Youth Employment Coach (Transition to Work)

Are you looking for a role where you can make a difference?

As a Youth Employment Coach, you will actively support young people to secure sustainable employment.

The Transition to Work (TtW) program provides intensive pre-employment support to improve the work readiness of young people and to help them into work (including apprenticeships or traineeships) or education. SYC delivers employment services at over 50 locations throughout Australia. You will be located at our Strathpine site. 

In this role, you’ll be part of a supportive and result driven team who are dedicated to our vision of wellbeing, independence, and opportunity for everyone. Day to day activities will include:

• Manage the end-to-end process of a caseload of young people
• Actively engage with both employers and young people
• Develop an appropriate job plan
• Provide intensive, individual pre-employment support
• Develop and maintain strong links with local businesses and education/training providers

About You

In this role, you will be able to apply your positive and outcome driven attitude to support young people in securing sustainable employment outcomes. You will be a great team-player to deliver quality services and collaboratively achieve client outcomes. The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Experience working with disengaged young people, ability to build rapport that leads to successful outcomes
• Ability to communicate, liaise and build networks with schools, education, employment/industry, and community agencies in a professional manner
• Results driven, passionate about performance and able to meet/exceed KPIs
• Demonstrate outstanding interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to understand appropriate behaviours with young people, and young people with diverse needs and/or backgrounds

For this role, you will need to:

• Be willing to complete a Working with Children Check, National Police Check 
• Be eligible to work in Australia

Why join Team SYC?

• Increase your pay with Salary Packaging options
• Career development opportunities
• Enjoy an additional day off to celebrate your Birthday*
• Wellbeing leave
• Access an additional one week of paid leave each year, through SYC loyalty leave*
• Be provided an additional paid personal leave
• Stay healthy with discounted Corporate Private Health Cover
• Access our free and confidential Employee Assistance Program
• Discounted gym membership for all employees
• Enjoy special benefits with Beaurepaires 

*Qualifying periods apply.

About us

SYC has a relentless belief in people and their potential. We provide services that foster wellbeing, independence and opportunity for all Australians. As a not-for-profit organisation, we invest back into the Australian community, helping tens of thousands of people every year with housing, education and employment. Founded in 1958 to support young people experiencing disadvantage, we now extend this expertise to people of all ages.

If you match the criteria above, we want to hear from you! 

To apply please complete the application process by clicking the Apply Now button. 

We’re proud to be a Circle Back Initiative Employer and we commit to respond to every applicant.

Please complete the requested work history and attach your resume.

SYC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud of our diverse workforce. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people with disability to apply. If you require assistance completing your application, please contact our recruitment team who will be happy to support you via *******@syc.net.au.