Position Number: 0057307
Location: Parkville
Role type: Full-time; Continuing
Department: Student and Scholarly Services
Salary: UOM 6 – $96,459 – $104,413 p.a. plus 17% super
- Enhancing student success with personalised career support and innovative employability programs.
- Empowers diverse student cohorts with tailored career strategies, ensuring impactful employability outcomes.
- Brilliant benefits and a flexible hybrid work environment!
About the Role
The Senior Adviser, Careers and Employability provides high-quality learning support and tailored advice to enhance students’ career planning and employability skills through individual guidance and group-learning initiatives. The role designs, delivers, and evaluates programs for diverse student cohorts, ensuring inclusivity and alignment with industry and academic needs.
Your responsibilities will include:
- The Senior Adviser, Careers and Employability provides high-quality learning support and tailored advice to enhance students’ career planning and employability skills through individual guidance and group-learning initiatives. The role designs, delivers, and evaluates programs for diverse student cohorts, ensuring inclusivity and alignment with industry and academic needs. Collaborating with Student Success, Academic Divisions, and enrichment groups, the position fosters engagement, leadership, and employability outcomes.
- Contribute to the development, delivery and evaluation of careers and employability central service programs and activities; focusing on enabling students to access, prepare and make the most of opportunities to build employability and supporting their career planning, transition and workplace readiness.
- Liaise and collaborate with key stakeholders on the provision of targeted support and programs for assigned cohorts that, where possible, are relevant to stage of study and discipline and / or industry sector.
- Deliver learning support programming through group, one on one and online modes to enable students to fully leverage opportunities for career and employability development (self-awareness and knowledge, skills development, and presentation of self).
Who we are looking for
The ideal candidate demonstrates exceptional interpersonal skills, building strong relationships with diverse groups, including international students and University stakeholders. With a client-centred approach, they thrive in a dynamic service environment, excel in time management and organisational skills, and deliver responsive services, supported by outstanding written and verbal communication abilities.
You will also have:
- A tertiary qualification in a relevant discipline and / or an equivalent mix of education and relevant experience
- Demonstrated experience in a service environment with a theoretical and practical knowledge of careers and employability program delivery, including individual advising and group learning.
- Demonstrated experience in training and workshop facilitation, with the ability to engage the audience across multiple modes of delivery, including group and virtual interaction.
- Proven ability to learn and implement new systems and procedures, with experience in contributing to process improvement.
For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements please refer to the attached PD.
This role requires the successful candidate to undergo and maintain an up-to-date Working with Children Check. This is essential to guarantee a secure environment for all individuals at the University. In the case the selected candidate doesn't have a valid Working with Children Check, they will be able to apply for the WWCC as part of the initial onboarding procedures.
Please note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. This role requires current valid work rights for Australia.
Your new team – Student and Scholarly Service
Student and Scholarly Services provides student administration and services from recruitment and point of enquiry to graduation. This team also delivers wellbeing and scholarly services to students and staff.
What we offer you!
In addition, we offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services, and discounts on graduate courses. For more information check out our benefits page!
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The University of Melbourne values the unique backgrounds, experiences, and contributions that each person brings to our community and welcomes and celebrates diversity. First Nations people, those identifying as LGBTQIA+, parents, carers, people of all ages, abilities, and genders, and people of diverse ethnicity, nationality, and faith are encouraged to apply. Our aim is to create a workforce that reflects the diversity of the community in which we live. For more information please visit our Diversity and Inclusion page.
We are dedicated to ensuring barrier free and inclusive practices to recruit the most talented candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments, please contact the employee listed on the first page of the Position Description found below, with an email containing your name and contact details for a confidential discussion. Please ensure your email is titled "Reasonable Adjustments Request".
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants
We aspire to be the University of choice for Indigenous Australians, with unprecedented investment to attract, nurture, and retain Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and staff. Tangible support through a range of programs and initiatives will ensure that you personally succeed and flourish while at the University of Melbourne.
For further information, including our 2023-2027 Indigenous strategy please visit -https://about.unimelb.edu.au/reconciliation/murmuk-djerring
Join Us!
If you feel this role is right for you, please apply with the following documents:
- Resume
- Cover Letter outlining your interest and experience
Please note that you are not required to respond to the selection criteria in the Position Description.
Please ensure that you apply through the Apply Now button at the bottom of this advertisement. However, if you have any questions regarding the recruitment process, please feel free to contact Walid via email at hr-careers@unimelb.edu.au, ensuring that you include the Position Number and the Job Title as the subject. Please do not share your application to this email address.
If you have any particular questions regarding the job please follow the contact details listed on the Position Description.
Position Description
