• Permanent Full-Time Position (PT Considered)
• Ongoing Position
• Salary Range: $113,414.69 – $118,428.20 depending on skills and experience, plus 14% superannuation

JOB DESCRIPTION

Consumer Action Law Centre (CALC) is a not-for-profit community legal centre who provides legal advice and financial counselling services to vulnerable and disadvantaged people.

We are recruiting a Senior Insurance and Disaster Recovery Lawyer at our growing Community Legal Centre to provide specialist legal expertise in disaster-related insurance, as well as broader insurance law and disaster-related legal issues.

The Senior Insurance and Disaster Recovery Lawyer role is critical to connecting Consumer Action with our sector colleagues out in disaster impacted communities and providing timely and expert legal help to workers and consumers impacted by disasters. This role also connects across Consumer Action’s program areas and provides expertise and insights to support our policy and advocacy work.

Specifically, the senior insurance and disaster recovery lawyer will:

• Provide authoritative legal advice on disaster recovery issues focusing on insurance matters and other financial and consumer matters related to disaster recovery.
• Manage a complex caseload of disaster recovery and insurance matters, including legal analysis, strategy, negotiation and resolution.
• Prepare high‑quality legal documents including written advice, briefs, submissions, correspondence and settlement agreements.
• Represent the organisation in relevant courts or tribunals and participate in mediations, conferences and negotiations.
• Identify systemic and strategic issues arising from legal work, and working with CALC’s policy and campaigns team, contribute to policy and advocacy activities to pursue systemic reforms.
• Work and collaborate with CALC’s engagement and learning team to help develop and deliver legal training and online legal resources targeted at community members impacted by disasters and their workers.
• Contribute to capability building by sharing legal knowledge, contributing to the development and production of resources and training to enhance organisational skills, and mentoring junior lawyers where required.
• Other tasks as directed, which may include a broader insurance practice of work.

THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT WILL HAVE:

• Qualified legal practitioner holding, or eligible to hold, a current unrestricted Victorian Practising Certificate (Mandatory).
• Substantial post‑admission experience in insurance law, civil litigation, and dispute resolution.
• Demonstrated experience providing legal advice and managing complex matters
• Demonstrated experience running legal matters through tribunals, courts or external dispute resolution services.

REWARDS AND BENEFITS

• Join a highly engaged, supportive and motivated team
• Additional end of year leave
• Salary packaging available
• Superannuation paid on unpaid parental leave
• 16 weeks parental leave,
• Purchased leave scheme available
• Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities

About CALC

Consumer Action is an independent, not-for-profit consumer organisation with deep expertise in consumer and consumer credit laws, policy and direct knowledge of people’s experience of modern markets in Victoria. We work for a just marketplace, where people have power and business plays fair. We make life easier for people experiencing vulnerability and disadvantage in Victoria, through financial counselling, legal advice, legal representation, policy work and campaigns.

Consumer Action Law Centre is committed to building a diverse workforce. We strongly encourage applications from First Nations people, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people of all ages, and LGBTIQA+ people.

If we can make any adjustments or modifications to standard recruitment processes that will support and enable your application, please contact us at recruitment@consumeraction.org.au using the subject line: Senior Insurance and Disaster Recovery Lawyer enquiry.

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