Parentsnext Support Officer

**Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference?**

As a **ParentsNext Support Officer** you will have the opportunity to establish individualised employment and training pathways for parents at risk of welfare dependency, utilising external service providers, employers and RTO’s to increase parents work readiness. SYC delivers employment services at over 50 locations throughout Australia, and you’ll be working across **Dandenong and Franksto**n site.

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive and result driven team who are dedicated to our vision of wellbeing, independence and opportunity for everyone. Day to day activities will include:

- Working collaboratively to build positive relationships with employers and participants
- Actively promote and market participants to potential employers helping to create employment opportunities
- Achieving sustainable employment outcomes for participants by providing support to participants to develop skills and abilities
- Referring participants through training, counselling and other services to increase long term employment outcomes
- Actively engage with relevant stakeholders to promote ParentsNext services to potential participants to maximise direct registrations.

**About You**
- Excellent communication skills with well-developed verbal, and written skills, and the ability to prepare and conduct effective presentations.
- Self-motivation and initiative, with well-developed organisational skills and the ability to meet deadlines and attend to multiple tasks and priorities.
- Interpersonal, conflict resolution and negotiation skills along with the ability to identify innovative and lateral solutions to problems

**For this role, you will need to**:

- Be willing to complete a Working with Children Check and National Police Check
- Be eligible to work in Australia

**Why join Team SYC**?**
- Increase your pay with Salary Packaging options
- Career development opportunities
- Enjoy an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
- Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
- Be provided an additional paid personal leave
- Stay healthy with discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
- Access our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program
- Discounted gym membership for all employees
- Enjoy special benefits with Beaurepaires
- Qualifying periods and terms apply.

**About us**

SYC exists so everyone can succeed.

‍We invest back into the community, helping tens of thousands of people every year to create a life without disadvantage, to build sustainable independence and to experience wellbeing in all areas of their lives.

A non-profit human services organisation, SYC was founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage in Adelaide. We now operate nationally, supporting more than 57,000 people annually with housing, education, employment, justice, health and disability services.

We are proud to work with people who are passionate and professional, who encourage and value diversity, who are courageous, creative and, most importantly, believe in people’s potential. Our vision of wellbeing, independence and opportunity for everyone encompasses the people we work with, as well as the people who work for SYC.

**If you match the criteria above, we want to hear from you**

**We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.**

SYC is a Child Safe organisation and will require the successful applicant to complete pre-employment checks. This includes a Working with Children Check and National Police Check.