Careers Advisor
Job No:
KAP262
Location:
Melbourne
About Us
Kaplan Business School (KBS) is one of Australia’s top independent education institutions, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees to over 3000 students across 4 campuses in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney. Globally, Kaplan is a giant in the international education and learning landscape with 400 campus locations in over 30 countries.
About the Role
This position of Careers Advisor, is a role, based in KBS’s largest campus in Melbourne.
The Careers Advisor is responsible for leading all aspects of the careers related services and activities for the campus, to enhance the student experience. This includes facilitating the placement of students into work placements and internships, developing and maintaining strong relationships with current and prospective employers, engaging with guest speakers and corporate partners, and the management and delivery of all careers related content, resources, events and workshops.
This is a fantastic opportunity to nurture and mentor students and have a genuine impact on a diverse cohort of students, whilst building exciting professional networks throughout corporate Australia.
Your benefits:
- Be in charge of your own destiny! This is an autonomous role allowing you to design and drive your own ideas and build your own industry relationships.
- Be part of a bigger team! You Careers Central team spans 4 states and the on-campus Student Experience team all work together towards the same goal, enhancing the Student Experience.
- Mentor and nurture the next generation of international students
- Free Education! As a KBS employee you can study one of our courses completely free of charge
- New offices and impressive campus location in Docklands
Key responsibilities:
With support from the National Careers Manager, and team members from campuses across 4 other states, you will have the opportunity to:
Relationship Management
- Actively represent Kaplan at events and industry networking events, being an industry liaison for employers wishing to engage and partner with the school.
- Foster introductions between students and employers, assisting with the co-ordination of work placements, internships, and employment.
- Active partnership development and account management of all corporate relationships and host company contacts.
Career Services
- Engage with students through 1-on-1 career coaching consultation sessions, mentoring them on their career journey
- Mentor students in their career transitions, providing employment advice and job-readiness skills training for the Australian job market.
- Placement of students into work experience opportunities and Academic Internships.
Careers Events & Workshops
- Develop an engaging schedule of on campus careers events, guest speaker forums and workshops.
- Seek out partnerships with external event providers and facilitate promotion of external career enrichment events and activities to students.
- Actively participate and attend external career events, mentoring and supporting students in their networking activities and introductions to industry contacts.
About You
To succeed in this position, you will be a positive, highly motivated and results driven candidate with confidence promoting key benefits, values and messages to a variety of different stakeholders.
In addition, the successful candidate will have:
- Previous experience working within a dynamic client facing environment developing and maintaining networks with industry partners and external stakeholders, which could include recruitment, career services, sales, business development, student experience or corporate relations.
- Excellent relationship management skills with the proven ability to broker and nurture positive outcomes and experiences.
- Previous experience delivering and facilitating events, guest speaker discussions and workshops.
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills combined, with excellent written and oral presentation skills.
- A self-motivated and innovative mindset to bring exciting new opportunities and ideas into the school.
- Ability to work under pressure, often autonomously and to prioritise work effectively without supervision.
- Positive and supportive communication style.
Our passion is helping students reach their goals through quality education. Joining our team, you’ll thrive in a rewarding work environment that is customer-focused, dynamic and innovative in spirit. If you share the same passion, please apply with a brief cover letter and detailed resume.
It is a requirement of all Kaplan employees to complete a National Police Check and hold a valid Working with Children Check in your relevant state. All costs will be covered by the employer.
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For questions please contact us at careers@kaplan.edu.au
Applications close on 30th July 2019