Graduate Consultant 2026 Brisbane

3 days ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Nous Group Pty. Ltd. Full time

Brisbane - on the lands of the Yuggera and Turrbal people

Are you ready to make an impact from day one?

At Nous, you'll work on projects that shape the future—helping governments, businesses, communities, and citizens thrive. From day one, you'll gain the consulting skills to make a meaningful contribution to your team and clients.

Consistently ranked as a Great Place to Work and recognised as a top consulting firm, we offer a vibrant culture where curiosity is valued, learning is continuous, and your professional growth is actively supported and celebrated.

Bring your passion, ideas, and ambition to a team that backs your development and empowers you to create lasting change.

Join us in our mission to realise a bigger idea of success.

Nous is an ideal place to start your career journey

Nous is an ideal place to start your career journey. We deliver a dynamic and varied experience across a range of sectors, practices and offers. This may include experience in data analytics, design, digital, economics, implementation, leadership, organisational performance, public policy, regulation, or strategy.

You will hit the ground running – working in project teams from day one. Our intensive graduate induction program aims to set you up for success, teaching key consulting skills and building your knowledge quickly. Your development doesn't end with induction; it continues throughout your time at Nous. This is primarily on the job in multidisciplinary teams, working closely with Nous leaders on diverse client projects, but also through targeted courses, webinars, performance check-ins, online learning, and formal learning programs.

Responsibilities

As a Graduate Consultant, you will work across a range of teams to deliver projects, including engaging clients and their stakeholders, undertaking data analysis, and assisting to prepare deliverables across a range of formats that distil analysis into clear and compelling recommendations for clients.

Ideal candidates for this role are:
  • Passionate about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and creativity.
  • Motivated to deliver high quality work and outcomes for clients and colleagues, underpinned by a consistent commitment to professionalism.
  • Intellectually flexible and curious with the ability to learn quickly across a range of subject matters and apply what you learn to real-world problems.
  • Well organised with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously.
  • Resilient with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, uncertain, and intense working environments.
  • Capable of working autonomously including by taking the initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.
  • Problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
  • Written and verbal communication skills, including clear and compelling structured thinking.
  • Interpersonal skills including the ability to provide and respond to feedback and navigate uncertain environments with clients and colleagues.
What we offer

Working at pace to deliver great quality outcomes for our clients is balanced with benefits:

  • We offer active career and professional development support, funding professional development activities and reimbursing one professional membership per year.
  • All Nousers have great flexibility around public holidays. We understand that people of different cultures, religions, and political beliefs may wish to choose to take alternative days of leave from scheduled holidays.
  • Consultants engage directly with clients on projects and colleagues at all levels of seniority.
  • Hybrid working is supported while acknowledging that the fastest learning happens when working face-to-face with clients and colleagues. Nousers receive a once-off payment to set up your WFH office.
  • A collaborative bonus that reflects company performance is available to all permanent employees.
  • Celebrating commitment to Nous by enabling access to long service leave after 5 years of employment.
  • Our clients are the driving force behind our service demand. Client demand can come in waves, our consultants flex effort and time commitment up or down.
More about usNous is a great place to work …

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 750 people working across Australia and New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people's lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities.

Nous Group is proud to be recognised as a Great Place to Work in the UK, Canada, and Australia, reflecting our expanding global influence and success. Nous consistently garners accolades as an exceptional workplace through various competitive reviews. We've been acknowledged as one of LinkedIn's Top Companies for career growth in Australia and have been awarded Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review on multiple occasions.

Nous has delivered over 10,000 projects for governments, business, and not-for-profit organisations.

As a graduate you could have the exciting opportunity to engage in projects like these

  • Implementing institution-wide changes to a research-intensive Australian university on how the university conducts research, delivers teaching and organises its administrative and corporate functions.
  • Establishing Victoria's offshore wind program to support the state to transition to net-zero emissions.
  • Working alongside victim survivors of family violence to improve the experience of court users and manage increasing demand on the system.
  • Designing a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow overseas operations.
  • Enhancing educational outcomes and equity by developing an evidence-base about how school- and student-based factors affect performance and entrench disadvantage.
  • Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student outcomes by quantifying the social return on investment of programs delivered by the organisation.
Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Nous is a flexible workplace that offers consulting opportunities on a full-time and part-time basis.

If you have experience working on complex problems, are high performing and productive working in a fast-paced environment and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia, you must have the right to work in Australia.

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.

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