Gradwise Career Coach

Flexible Working Arrangements
- Are you someone with a desire to have varied & uniquely fulfilling role?
- Competitive salary package, employee benefits & genuine opportunities for growth

**About the Company**

GradWISE, in partnership with Victorian, NSW and ACT Universities, is a division of the WISE Employment that aims to provide expertise and support to university students, living with disabilities. Their goal is to empower these students by removing barriers and supporting them to find a pathway into sustainable employment.

WISE Employment is a flourishing not-for-profit organisation that is incredibly passionate about supporting local communities. Through our current well-established programs we have been successful at making a difference in many local communities. Our successful programs help remove barriers that local community members experience when searching and securing gainful employment.

**About the role**

The main purpose of this rare role is to support students that have identified as living with a physical or mental health condition or injury to build key skills and confidence that increases social and economic participation and lead to gainful employment at a graduate or an entry level.

As a Career Coach for GradWISE, your key responsibilities are to:

- Coach and develop participants in relation to their future career potential
- Create and implement a roadmap for each participant to assist in developing a portfolio. This may include mentoring, internships and other extracurricular activities
- Utilise the neuroscience tools available to assess a participant's profile. This will include understanding their strengths, potential area's for development and the type of work they would be most suited to

This role will be primarily working from home, however it will also see you working across other WISE locations.

**About you**
- A genuine want, need and passion to help and support individuals who have identified themselves as living with a mental and/or physical health condition
- Experience in working closely with and coaching individuals to achieve sustainable careers. Ideally coaching individuals who identify as living with a physical or mental health condition
- Supporting participants manage their individual vocational rehabilitation 'wellness' plan including identifying potential employment opportunities
- The confidence to successfully engage and facilitate group workshops
- Experience, exposure or a passion for recruitment and marketing would be ideal
- The ability and skill to drive results through building strong relationships and having sound knowledge
- Support in continuing to grow this program
- Flexibility in hours worked is required and reasonable out of hours work may be required from time to time and to work in other locations where reasonable and necessary. WISE is committed to ensuring all of our employees remain as safe a possible during COVID-19 and we follow all required state legislation and guidance in relation to COVID-19

**What we offer?**

At WISE our employees are at the heart of everything we do and we want to ensure that we support our employees by providing a flexible, fun and vibrant working environment. We ensure that you have both the freedom and support that is required to get the job done well.

As well as providing adequate training to ensure our employees are empowered to support our mission. We also offer a number of benefits, to name only a few:

- This role will be offered a Car/Travel Allowance
- A mobile phone and laptop
- Flexibility with a strong understanding of work/life balance
- Competitive salary packaging
- Genuine opportunity for career growth through training and personal development
- Access to a discount platform

**How can I apply?**

If you want to make a difference and join a long-standing and successful not for profit organisation then

In order to be the successful applicant you must have the right to work in Australia, a current driver's license, satisfy a national police clearance check and Working With Children Check requirements and be double vaccinated.