Youth Employment Coach

1 week ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia SYC Full time $81,900 per year

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

As a Youth Employment Coach, you will actively support young people to secure sustainable employment.

The Transition to Work (TtW) program provides intensive pre-employment support to improve the work readiness of young people and to help them into work (including apprenticeships or traineeships) or education.

In this 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. Day to day activities will include:

  • Manage the end-to-end process of a caseload of young people
  • Actively engage with both employers and young people
  • Develop an appropriate job plan
  • Provide intensive, individual pre-employment support
  • Develop and maintain strong links with local businesses and education/training providers

About You

In this role, you will be able to apply your positive and outcome driven attitude to support young people in securing sustainable employment outcomes. You will be a great team-player to deliver quality services and collaboratively achieve client outcomes. The successful candidate will demonstrate:

  • Experience working with disengaged young people, ability to build rapport that leads to successful outcomes
  • Ability to communicate, liaise and build networks with schools, education, employment/industry, and community agencies in a professional manner
  • Results driven, passionate about performance and able to meet/exceed KPIs
  • Demonstrate outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to understand appropriate behaviours with young people, and young people with diverse needs and/or backgrounds.

Key screening requirements:

  • Working with Children Check and National Police Check
  • Be eligible to work in Australia

Additional benefits

  • Additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
  • Salary package up to $15,900 each Fringe Benefit Tax (FBT) year, plus additional salary packaging  of $2,650 towards meals and accommodation.
  • Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
  • Discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Wellbeing leave

*Qualifying periods and terms apply.

About us

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.

To learn more about us, visit our website:

To apply please click the Apply Now button.

If you have any questions, please

SYC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud of our diverse workforce. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with disability to apply. If you require assistance completing your application, please contact our recruitment team who will be happy to support you via 

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