Program Manager – Domestic Family Violence – Western Sydney Community Legal Centre (WSCLC)

• Full-time, permanent opportunity, 35-hour working week.
• Office based in Parramatta (2150), with flexibility across working in the offices and WFH.
• Competitive remuneration $125,000 – $130,000 base salary plus superannuation and NFP salary sacrifice benefits.
• Your primary role will be in dealing with housing issues and homelessness for some of our most vulnerable clients. You will be given the opportunity to gain specialist knowledge and improve your litigation skills.

About our partner, Western Sydney Community Legal Centre

Beaumont People is proud to be partnering with Western Sydney Community Legal Centre (WSCLC). WSCLC supports individuals who find themselves in vulnerable or disadvantaged situations and unable to successfully access or navigate the NSW justice system.

WSCLC is committed to working with the community to provide increased access and trauma informed, culturally safe support to navigate the complexity of the social justice system.

WSCLC services are focused in the areas of domestic violence, support of children in the Court systems, facilitating visits between children and parents, tenancy, home building and general legal issues.

About the Role

In this role, the key purpose is to lead, inspire and develop the Women’s Domestic Violence Court Advocacy Service (WDVCAS) team to deliver quality, person centred, strengths based, trauma informed, and culturally safe services to support women and their children who have experienced domestic or family violence.

This role reports to the CEO and will work collaboratively with key leaders to drive success.

• Operational Management: Oversee Cumberland WDVCAS operations to ensure high-quality, budget-compliant service delivery in line with WSCLC and Legal Aid policies.
• Team Leadership: Provide leadership and direction to the team, including recruitment, training, supervision, and annual appraisals with a focus on empowerment and strengths-based learning.
• Team Culture: Develop and lead a cohesive, collaborative, quality service focused team culture, ensuring staff wellbeing through the provision of clear expectations and professional boundaries, psychosocial supports, case review, debriefing and external supervision.
• Strategic Planning: Develop and implement strategic and operational plans to ensure service effectiveness and compliance with objectives and outcomes.
• Advocacy and Liaison: Undertake high-level advocacy for WDVCAS clients and contribute to legal policy reform through various forums and networks.
• Community Engagement: Develop strategies in consultation with the team to ensure WDVCAS is accessible to diverse women and children, and support engagement activities with relevant communities.
• Partnership Development: Maintain strong working relationships with key partners such as NSW Police, Local Courts, and legal services to facilitate client access.
• Administration: Ensure effective service administration, including budget management, quality standards in client information handling, and adherence to confidentiality and safety protocols.

Essential Criteria

To succeed in the transformational role, you will be an experienced leader, with a strong professional background working in the community services sector. You will also have:

• Bachelor’s degree in the community service sector, or extensive professional experience in related field.
• Proven ability to develop and lead a person-centred, strengths-based, trauma-informed, and culturally safe service culture.
• Extensive management skills across service delivery and an ability to proactively plan, organise, and implement effective systems and processes to ensure program success.
• Financial acumen to manage budgets effectively and report to funding bodies. You will work in consultation with the CEO to ensure efficient service delivery.
• Empathetic and approachable leadership style with the ability to manage professional boundaries internally and externally.
• Please note: Being a woman is a genuine occupational qualification for this position under Section 31 of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act, 1977.

Other essentials:

• Working Rights in Australia
• Working with Children Check (WWCC)
• Able to complete a Criminal Record Check

We love partnering with WSCLC, these are some of the benefits:

• Salary Sacrifice – access to generous tax savings through salary packaging.
• Flexible working – WSCLC supports flexibility and support to all employees.
• Mobile Phone & Laptop included
• Gifted leave over holiday period and paid study leave
• Access to EAP for family, personal and financial counselling
• External supervision
• 6 weeks paid parental leave
• Annual paid flu shot

How to Apply

Join us in making a difference and be part of WSCLC’s executive management team.

To be considered for this position please apply now with your resume. If you have any further questions, please contact Kaitlin at [email protected], using the subject line: Program Manager – Domestic Family Violence – Western Sydney Community Legal Centre (WSCLC) enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Beaumont People is exclusively partnering with WSCLC on this recruitment, so please send all enquiries to the above email. There is no closing date for this role, please apply as soon as possible as all applications will be reviewed as they are received.

At Beaumont People we believe a diverse workplace is a happy workplace, and we love working with organisations that feel the same way. We encourage applications from people of all different backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from CALD backgrounds and people with disabilities. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital or parental status. Should you require a reasonable accommodation to be made for your application to be assessed we would be more than happy to discuss how that can be arranged.