Aboriginal Employment Mentor

3 days ago

Strathpine, Australia SYC Full time

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

SYC has been selected as a provider of Inclusive Employment Australia, a new specialist disability employment program.

SYC is a non-profit organisation with a long history of supporting people with disability to access meaningful employment, delivering a quality service, building sustainable careers. We’re deeply committed to our community working alongside clients, partners, and staff to help people succeed.

As part of this new program, we’re excited to expand our team.

The Aboriginal Employment Mentor actively engages with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander IEA participants across SYC’s Employment Services caseload. This role will benefit from providing support to motivate, upskill, and secure sustainable and compliant employment outcomes while working within a supportive and results driven team.

In this mobile 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. Key responsibilities for this role include but not limited to:

- Building relationships with employers, Aboriginal organisations and communities, Registered Training Organisations and Apprenticeship Support Australia centres
- Actively engaging with employers, key employees, and participants to secure sustainable employment outcomes.
- Attending careers, indigenous and other networking events to promote SYC IEA Employment Services
- Providing mentoring support to positively addressing challenges which may place employment at risk.

**About You**
- Previous experience working effectively with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients of all ages, including those with high level and complex needs is highly desirable
- Strong engagement skills, with the ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
- Excellent communication skills with well-developed interpersonal, verbal, and written skills, and the ability to conduct client assessments, developing case plans and case notes and report writing
- 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
- Have possession of a current valid Driver’s Licence and willingness to drive
- Be eligible to work in Australia
- Have possession of a current valid Driver’s License, willingness to drive, and your own registered vehicle with a 4-5-star ANCAP safety rating.
- Hold a tertiary qualification in coaching or mentoring, training, employment, disability or community services, or willing to actively work towards a certification.

**About SYC**

SYC exists so everyone can succeed.

A not-for-profit organisation, we invest back into the Australian community, helping tens of thousands of people every year with housing, education and employment.

Founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage, we have extended this expertise to people of all ages for more than three decades.

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