Employment Consultant

Full time positions - immediate start
- Excellent salary, benefits and workplace culture
- Work close to home

Do you want to make a difference and give back to your community?
- Are you a results driven customer service professional?
- Do you have a natural affinity to build relationships?
- Do you enjoy the challenge of reaching targets?

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you

As an Employment in our
**Disability Employment Services** team, you will be working with disadvantaged job seekers to assist them in finding and maintaining secure employment. You will be identifying employment opportunities with employers, build and maintain those relationships and provide ongoing support for both your customers and employers.

**Locations available**:

- **Richmond**:

- **Prahran**

**About WISE**

WISE Employment is a not-for-profit organisation that is committed to providing quality employment, training and support to disadvantaged members of our community. We aim to inspire, transform and empower people by connecting them with employers who care. WISE also operates two highly successful socially inclusive social enterprises along with a range of other programs and services aligned to the needs in the community.

**The role**:

- Provide customer-centric one-on-one support/case management to job seekers
- Build rapport to understand their interests, skills and experience
- Identifying and assess barriers towards employment and health management
- Identify additional support requirements they might need, and liaise with the relevant stakeholders to make them available
- Source employment opportunities with potential employers, build and maintain those relationships
- Network, develop and build relationships with potential employers
- Ongoing post-placement support ensuring job seeker maintains employment
- You will provide an outstanding level of customer service; motivating, encouraging and supporting our customers through their journey

**Skills/Requirements**:

- Customer service experience in recruitment/sales or service delivery roles including stakeholder engagement/management
- Outstanding communication skills, verbal and written
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Solutions focused, ability to multitask with good attention to detail
- Positive, flexible and resilient attitude
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Have the right to work in Australia
- Be fully vaccinated against COVID19
- Satisfy requirements of National Police Check
- Hold a current Drivers Licence & Working with Children Check

**Why WISE?**
- Join a growing organisation making a difference in the community
- Great workplace culture, a collaborative and professional team that cares about their people
- Competitive salary package including base salary, superannuation and not-for-profit salary packaging
- Company mobile phone and laptop
- Reward and recognition initiatives
- Ongoing focus on learning and development, career progression
- Access to exclusive retail benefits and discounts
- Access to a Diversity Day and the ability to purchase additional annual leave
- Access to various healthy lifestyle initiatives and benefits

**_Please ensure you include a cover letter stating your residential location._