Deputy Managing Lawyer – WILO – Fitzroy Legal Service – Fitzroy VIC

• Full-time to 30 September 2027
• Fitzroy or Reservoir based, with travel around Melbourne to outreach and service locations
• $118,433 + super + salary packaging

This is an identified role and only women, trans and gender diverse people are eligible to apply, in line with the special measures provision in the Equal Opportunity Act 2010

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Women’s Integrated Legal Outreach (WILO) program provides gender-informed, integrated legal and social work support to criminalised women and trans and gender diverse people who have significant and multiple complex needs. Staffed by two social workers and one senior criminal lawyer, the program provides assertive outreach, legal representation, cross-referral pathways and holistic support with the aim of breaking cycles of incarceration, improving wellbeing, and addressing factors that contribute to gendered experiences of criminalisation.

The WILO program sits within the Criminal Law and Drug Outreach team, which also includes our Neighbourhood Justice Centre service, our Drug Outreach Lawyer program and our Criminal Law Private Practice.

The Deputy Managing Lawyer leads FLS’s work in gender-responsive and feminist criminal lawyering and the development of practice-based expertise on the gendered impact of criminalisation on women, trans and non-binary people and the intersection between gender, women’s criminalisation and harm reduction.