Student Placement Advisor

2 days ago

Sydney, Australia Ikon Full time

**About Ikon**

Ikon is a private Institute of Higher Education focussed on the Healthcare, Early Childhood Education, and Community Services sectors. Ikon’s mission is to nurture and empower people towards meaningful careers, positively impacting the communities it serves.

Ikon operates nationally with campuses in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth, as well as online. It currently has around 600 domestic and international students across its 3 bachelor programs.

Ikon is part of the ASX-listed EDU Holding Limited Group. Learn more about Ikon here.

**About the role**

As a Placement Advisor, your role will be to work directly with students and organisational stakeholders to coordinate and negotiate ‘agency placements’ for Ikon’s Bachelor of Early Childhood Education students. You will support National students and agency partners in negotiating placement conditions and supporting all parties throughout the placement journey.

**About you**

You will need to be confident and competent in networking and relationship building skills, as well as strong time management and organisational skills to prioritise tasks.

This role sits within a collaborative and positive team culture at Ikon. If you are a team player and like to make things happen and see them through to completion, we would love to hear from you.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Work with and empower national Ikon students embarking on a community placement
- Use your interpersonal skills to establish internal and external stakeholder relationships
- Build upon existing industry partners and connections to source placements across Australia
- Research new agency partners and negotiate contractual placement agreements for Ikon students
- Be part of facilitate Ikon Placement Orientation Workshops as required
- Use your strong organisational and planning skills to multi-task and manage your workload to meet work priorities and student needs
- Ability to work part of collaborative and supportive team who values initiative and making things possible.
- Uphold professional boundaries and ensure duty of care standards are being met
- Storing and recoding all placement documentation
- Use your analytical skills to ensure quality assurance and continuous improvement

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**Education, Experience, and Skills**
- Hold a qualification in Early Childhood (e.g. Diploma or Bachelor of Early Childhood)
- A minimum of 2 years’ experience working as a room leader
- Preferably a Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
- Current knowledge and skills in the Vocational and Higher Education setting would be greatly beneficial
- An outstanding networker with the ability to build and sustain positive working relationships with industry partner.

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**Why work with Ikon?**
- Contribute to bringing our vision and mission to life: To be the first choice in Healthcare, Early Childhood Education, and Community Services. To nurture and empower people towards meaningful careers, positively impacting the communities we serve
- A niche quality provider with growth ambitions
- A supportive team and work culture
- An appreciation and respect for work-life balance
- Ongoing training and professional development opportunities
- Ability to partly work from home and benefits such as paid birthday leave

**Diversity & Inclusion**

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