• HeartWorks - Brisbane.
• Do you have a background in employment, training and education services?
• Be part of an organisation that makes a difference in the community.
• This position provides an opportunity to grow into a project management role.

About the organisation

Rosies is a Brisbane-based homelessness service that has operated for 36 years. It provides connection and community through street outreach services at 14 Branches in Queensland with a significant presence in and around Brisbane.

About the program

The HeartWorks program provides necessary support for people who experience social and economic exclusion to be ‘fast-tracked’ into meaningful employment. HeartWorks engages with Brisbane’s homeless community to recruit potential participants, and provide support, training and a pathway to employment.

Following successful completion, participants will be linked into pledged jobs by employer partners in the construction, transport and logistics industries.

About the role

The Employment Mentor will be responsible for providing tailored services to improve work-readiness of disadvantaged jobseekers, and engaging with employers to identify job opportunities to support these jobseekers transition successfully into employment.

This is a full-time contract role.

An attractive salary, plus superannuation and salary packaging is offered, together with ongoing professional and career development.

Candidate Requirements

To be successful in this role, candidates will require:

• Demonstrated experience (or capacity) to improve job-readiness of disadvantaged jobseekers into employment.
• Proven success in achieving employment outcomes for disadvantaged jobseekers.
• The ability to successfully communicate, liaise and network with employers to identify vacancies and to develop ongoing service relationships and partnerships.
• Excellent interpersonal, teamwork and written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders in government, the private and the community sectors.
• Personal drive, passion and commitment to achieve the best outcomes for the people HeartWorks is seeking to assist.

If you have what it takes and have a passion to use your skills to build and maintain a platform that will enable delivery excellence in the present, and growth of our 'inclusion' activities into the future, we would love to hear from you.

An Attractive Salary plus salary packaging is offered, together with ongoing professional and career development.

What HeartWorks can offer you:

• A comprehensive Induction and Orientation program
• Ongoing role related training and development
• An organisation that lives their values, through our day to day work
• A welcoming and supportive environment

How to Apply

For further information please contact Rob Auger, Manager Operations Manager Employment Services on 0438 607 959.

Rosies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. We celebrate and welcome all people regardless of ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, sexuality, disability or religious affiliation.

Rosies takes child protection seriously. We undertake multiple screening processes including appropriate reference and background checks, Working with Children Check and police checks to ensure the protection of children and young people in our care.

You are required to meet the behaviour standards outlined in our Code of Conduct.