• Support humanitarian entrants into professional careers
  
• Unique and successful non-profit social enterprise model
  
• Full-time role
  
• Based in Melbourne CBD

ABOUT US

CareerSeekers is a non-profit social enterprise supporting Australia’s humanitarian entrants into professional careers. We work with both mid-career professionals eager to reignite their career in Australia and university students seeking a pathway to graduate employment.

Since we began operating in 2015, we have worked with over 70 of Australia’s most well known employers to create over 890 paid internship opportunities for program participants.

We are a small, hard-working and close-knit team, committed to growing our impact.

ABOUT THE ROLE

We currently have a vacancy for a full-time, Senior Advisor in Melbourne, focused on supporting participants in the mid-career stream of the program.

The primary responsibility of the role is to support a caseload of program participants, providing them with employment-related training, coaching and guidance at each stage of our program; supporting our employment partners to provide meaningful experiences for our participants; and maintaining accurate participant records in our database.

As part of a small team, this role undertakes a broad range of tasks including:

• Processing applications from asylum seekers and refugees to participate in the CareerSeekers program, including undertaking screening by phone;
• Coordinating attendance of participants at required training sessions;
• Facilitating workshops with groups of participants on a range of topics – program orientation; interview skills; internship preparation etc
• Working one on one with participants to prepare them for internships. This includes providing individual training and coaching and sharing your first-hand experience of the Australian workforce;
• Supporting participants and their managers throughout their internship at our partner organisations;
• Facilitating "Working with Refugees" briefings at employment partner organisations:

• Acting as the day-to-day liaison with nominated employment partners, ensuring participants best suited to opportunities are put forward and partners' reporting needs are met.

When COVID-19 restrictions ease, this will be an office-based role, working from our Collins St office in Melbourne’s CBD. This role reports to the Program Director (Mid-career stream).

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in this role you will need to:

• Thrive in a busy, fast-paced environment and be used to juggling multiple tasks
• Understand the expectations of corporate Australia and have at least three years work experience in a professional context
• Be flexible and understand the realities of working in a small organisation, where you need to be a doer!
• Have strong organisational, administrative and computer skills (ideally in Google suite and MS Office), with strong attention to detail
• Be able to relate to people of a culturally and linguistically diverse background
• Have a tertiary qualification (Bachelor degree or higher)
• Commit to our ethos

OUR ETHOS

• Participants first: a passion for supporting refugees and people seeking asylum to achieve professional success
• Team player: an understanding of the realities of working in a small non-profit social enterprise, including stepping up and helping out
• Hold ourselves to account: taking ownership of allocated work and showing persistence in finding solutions to challenges
• Service excellence: committed to exceeding the expectations of a range of stakeholders, including our employment partners
• Respectful: at all times, in all interactions

Please note: this role requires regular, face-to-face interaction with participants and employment partners, including on sites with mandatory vaccination requirements. As such, only applicants fully-vaccinated against COVID-19 can be considered. The successful candidate will need to provide evidence of being fully vaccinated.

WHAT WE OFFER

This is an opportunity to have real, tangible impact on the lives of people from a refugee background 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 leading diversity and inclusion initiatives and build your professional network. Be part of a successful and growing purpose-driven organisation focussed on maximising our social impact.

Guidance on salary: as a non-profit social enterprise, our salaries are comparable to equivalent roles in the non-profit sector. Salary packaging benefits are available as well as bonus paid leave at Christmas (at dates determined by CareerSeekers).