About CareerSeekers

CareerSeekers is a non-profit social enterprise working with leading employers to create paid, professional internship opportunities for people from refugees and asylum seeking backgrounds. We help unleash their talent in Corporate Australia, while assisting employers to realise meaningful diversity aspirations. We work with both experienced professionals eager to reignite their career in Australia, and university students seeking a pathway to graduate employment.

We have a track record of delivering outstanding results for both participants and employers. Around 80 of Australia’s most well-known employers host our participants and nearly 90% of participants secure ongoing professional employment beyond their internship.

About the Role

Do work that matters.

The Advisor role is key to ensuring CareerSeekers delivers positive experiences and beneficial outcomes for our participants and employment partners.

Advisors support a caseload of participants as they progress through the CareerSeekers program. They also work closely with managers of interns, to make sure they are equipped to host their intern. Advisors may also work with central human resources contacts for some smaller employment partner relationships.

Responsibilities include:

• Assessing the suitability of prospective participants
• Coaching participants in the lead-up to internships, plus facilitating some group training
• Developing profiles for participants, highlighting their skills and past experience, for consideration by employment partners
• Briefing managers and other employer representatives on the CareerSeekers programs
• Ensuring the internship program integrity is maintained, through setting objectives, reviewing intern progress reports, and maintaining regular contact with the intern and their manager

This role requires regular travel to employment partner offices and sites. CareerSeekers has a hybrid work week with set office days.

This role reports to the Program Manager/Director and works closely with a team of other Advisors and Seniors Advisors.

About you

• You are excited about supporting people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds to achieve professional success
• You thrive in a fast paced environment where your persistence leads to positive results
• You can lean on your own professional experience to share insights about corporate culture
• You understand the realities of working in a small organisation. You are flexible, take ownership of work and are persistent in finding solutions to challenges
• You have strong communication, organisational, administrative and computer skills (ideally in Google suite, Salesforce and MS Office), with strong attention to detail

What We Offer

This is a rewarding role with a successful and growing purpose-driven organisation, and part of a small and close-knit team.

The role provides an opportunity to have real, tangible impact on the lives of people from refugee and asylum seeking backgrounds aspiring to a professional career. Be inspired by the life journeys of the amazing people in our program, work with our corporate partners supporting their diversity and inclusion initiatives and build your professional network.

This role is SCHADS Level 3.3 ~ $77.5K per annum plus 11.5% superannuation

CareerSeekers staff also receive professional development opportunities, competitive remuneration with NFP salary packaging benefits and annual leave loading.

This role is a full time role, but a part time position will be considered for the right candidate.

How to Apply

Please click "Apply Now" to submit your application, including your CV and a cover letter.

For enquiries about the role, please contact Dung Tran on 0409 715 470 or email [email protected] using the subject line: Advisor - Sydney / Melbourne enquiry via EthicalJobs.