in a safe and respectful environment. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and encourage applications from people of diverse gender, sexual orientation, cultural and linguistic backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background, people with disability and those with caring and family responsibilities. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability, and access to flexible work options for eligible staff.
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