Youth Consultants

2 days ago

Ballarat, Australia Parkhouse Bell Full time

Assist young people to find meaningful sustainable employment
- Based in Ballarat or Maryborough, Vic
- Competitive salary offered with large national organsation

**About the organisation**

Our client is a leading employment and training provider that strives to empower people and communities to be effective and productive, by running multiple frontline job search and training services.

By working closely with employers to create bespoke recruitment and training solutions, our client supports thousands of people living with an illness, injury, or disability, who face personal barriers and considerable challenges entering the workforce and maintaining a job.

**About the opportunity**

As a Youth Consultant, you will form part of a team that get a real buzz out of helping people develop and achieve their end goal of gaining further skills and sustainable employment.

You will manage and mentor your own caseload of jobseekers aged between 15 and 24 years, assisting them to overcome personal barriers and then transition them into meaningful employment.

You will be professional and able to work within procedural guidelines, using a database to log details, notes and create progress reports on each client. In addition, you will be required to source job opportunities for your clients within the local community through business development activities and networking. The role is targeted and has KPIs around sustainable job placements that meet clients’ needs and expectations.

**To be successful you should have**:

- Demonstrated experience working within the target driven environment
- The ability to mentor and coach jobseekers through the job search process
- Demonstrated qualities of resilience, empathy, integrity and compassion
- A results and outcomes focused approach and the ability to work to KPIs and targets
- Excellent time management and organisational ability
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Any experience working within the employment services sector, within Jobactive, Workforce Australia, TTW or Disability Employment Services will be highly regarded but not essential
- An insight and understanding into the significant barriers facing people living with a disability and the long-term unemployed
- Excellent networking skills and be willing to conduct business development activities with local business and community organisations
- The ability to obtain a clear check police and working with children’s check

**Applications**:
**resume in Word format** through the “Apply” button. For a confidential discussion about this opportunity, please contact Samantha Smith on 0405 248 406.

**_About Parkhouse Bell:_**
- Parkhouse Bell is a recruitment and executive search consultancy that specialises in the niche sectors of Employment, Vocational Education, NDIS / Disability and Community Services and Allied Health, that has been operating across Australia since 2008. _
- We partner with organisations to conduct executive search and selection campaigns that identify Australia’s best talent across these markets. Our appointments into senior management and executive positions, enable our clients to achieve organisational, financial, and future growth objectives._

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