Senior Engagement and Projects Coordinator

About this role

• Part time (0.6 FTE) ongoing position
• Salary range: $110,357 - $127,333 (pro rata) plus super plus salary packaging
• Up to $15,900 in salary packaging and hybrid WFH & office model

About the role
This role will work closely with the Equality Law Program management team. You will develop, implement and evaluate projects aimed at improving the program for our priority client groups. You will also coordinate our sexual harassment lived experience reference group, deepen our client centred and trauma-informed practice and build capacity and connections across the legal assistance sector. Additionally, you will foster engagement and strong relationships with our key stakeholders.

This role is based at our Melbourne CBD office on Wurundjeri Country.

About you
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Demonstrated experience in project management, including service design, evaluation, reporting, developing a plan, working within a project management framework, managing budgets and risk.
• Ability to effectively manage your workload and meet tight deadlines.
• Demonstrated understanding of the needs of clients who have had experienced discrimination, sexual harassment or violent crime, experience working with people with lived experience, and understanding of the importance of embedding lived experience in service design, delivery and evaluation to ensure that services are client-centred, trauma-informed and address intersectional experiences of discrimination.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the capacity to influence and negotiate with people across all levels
• Demonstrated experience working with organisations and/or services relevant to the role.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical information and ideas to a wide audience, including people from different backgrounds.

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 offer legal representation, family dispute resolution and non-legal advocacy 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

• Focus on work-life balance including flexible working arrangements
• Hybrid work from home & office model
• Training and professional development opportunities
• 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(and salary package the cost)
• Supportive team environment in modern offices (including free gym and end-of-trip facilities at our CBD office)
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance

How to apply
To be considered for this role, please submit your current resume and a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria.

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 further information, please review the attached position description or contact Catherine Hemingway, Associate Director – Equality Law on (03) 9269 0516 or recruitment@vla.vic.gov.au.

No agency applications will be accepted.

Applications close by 11.59pm on Monday 27 October 2025.

Other relevant information
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.

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