Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $110,357 - $127,333
Grade: WVR 4.2
Occupation: Legal
Location: Hume - Wodonga
Reference: VG/VLA/RSD/1879292
About the role
As our Deputy Managing Lawyer, you'll oversee the continued expansion of high-quality legal aid services in Wodonga, making a positive difference in the lives of Victoria's Ovens Murray communities.
Your role will include building and strengthening community relationships and partnerships in the Wodonga region, and coordinating services with courts, community legal centres, private practitioners and non-legal services across the region.
You will be managing complex legal cases and work with our Regional Manager (Goulburn Region) and Administrative Services Manager to build, lead and supervise an engaged legal team in Wodonga, ensuring the Ovens Murray community receives the legal assistance they deserve.
Our Wodonga team is also seeking a junior lawyer. Whether you're newly admitted or have some experience, we encourage you to apply! To explore this opportunity, please click the link below - Lawyer.
This role is based at our Wodonga office on Wiradjuri Country.
About you
As our ideal candidate, you will possess:
Don't meet every requirement? At VLA, we understand that your work and life experiences can be just as valuable. If you're excited about this role but your CV doesn't align perfectly with our job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or one of our many other opportunities.
Why Wodonga?
Wodonga is a busy, fast- growing and sophisticated regional city. Its schools and universities are highly rated, and opportunities abound for business and creative endeavours supported by communities across the twin Murray River cities Albury-Wodonga in an environment which offers respite to some cost-of-living pressures.
About Victoria Legal Aid
We provide legal representation to those who need it most. With over 1400 staff employed in 16 offices across Victoria, we help people with their legal problems by providing information, advice and education with a focus on the prevention and early resolution of legal problems.
Our clients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds and foster a work culture that's inclusive as well as diverse. Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the people we serve.
Employee benefits
How to apply
To be considered for this role, please submit your current resume and a cover letter.
If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch with our team.
For further information, please review the attached position description or contact Erica Molyneaux, Regional Manager on (03) 5823 6200 or [email protected].
No agency applications will be accepted.
Applications close by 11.59pm on Thursday 28 August 2025.
Other relevant information
It is a requirement that staff attend for office-based days at their primary work location. In line with this requirement, interstate applications will be considered only where the candidate is able and willing to relocate to Victoria, unless part of a border community.
VLA is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first.