Career Development Consultant - Leadership

The specialist team at Curtin Student Success provide services, support, and extracurricular programs to facilitate the leadership, career and employability development, and community mindedness of Curtin students and graduates.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Career Development Consultant - Leadership to join Curtin’s Student Success Team.  You will provide a full range of services related to leadership development, with a focus on strengthening students’ skills and facilitating positive lifelong learning, assisting their transition to graduate employment or further study.

In this role you will:

• Plan, deliver, scale, evaluate and report on co-curricular Leadership Development at Curtin, including the Gamechangers Leadership Program, John Curtin Leadership Academy, John Curtin Scholarship Program and other Scholarship programs.
• Apply a Students as Partners approach to champion, support and promote opportunities for students to be co-creators of their learning and student experiences at Curtin.
• Work with the Curtin Credentials team to develop a set of leadership capabilities to inform assessments associated with Curtin micro-credentials.
• Work collaboratively with staff, students, community organisations, and industry to deliver opportunities for students to engage in curricular and co-curricular leadership development opportunities.
• Report on leadership development initiatives across the University, with a particular focus on those aligned with Curtin’s Students as Partners approach.
• Support the maintenance of our Leadership Development online presence, showcasing leadership learning opportunities, and profile associated student, alumni and staff work.

For further information on Curtin and all of our employee benefits visit https://about.curtin.edu.au/jobs/

We are looking for someone with:

• A relevant postgraduate degree qualification and understanding of leadership development programs in a Higher Education setting.
• Proven experience in the delivery of leadership or career development learning.
• Demonstrated ability in needs analysis and development of high-quality resources and learning programs for adult learners as well as knowledge and skills in a range of service delivery models appropriate to this position.
• High level effective oral and written communication competencies, including computer and data base literacy.
• Proven ability to liaise effectively with a range of other professionals and establish effective relationships, and to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Sound knowledge of current trends in employability skills, international and national industry labour market trends and developments in the delivery of career development programs and services and the research skills to maintain this knowledge.
• Demonstrated project management skills to deliver and review specific projects that enhance students’ career development learning and engage internal and external stakeholders

Desirable     

• Experience in providing careers & employment related services ideally from within the University or TAFE sector or alternatively experience within other careers services, HR or Recruitment.
• Eligibility or and/or registration as a Career professional with the Career Industry Council Australia. A strong understanding of the Professional Standards for Australian Career Development Practitioners

Please apply on-line with a cover letter and resume which addresses the criteria listed above to enable us to assess your suitability for the role.

To view a copy of the role’s Position Description, please copy and paste the following link into your browser:

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Applications close: Thursday 9th December 2021

Contact details

To apply complete the application form below, or for more information contact: [email protected]

Please apply via the attached link, we cannot accept resumes sent to the above contact.

Once you have applied, you will receive an email confirming that your application has been received by us.  If you do not receive confirmation via email, please email our team at [email protected]. Please ensure you check your spam folders for this email before contacting the team.

Inclusion and Diversity at Curtin

We are committed to ensuring that Curtin has an inclusive environment, free from harassment, in which all students, staff and the community feel respected, valued and welcome.

We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, women, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and are committed to making reasonable adjustments to enable people with disability to participate fully in our recruitment, selection and appointment processes.

We have received recognition in this area:

• Voted one of Australia’s Inclusive Employers for 2019-2020 (Diversity Council of Australia).
• Have become one of the first Universities to receive accreditation for an Elevated Reconciliation Action Plan.
• Achieved Athena Swan Bronze Accreditation (2018-2020).
• Voted 16th best workplace for new dads in Australia (HBF - Direct Advice for Dads, 2019)

Curtin reserves the right at its sole discretion to withdraw from the recruitment process, not to make an appointment, or to appoint by invitation, at any time. We reserve the right to remove the advert earlier than the date on the advert[KC3] .