Senior Career Educator

• Full-time continuing appointment
• Remuneration range $112,314 to $124,193 pa
• Toowoomba campus

Building on its strengths as Australia’s leading regional University, UniSQ’s vision is to be renowned for innovation and excellence in education, student experience, research, and engagement. Guided by our core values of respect, integrity and excellence, the University’s Strategic Plan 2021-2025 outlines our commitment to creating and sharing knowledge, transforming lives, and solving the problems that matter to our world.

We are currently seeking the expertise of a Senior Career Educator to work within our Career Education team. This key role will support our current and prospective students in their career development, delivers career and employability research and information into curriculum, and leads age-appropriate career education outreach initiatives and activities for students and their influencers. This role is integral in supporting people to make strong career-decisions, to enhance their employability, to strengthen student graduates’ outcomes, and supporting people on their journey to have more fulfilling careers and lives.

Who you are:

• An enthusiastic educator with a passion for career education, and an appreciation of the benefits of life-long learning;
• A strong communicator with an ability to empathise and provide workable solutions to assist and support our students as they progress through their studies.

What you’ll do

The Senior Career Educator is a key role within the Career Education Team (part of Support For Learning), and functions to provide support to current and prospective students in their career decision-making, career planning, and overall career education through counselling, career conversations, career development activities and teaching.

The Senior Career Educator will:

• Provide a suite of best-practice career counselling and career education services to current and prospective students from diverse backgrounds to benefit students in their career decision-making, including but not limited to, career counselling, career education and career assessment through face-to-face and distance modes, and triage.
• Develop and provide high quality career education/ training packages to inform and empower individuals and groups reflective of best practice teaching and learning pedagogical practice.
• Design and deliver program activities and theory in accordance with professional standards, program documentation and evaluation requirements, maintaining currency of career development and industry knowledge to ensure education programs and advice is informed and appropriate.

What will help you succeed

• A relevant degree qualification and eligibility for and/or registration as a Career Professional with the Career Industry Council of Australia.
• Demonstrated experience in providing career counselling and career education services including conducting triage, career development initiatives, career counselling, career education, career assessment and appropriate interventions to people from diverse backgrounds.
• Proven ability to liaise effectively with a range of stakeholders, including internal and external stakeholders, to establish and maintain effective relationships, and to work as a part of a multidisciplinary team.

For further information about this role, please contact William Wragg, Manager (Career Education) via +61 7 3470 4182 or [email protected]

The University offers a range of different ways of working and connecting across our physical and virtual spaces to meet the needs of our students, partners and community. We value diversity and strive to foster an inclusive environment that is underpinned by our values and champions, embraces and respects differences.

We support and encourage applications from all diversity groups. With an increasingly diverse workforce, we understand that careers may be placed on hold or limited throughout many life circumstances.

Find out more about UniSQ at www.unisq.edu.au

Reference No: 0004_01/24

Term: Full-time continuing appointment (36 hrs/week)

Location: Toowoomba

Salary: Total remuneration range of $112,314 to $124,193 pa (includes salary range of $94,900 to $104,937 pa, employer superannuation contributions of 17% of salary and annual leave loading)

Closes: Friday 26 January 2024

At UniSQ we are united by our core values of Respect, Integrity and Excellence, which guide our daily actions and decision-making.

To be considered for this position, you will need to have the right to work in Australia.

If you know that this role is right for you, please submit your current resume together with a two-page (maximum) statement, outlining your skills and experience relative to ‘Who we’re looking for’ in the position description.

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