Careers Advisor

• Fixed-term contract (Parental Leave Cover), part-time (3 - 4 days per week)
• 26 days’ annual leave (pro-rata), including one for your birthday
• Flexible hybrid working available
• Join an industry-leading, student-focused and inclusive work culture

Role

We have an exciting opportunity for a proactive and student-focused Careers Advisor to join our Sydney campus team on a fixed-term parental leave contract.

This part-time position (0.6 - 0.8 FTE) plays a key role in supporting student employability, professional identity, and career confidence. You will provide personalised career consultations, coordinate career development events, and build relationships with employers and industry partners to create work experience and job opportunities for students.

You’ll work closely with the National Careers Manager and other campus staff to deliver high-quality services aligned with national employability strategy - while also enjoying flexibility, autonomy, and a genuinely student-first culture.

Responsibilities

• Deliver one-on-one career consultations, both online and face-to-face, tailored to diverse student needs
• Coach students on job readiness, personal branding, and career confidence aligned with the KBS Employability Framework
• Promote and guide students through employment opportunities, internship pathways, and career enrichment programs
• Refer students into academic internship subjects in collaboration with the Work Integrated Learning (WIL) team
• Plan, promote and deliver careers workshops, events, and guest speaker panels
• Build and maintain campus-based relationships with employers, host companies, and community organisations
• Track and report on student consultations, event attendance, internship placements, and job outcomes using approved systems
• Respond to student feedback and contribute to the continuous improvement of careers services
• Collaborate with Student Experience staff and national Careers Central colleagues to ensure consistent, high-impact service delivery

Requirements

• Experience in a client-facing or stakeholder engagement role (e.g. careers, recruitment, student services, business development) (essential)
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including comfort facilitating events or presenting to groups
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks with independence, initiative, and attention to detail
• Comfortable with Microsoft Office and able to quickly adapt to new systems and processes
• Ability to work effectively with international students and culturally diverse cohorts
• Working with Children Check (or willingness to obtain)
• Tertiary qualifications in Careers Education, Counselling, Business, HR, or related field (desirable)
• Experience using a CRM, student management system, or digital careers tools (desirable)

Don't delay in submitting your application. Applications close on 23rd July 2025. 

Kaplan Business School

At Kaplan Business School, we are one of only nine self-accrediting institutes of higher education. We are recognised in Australia and globally as exemplars of international education, quality teaching, student support, employability and academic integrity. As such, Kaplan Business School is a winner of the Business School of the Year award at the prestigious global awards The PIEoneer Awards 2023.
We deliver undergraduate and postgraduate courses in business, accounting, IT, marketing, management, tourism, entrepreneurship, health services, digital management, analytics, project management and leadership. Our flagship MBA program is Australia’s second largest in terms of student enrolments and among the most highly regarded.
We have a friendly and flexible leadership team who cultivate a culture of innovative methods of teaching and learning across five Australian campuses as well as online.

Pre-screening questions and background checks may be required:  Kaplan and many of its major clients operate in highly regulated environments. This requires us to be proactive and diligent in relation to personnel background checks and to undertake thorough vetting of candidates for roles of this nature. To enable Kaplan to assess a candidate’s suitability for this role, each candidate will be required to answer pre-screening questions, and, if you receive a conditional offer of employment, you will be required to undertake the relevant background checks (unless Kaplan determines otherwise). These checks may include one or more of the following: verification of identity, working rights, criminal history, qualifications, and working with children clearance. If you are shortlisted, Kaplan will advise you which checks are required for this role and explain how you will undertake the checks. Kaplan is committed to handling your personal information appropriately. Please see the Privacy Policy at Kaplan.edu.au for information about how Kaplan may handle your personal information in connection with this application process.

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