Employability Consultant

5 days ago

Footscray, Australia Victoria University Full time

Student-focused job coaching and building connection to industry
- Hybrid Flexibility - WFH 2 days per week
- Make a positive impact on the lives of our students

**About Us**:
At Victoria University, our aim is to be a global leader in dual-sector learning and research by 2028. Join us on the journey and help us achieve our strategic drives embedded in our Strategic Plan 2022-2028: Start well, finish brilliantly. One of the drivers “Thriving place to Study and Work” will enable us to continue to create places that our students and staff love to belong and feel immense pride.

**About the role**:
This role is focused on working with students to provide career advice and coaching support to assist them in securing new opportunities, work experiences and employment. Through the delivery of appointments, workshops and programs, the position aims to connect students with valuable opportunities and help build talent pools.

Duties may include:

- Manage the daily functioning of the Career Hub Service and ensuring that services are delivered efficiently to meet student needs.
- Contribute to the development and implementation of projects and initiatives that aid students in securing employment opportunities, work experiences and internships.
- Create and maintain a talent pool of students by identifying promising students and graduates, fostering their development, and working with the Career Hub team to connect them with relevant opportunities.
- Proactively engage with student communities to promote the service and showcase the value and impact of the Career Hub services in supporting their career and employment aspirations.

This is a full-time role an a HEP6, $82,372 - $89,161 +17% superannuation, classification working 36.75 per week over a fixed-term contract period (until 23/12/24).

**About You**:

- Expertise in a career development, employability or graduate recruitment.
- Ability to deliver employment outcome focused projects from end-to-end, ideally within a dual sector environment
- Proven ability to navigate various communication styles and build strong connections within a diverse team, promoting a cohesive and supportive atmosphere
- Demonstrates practical leadership experience or exhibits strong leadership qualities in various contexts.

**What We Offer**:
**How to Apply**:

- A brief cover letter outlining your interest in the role
- Your curriculum vitae/resume,
- Your responses to the Key Selection Criteria (1-4 only) listed in the Position Description
- Evidence of applicable qualifications, licences and registrations

**Application Closing Date: Wednesday the 21st of February 2024 (11:59pm AEDT)**

**Our Commitment to Protecting Country**:
Victoria University honours its deep diversity as a foundation for collaboration and social progress. We will demonstrate sensitivity in respecting First Nation perspectives. We will ensure that we respect our Indigenous voices and commit to sustainable Protecting Country. We will take leadership responsibility, in all that we do, to improve the health and wellbeing of our local and global communities, and the planet that we share.

Victoria University (VU) is the University of the West.

For more than 100 years, Victoria University (VU) has offered accessible education to students in Melbourne’s west and beyond.

We are one of Australia’s few dual-sector universities, with currently over 40,000 enrolled vocational and higher education students studying across our campuses.

Our moral purpose is to provide vocational and higher education that transforms the lives of students and the communities we serve. Our values are a living set of actions that underpin our moral purpose.

The VU Values are that we are always:

- welcoming
- ethical
- shaping the future
- together.

This is the VU Way. We are always WEST.

At VU we believe diversity is a strength - the more diverse perspectives, identities, cultural backgrounds, ages and experience of our students and staff, the better our working environment, research and educational experience of our students.

With a culturally diverse population of students and staff from a wide range of backgrounds, we strive to foster a welcoming and inclusive environment where all students and staff are respected, valued and enabled to thrive.

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