Job description
- Melbourne CBD location
- April start
Women’s Legal Service Victoria (Women’s Legal) is seeking an experienced Occupational Health and Safety Consultant to provide strategic guidance and support the embedding of an OH&S approach in project activities focused on preventing gendered violence in the workplace.
Legal Workplaces Ending Gendered Violence, supported by WorkSafe’s WorkWell Respect Fund, will make legal workplaces in Victoria safer and more equal for women and people from marginalised communities.
Your role
Working with a collaborative project team, you will:
- Provide strategic guidance on how embedding an OH&S approach can strengthen responses to gender based violence.
- Establish a community of practice for Health and Safety Representatives.
- Provide subject matter expertise for capacity building resources with a focus on OH&S.
- Provide recommendations on OH&S barriers and enablers in the context of gendered violence in the legal sector.
The project will commence 1 April 2024, and be completed by 30 March 2025.
Our Purpose
To improve outcomes for all women, with a specific focus on victim-survivors of family violence by:
- Providing high quality legal services for Victorian women who are disadvantaged or marginalised by structural and systemic barriers.
- Assisting women and professionals that work with women, to better understand the law and navigate the legal system safely.
- Advancing gender equality by challenging unsafe and discriminatory policies and laws and informing and advocating for legal and policy initiatives that respect and promote the rights of women.
Our culture
We’re continually building on our culture of inclusivity, collaboration and safety so our teams and individuals thrive. Our values are more than words – they’re actions we take together.
Together, we are:
Authentic: We are reliable, trustworthy and transparent about how we work. We reflect on our work and take responsibility for our actions.
Collaborative: We are stronger when we work together. By sharing power and privilege with diverse voices, we achieve better outcomes. We respond to requests for help with generosity.
Courageous: We are brave, resilient and face challenges with integrity. We unapologetically advocate for our goals and back one another to take considered risks to increase our impact.
Inclusive: We believe respect, equality and opportunity must be afforded equitably and to everyone. We understand this will require critical reflection on where power lies and how it functions, and active effort to disrupt it.
Purposeful: Our services respond to the community, laws and people we work with. We value curiosity and relish opportunities to improve our work.
Project deliverables and tender process
Detailed information about the project, scope of work, required deliverables, and request for quote process are available on our website: womenslegal.org.au/careers.
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Proposals are due by the advertised closing date.