Jobs
Executive Assistant
December 2024
Full time, ongoing position
Melbourne location
$98,097 annual salary, plus superannuation and salary packaging
For full details about this role, including a position description, see the Recruitment Pack.
Applications for this role close on Friday 10 January 2025 at 5.00pm.
Volunteer
Board members (Voluntary)
The Human Rights Law Centre is currently seeking one Board member, as well as expressions of interest in future Board vacancies when they arise.
Melbourne or Sydney location.
Approximately 5 hours/month time commitment.
Join a high performing and committed Board to support our fearless human rights work. Bring your passion, knowledge, values and governance and financial acumen.
For further information including how to submit an expression of interest, please see the Position Description below.
Thank you for your interest in volunteering with us and supporting human rights. Regrettably, we are only able to take on a limited number of volunteers. We want to make sure that our volunteers are properly supervised and have interesting, challenging work.
We do take law student volunteers through established programs with universities and organisations, and these programs will be advertised through the relevant organisation. Unfortunately, we do not have the capacity to take on high school work experience placements.
Resources for getting involved
We are sometimes asked for advice about how to get involved in volunteering and human rights law. Some helpful resources and tips are below:
Volunteering in community legal centres – Federation of Community Legal Centres.
Castan Centre for Human Rights Law & Progressive Law Network – Public Interest Law Careers Guide
University of Melbourne – Careers in Public Interest Law
So you want to be a human rights lawyer? RMIT Centre for Innovative Justice video
Bill Quigley’s Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice