Women’s Legal Services Australia | Melbourne CBD | Immediate start | Hybrid working model | Part time (0.4 FTE) | Ongoing
Women’s Legal Services Australia (WLSA) is the peak body for Women’s Legal Services, with 13 members across the country. It is hosted by Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Women’s Legal).
WLSA’s purpose is to:
Working closely with the WLSA Executive Director, the Communications Specialist is a new role that will support the delivery of WLSA's communications, media, digital engagement, advocacy and member engagement activities. The role is responsible for developing and distributing communications content, maintaining WLSA's digital presence, coordinating media engagement activities, and supporting advocacy objectives through effective communications initiatives.
Working closely with WLSA’s staff, WLSA members and external stakeholders, the Communications Specialist will help raise the profile of WLSA and promote key priorities, and advocacy projects by WLSA and its members. Key responsibilities include:
You are a creative and proactive communications professional who is passionate about using strategic communications to support gender justice and equality. You enjoy crafting compelling content, working collaboratively and finding engaging ways to communicate complex issues. With experience across media, digital communications and stakeholder engagement, you thrive in a small and collaborative team, can manage competing priorities, and are motivated by the opportunity to contribute to meaningful outcomes for women and non-binary people across Australia.
Key to your success is your:
Why Women’s Legal?
Be a part of a supportive, inclusive and purpose-driven workplace where your work truly matters. We offer:
Submit a resume and covering letter to tell us how you are the right candidate for this role. Please ensure the cover letter addresses how you personally align to Women’s Legal values and intersectional feminist principles as described in the attached position description.
Research shows that women are less likely to apply for roles if they don’t meet 100% of the selection criteria. We encourage you to apply if you don’t meet all the criteria, but this role sounds like a good fit for you.
All successful candidates will be required to produce a national criminal history check prior to the commencement of their employment.
Disclosure of a criminal record does not necessarily preclude appointment by Women’s Legal, but if needed, we invite applicants to address this issue early in the application phase. Should a criminal record disclosure be advised by a candidate, Women’s Legal will endeavour to provide clarity over whether the conviction would preclude a candidate from being able to carry out the position duties.
Enquiries can be emailed to Judy Ma, People & Culture Officer at hr@womenslegal.org.au.
We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and respectful workplace. We recognise our work benefits greatly from the unique knowledge, skills, and expertise of individuals with diverse experiences, including women and non-binary people who are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, with disability, with lived experience of family and sexual violence, and from migrant, refugee, culturally and racially marginalised backgrounds. If this is you, we strongly encourage you to apply.
Note, Women's Legal relies on an exception under the Equal Opportunity Act to employ women and non-binary people only.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
