Principal Solicitor – Welfare Rights Centre – Surry Hills NSW

The Principal Solicitor is responsible for leading and maintaining the centre’s legal practice. This includes:

• ensuring compliance with all professional, regulatory and risk management obligations
• supervising legal and intake staff
• contributing to organisational leadership, strategy and law reform work
• providing high-quality legal advice, casework and representation to clients

Welfare Rights Centre is looking for someone who has:

• an unrestricted practising certificate in NSW, or is eligible to hold one
• knowledge of social security and family assistance law, policies and Centrelink’s administrative practices, or the capacity to rapidly acquire this knowledge
• a minimum five years’ experience post-admission legal experience sufficient to supervise a legal practice
• substantial experience working or volunteering in a community legal sector or Legal Aid
• experience in supervising staff and/or volunteers