Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: $64,827 - $78,718
Grade: WVR 2.2
Occupation: Administration
Location: Melbourne - Western suburbs
Reference: VG/RSD/WYND/11882097
Make a real difference every day — join our Legal Assistant teams
Bring your skills, heart and initiative to a role where no two days are the same.
We're looking for at least eight Legal Assistants to join our growing team, supporting legal services across the Sunshine/Wyndham region and the Child Protection team based in Melbourne CBD. These roles are ideal for people who enjoy fast-paced work, care deeply about client service, and want to help people navigate tough situations with dignity and support.
You'll be part of a passionate team making a real impact in the lives of people experiencing family violence, child protection involvement, mental illness, poverty or injustice.
Why join us?
About the role
You'll work closely with lawyers, support staff, clients and court professionals to ensure our services run smoothly. Duties include:
Some roles will be based at our Sunshine offices, with regular clerking work at our Sunshine and Wyndham Law Courts, while others will work with our Melbourne CBD team supporting Child Protection matters and Wyndham Law Courts.
What we're looking for
We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences and backgrounds. You might have worked in legal support, customer service, health, education, community services, or office administration.
What's most important is that you bring:
Legal admin or court experience is great, but not essential — we'll provide training and support to help you succeed.
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.
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 an d 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.
Locations:
Ready to make a difference? Apply now and help us support access to justice in the west and beyond.
Click Apply Now and follow the instructions. You'll be asked to upload a resume and a brief cover letter setting out any relevant experience, and why you would be a great Legal Assistant at VLA. The attached position description sets out the Key Selection Criteria for this role.
In your cover letter, please specifically address Key Selection Criteria 1 from the attached position description, detailing your experience providing a broad range of administrative support in a busy environment, with the ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise effectively and meet deadlines.
We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, people with disabilities, and people who are part of the Western community our team serves.
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 Alex Forster, Administrative Services Manager, on (03) 9300 5333 or [email protected].
Applications close by 11:59pm on Sunday 14 September 2025.