Placement Advisor

1 week ago

Melbourne, Australia Ikon Full time

**About Ikon**

Ikon is a private Institute of Higher Education focused on Art Therapy, Early Childhood Education, Counselling, and Psychotherapy. Our purpose is to propel individuals towards life-altering futures. We do this by fostering curiosity and self-development through meaningful learning experiences.

Ikon operates nationally with campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide, as well as Distance Education. It currently has around 600 domestic and international students across its 3 Bachelor programs.

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**About the role**

The Placement Advisor manages and administers student placements, facilitates a positive placement experience for the students and maintains a solid ongoing relationship with host organisations.

A substantial part of this role will be to grow and maintain the network of host organisations. This role is the key contact point for students, industry partners and staff requiring advice about student placements.

**About you**

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**Key Responsibilities**
- Identify and onboard host organisations with placement agreements and build placement partnerships for Ikon students nationally.
- Maintain rapport with host organisations, including regular check-ins throughout the placement.
- Promote Ikon courses to the host organisations.
- Develop internal and external stakeholder relationships that benefit all parties involved in placement
- host organisations, students, ikon staff, clinical lecturers and clinical supervisors.
- Lead the review of placement processes and implement strategies in response to students’ and the host organisations’ feedback, to ensure quality assurance and continuous improvement.
- Provide general information to placement students at least two weeks before the commencement date.
- Design and deliver placement orientation workshops for the enrolled students at least one week before the commencement.
- Organise a 1:1 interview (15 minutes per student) with each placement student to assign host organisation at the beginning of each trimester.
- Manage student risks and concerns identified during the Mid-Trimester Review (MTR) by placement lecturers or the host organisations.
- Respond to placement enquiries from students and host organisations.

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**Education, Experience and Skills**:

- Bachelor qualification or higher in an area related to the role.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and a positive attitude.
- Ability to effectively work within a team towards achieving high-quality outcomes.
- Demonstrated experience in communicating effectively with various people at varying levels, internal and external to an organisation.

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**Why work with Ikon?**
- Work-life balance
- Training and development opportunities
- A positive culture and fun team
- Paid birthday leave

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**Diversity & Inclusion**

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**Next steps**:

- We are only able to consider applicants with the right to live and work in Australia

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