Paralegal Assistant (Stateless Legal Clinic)

Job no: 0063332
Location: Parkville
Role type: Part-time (0.4 or 0.2 FTE); Fixed-term for 12 months
Faculty: Melbourne Law School
Salary: $76,901 - $81,615 p.a (UOM 4) + 17% super (pro rata for part-time)

• Champion legal education and support for stateless children and adults in Australia.
• Gain hands-on legal experience and insights into statelessness and human rights careers.
• Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families!

About the Role
As a member of our Stateless Legal Clinic, you'll work alongside legal experts and community organisations to provide vital legal aid and support to stateless children and adults in Australia. Your work will encompass everything from citizenship applications to complex immigration cases, while also contributing to groundbreaking research and teaching the next generation of human rights lawyers.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing administrative support to the Stateless Legal Clinic team, including coordinating meetings, travel arrangements, and general correspondence.
• Responding to telephone and email inquiries, processing invoices, undertaking credit card reconciliations, and maintaining accurate records within the relevant records management system.
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with Clinic partners and collaborators, while undertaking projects and other duties as assigned by the Stateless Legal Clinic Director.

Who We Are Looking For
You will be a highly organised and communicative individual with a strong attention to detail. Your ability to manage multiple tasks efficiently, while maintaining a compassionate and respectful approach, is essential. A proactive and self-motivated team player, you will thrive in a fast-paced environment. Applicants with lived experience of statelessness are particularly encouraged to apply.

You will also have:

• Currently undertaking a law degree or recent completion of a degree.
• Proven experience in administrative roles.
• Proficiency in standard office software applications (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite)
• Knowledge of legal research and documentation procedures.

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

This role requires that the successful candidate must undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn't have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.

Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.

Your New Team – Melbourne Law School
Melbourne Law School is Australia's first all-graduate law faculty. Melbourne Law School was the first faculty in Australia to teach law and awarded this country's first law degrees. The Law School is now fully graduate with its Juris Doctor for admission to practice recognised as a high-level qualification in Australia and beyond. Coupled with the unrivalled excellence of the Melbourne Law Masters and its excellent Research Higher Degree programs, the Law School offers a unique opportunity for the integration of scholarship and teaching.

Its faculty is a vibrant community of creative scholars, committed to a highly collegial, research-intensive institutional life. The Law School has strengths in comparative analysis. It aims to integrate teaching with research and engagement activities and to engage with local, national and global communities.

The Law School is a single department faculty located in a custom designed building in University Square. The Law School has approximately 2,200 graduate students (including JD, Melbourne Law Masters and Research High Degrees).

What We Offer You!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits  page!

About the University of Melbourne
We’re tightly connected with the community, both at home and abroad. We take pride in our people, who all contribute to our mission to benefit society through the transformative impact of education and research. Discover more via our website  and stay connected with our stories and people on LinkedIn .   

Be Yourself
The University of Melbourne values the unique backgrounds, experiences and contributions that each person brings to our community and welcomes and celebrates diversity.  First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information please visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.

We are dedicated to ensuring barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit the most talented candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact Kim Groizard at [email protected] , with an email containing your name and contact details for a confidential discussion. Please ensure your email is titled "Reasonable Adjustments Request".

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians, with unprecedented investment to attract, nurture and retain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. Tangible support through a range of programs and initiatives will ensure that you personally succeed and flourish while at the University of Melbourne.

For further information, including our 2023-2027 Indigenous strategy please visit -https://about.unimelb.edu.au/reconciliation/murmuk-djerring

Join Us!

If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents: 

• Resume
• Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
• The responses against the Selection Criteria^ (found in the Position Description)

^For information to help you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria and competencies, please go to http://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Petra Newton via email at [email protected] , ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.

If you have any particular questions regarding the job please follow the details listed on the Position Description.

Position Description