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Utilise your skills and experience to support a community legal organisation assisting vulnerable and disadvantaged people in their access to legal services.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

• Full-time position
• Generous salary packaging
• Great team culture – work with a team of passionate and caring professionals on meaningful work
• Employee Assistance Program for you and your family

ABOUT THE ROLE

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced People, Culture and Safety Manager to join Circle Green. As we continue to grow so does this role, which plays a key role in shaping our workplace culture and supporting our people through all stages of their employment lifecycle. You’ll manage a broad range of responsibilities, from recruitment and onboarding to driving strategic workforce planning, overseeing employee relations and implementing workplace health and safety initiatives.

Working closely with the leadership and executive team, you will develop and implement effective people and culture frameworks, policies and procedures to ensure Circle Green can attract, retain, develop and manage an engaged workforce, while fostering a safe, inclusive, and engaging work environment.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

• Develop and execute a comprehensive People and Culture strategy and strategic Workforce Plan.
• Proactively address emerging people and culture risks, challenges, and opportunities.
• Oversee the development, review, and maintenance of Human Resources policies and procedures in compliance with relevant legislation.
• Drive impactful initiatives to enhance employee experience and engagement.
• Work effectively with employee delegates and union to ensure positive employee relations.
• Foster an inclusive, positive, and engaged workplace culture aligned with the organisation’s values.
• Implement health, safety, and wellbeing initiatives that support, care for, and protect staff, including psychosocial safety.
• Manage HR functions, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and professional development.
• Oversee and optimise the HRIS, ensuring accurate employee data and reporting.
• Provide timely HR advice and support to the leadership team and employees.
• Support, advise, and coach the senior leadership team in managing staffing matters, including performance management, behaviour, and grievances.
• Lead and support the Human Resources Officer in delivering key objectives.

About You

Credentials and Experience 

• Tertiary degree in Human Resource Management/ Employee Relations or related field
• Previous 3+ years experience in a similar role, preferably in not-for-profit or community based organisations.
• Experience in utilising and implementing a HRIS Systems (Employment Hero or similar)

Skills 

• You are a strong communicator (written and verbal) with the ability to influence, partner and coach senior leaders on People and Culture matters
• You are able to manage and collaboratively drive change across an organisation
• You have excellent organisational skills, with the capacity to plan a high and diverse workload, manage timelines and deliver high quality outcomes.
• Demonstrated commitment to the principles of social justice and human rights

Please see the position description.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping the people and culture capabilities of Circle Green.

Join a team of passionate and diverse, like minded professionals committed to creating accessible justice, and providing best practice legal services in our specialist field.

APPLY NOW

To apply, submit your CV and a Cover Letter addressing the selection criteria directly via Seek by 2 April 2024.  Early applications are encouraged as shortlisting may commence immediately.  We reserve the right to close the position once a suitable candidate is identified.

Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you for your interest in working at Circle Green.

If you have any questions or would like to have a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Human Resources at (08) 6148 3648 or by email to hr@circlegreen.org.au.

Circle Green is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values and supports all individuals. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, people from the LGBTIQA+ community, and people with disabilities.

Unique and exciting opportunity for a Lawyer to join Working Women’s Centre (WWC), an initiative to empower and support women in the workplace! 

WHAT WE CAN OFFER

• Permanent Full-Time (part-time working arrangements considered)
• Generous salary packaging
• Great team culture – work with a team of passionate and caring professionals on meaningful work.

About Working Women’s Centre WA (WWC)

Working Women’s Centres provide free information, advocacy, advice and assistance to women on workplace issues, including workplace entitlements and rights, gender issues, cultural diversity, discrimination and sexual harassment. Women’s Legal Service WA  is implementing the Western Australian WWC in partnership with Circle Green. The WA WWC service model is holistic and trauma-informed, to ensure that issues in relation to the workplace are addressed in the context of women’s other needs.

About Circle Green Community Legal (Circle Green)

Circle Green provides state-wide specialist legal services in employment, workplace discrimination, residential tenancy law, family and domestic violence, and humanitarian services aimed at assisting people who are otherwise disadvantaged in their access to legal services.

About Women’s Legal Service WA (WLSWA)

WLSWA is the only gender specific community legal centre in WA, delivering services to women who are financially disadvantaged, and who live with multiple vulnerabilities that creates other barriers to accessing justice. Socio-legal assistance is tailored to ensure continuity in support and mitigate re-traumatising clients. As a specialist legal service, WLSWA works alongside and compliments generalist community legal centre work. WLSWA also promotes women’s human rights to be upheld and fosters legal and social change through a range of strategic activities, including law and policy reform.  WLSWA is the lead agency in the delivery of the WWCWA and will host the service hub and provide central coordination.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We are seeking Lawyers (unrestricted) to provide comprehensive legal advice, casework, representation, community legal education & training, and law reform contributions in the area of workplace law. The WWCWA Lawyers will work under the direct supervision of a Senior Lawyer and ultimate supervision of the Principal Lawyer – Workplace at Circle Green. Lawyers will also be responsible to the WWCWA Manager.

You will work closely with both WA WWC staff and Circle Green’s Workplace Stream as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide clients with trauma-informed, effective, and accessible socio-legal services to working women in WA. You will work with clients and WA WWC social workers to ensure each client’s workplace issues are addressed in the context of their broader social needs. A client-centred approach and a commitment to ensuring a best practice integrated response for working women experiencing complex and intersecting needs are essential.

Based in the Perth office, Lawyers will be required to travel to undertake outreach circuits across regional WA.

Key Responsibilities of the role include:

• Legal advice. Delivering high quality, trauma informed and pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of employment law and workplace discrimination issues.
• Litigation work. Conduct casework, including legal tasks, pre-litigation representation, and court / tribunal representation in a range of workplace law jurisdictions.
• Integrated practice. Work with social workers, interpreters, disability advocates, financial counsellors and other support workers to meet clients’ broader needs and deliver accessible legal services.
• Strategic law reform and advocacy. Identify gaps and opportunities for meaningful reform of workplace laws for the benefit of working women in WA.

ABOUT YOU

Shortlisted candidates will have:

Credentials and Experience 

• A Law Degree and admitted (or eligible for admission) as a legal practitioner in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and hold an unrestricted (or eligible to hold) WA practicing certificate.
• At least 2 years post admission experience in workplace law.
• A demonstrated commitment to human rights and social justice issues, including advancing interests of women, reducing gender inequality and empowering women.

Skills 

• Excellent written and verbal communications skills, with the ability to understand and convey complex concepts to people from diverse social, cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• Ability to work effectively within a multi-disciplinary team and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated problem solving, negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Ability to conduct casework and litigation, including advocacy skills.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to play a key role in empowering and supporting women in the workplace.

Join a team of passionate and diverse, like minded professionals committed to creating accessible justice, and providing best practice legal services in our specialist field.

Please see the position description.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, submit your CV and a Cover Letter addressing the selection criteria directly via Seek. Please do not email applications.

Applications close Monday 3 March. Early applications are encouraged as shortlisting may commence immediately.

If you have any questions or would like to have a confidential discussion about the role, please contact Human Resources at (08) 6148 3648 or by email to hr@circlegreen.org.au

Circle Green is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace that values and supports all individuals. We encourage applications from diverse backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds, people from the LGBTIQA+ community, and people with disabilities.