Respectful Workplace Support Advisor (Identified)

Legal Aid NSW; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 117,000 - 129,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Working

Professional Growth

Wellbeing Program

Job summary

Legal Aid NSW invites applications from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people for a temporary full-time role focused on respectful workplace support. The role requires Aboriginal identity and community acceptance to ensure culturally safe services and strong relationships across offices in NSW.

You will contribute to prevention, education and early support, using lived experience to shape practical solutions and strengthen workplace safety and inclusion across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Applicants for this role must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander.
• Be willing to travel to regional and metropolitan offices as required.
• Undertake pre-employment checks such as Working with Children Check, Criminal Record Check and Conduct Service Check.

Responsibilities

• Provide culturally safe, confidential support to employees and leaders, strengthening respectful workplace behaviours.
• Apply Aboriginal lived experience and cultural knowledge to inform service design and delivery.
• Build trusted relationships and navigate sensitive conversations with empathy and professionalism.

Skills

Aboriginal lived experience

Cultural knowledge

Relationship building

Empathy

Judgement

Job description

• Use Aboriginal lived experience and cultural knowledge to provide culturally safe, confidential support and strengthen respectful workplace practices for Aboriginal employees, leaders and teams
• Salary range $116,981 - $129,492pa (plus superannuation and entitlements)
• 1 x Temporary Full-Time (up to 12 months) opportunity available based in Central Sydney office (flexible work arrangements available)

Applicants for this position must be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, identify as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, and be accepted in the community as such.

You Belong Here

Here, every role has purpose.

Whether you're delivering frontline legal services or strengthening our organisation from behind the scenes, you'll help create fairer outcomes for the people across NSW and the opportunity to share your skills, stories, and passions and to represent your mob and culture.

With over 120 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff, we are committed to creating a culturally safe workplace. We value the knowledge, skills and lived experience that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people bring to our organisation.

We promote dignity, trust, respect, and are committed to diversity and inclusion by offering recruitment and workplace adjustments.

Connect with the Legal Aid NSW Aboriginal Services Branch for a yarn.

About the Role

This is a role where being Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander is a genuine occupational requirement. This means that your lived experience, cultural knowledge and community connection is essential to succeeding in this role and the services being provided.

Respectful Workplace Support is a key part of the new Organisational Capability & Performance function, and this role ensures Aboriginal lived experience and cultural knowledge are reflected in how we design and deliver respectful workplace prevention, education and early support.

You are passionate about creating culturally safe and inclusive workplaces and bring strong relationship-building skills, sound judgement and a collaborative approach. You can provide trusted, confidential support to employees and leaders, navigate sensitive conversations with empathy and professionalism, and contribute to practical solutions that strengthen respectful workplace behaviours and positive workplace culture across Legal Aid NSW.

About You

You bring Aboriginal lived experience, cultural knowledge and a passion for creating culturally safe and respectful workplaces. You are an experienced relationship builder who can provide trusted support, navigate sensitive conversations with care and professionalism, and work collaboratively with employees, leaders and teams.

You have an understanding of the challenges and opportunities facing Aboriginal employees in the workplace and can use your insights to contribute to practical initiatives that strengthen cultural safety, inclusion and respectful workplace behaviours across the organisation.

About Legal Aid NSW

We stand beside people when they need it most.

At Legal Aid NSW, fairness isn't just a legal principle, it shapes everything we do - our culture, our services, our workplace and our decisions.

Since 1979, Legal Aid NSW has provided legal advice, support and representation in criminal, family and civil law, helping people across NSW navigate hardship and complex legal issues. Our work is challenging, but deeply meaningful.

In partnerships with LawAccess NSW, Community Legal Centres and the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT, we are located throughout the state including our Central Sydney office, 25 regional offices, and satellite and outreach offices.

Our People & Culture function plays an important role in making sure those people can access practical, reliable and responsive support when they need it.

We are modernising People & Culture

Legal Aid NSW is modernising how People & Culture works. We are building a more connected and responsive service model, using better technology, clearer service pathways and stronger insights to make HR simpler, more consistent and easier to access for employees and leaders.

Benefits of working with Legal Aid NSW

As an employee of Legal Aid NSW, you will be part of a diverse and inclusive organisation, working alongside like-minded and values driven people dedicated to justice, community impact, and delivering exceptional support and service through team and cross collaboration.

You will have access to and enjoy a variety of support and benefits so you can thrive personally and professionally. You'll love our:

Flexible Working - we are a Flex Ready certified and Carers and Employers accredited organisation. We are leading the way in offering a variety of flexible working options to uniquely support your unique work life balance.

Professional Growth - as the largest law firm in NSW we offer a variety of opportunities to enhance your career at every stage, through our Judge Bob Bellear Legal Career Pathways Program, Aboriginal Legal Career Pathways and Regional Graduate Program, ongoing learning, shadowing and mentoring, development opportunities, and secondments.

Work Health, Safety and Wellbeing - with dedicated programs, training, resources, and respectful work practices, our Wellbeing Framework ensures your physical, mental and psychosocial wellbeing matters so you feel supported, safe and holistically well.

The Role's Essential Requirements

• Applicants for this role must identify as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander. You must be able to demonstrate your Aboriginality in your application.
• Undertake relevant pre-employment checks such as Working with Children Check, Criminal Record Check and Conduct Service Check
• Be willing to travel to regional and metropolitan offices as required

We may use this recruitment to create a talent pool for similar ongoing or temporary vacancies we have over the next 18 months.

Please note:

Applicants for this position must be Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, identify as being Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, and be accepted in the community as such.

An applicant's race is a genuine occupational qualification and is authorised under Section 14(d) of the NSW Anti-Discrimination Act 1977.

Aboriginality is defined by descent through parentage, identification as being Aboriginal and being accepted in the community as such.

In the pre-screening questions you will need to provide information on how you satisfy the Aboriginality criteria. Your responses will be treated with confidence.

We're here to help

Legal Aid NSW is committed to a recruitment process that is inclusive and barrier free.
Connect with the Legal Aid NSW Aboriginal Services Branch for a yarn about the support available for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.