We are growing our team at our offices in Sydney’s Waterloo. We offer opportunities for you to develop and grow your skills and career, while making a real difference to education, research and people’s lives and futures.
A combination of research, marketing, client and candidate care, and project management, operating on a global scale, are all aspects of this role. Beyond induction, we offer training, development and career progression opportunities to share in our team’s success.
About you
The real you
You are a self-starter and have grit and determination
You can think laterally to gather information and to analyse, you look ahead in a process to anticipate and manage problems
You are a team-player and get done the things that need to be done
You are not afraid of continuous effort and share our high standards, and our focus on excellent results
You follow a process to completion, every step, and look for innovations to achieve improvements and ways to achieve breakthroughs
You can take a creative, big-picture view while maintaining a handle on the evidence and managing the detail
You are inquisitive and tech-savvy, looking for new tools and insights to better understand and maintain mastery within our quickly evolving world
You have a big heart; you care about other people’s success and feel proud of making a difference through others
If this might be you, we look forward to hearing from you.
Qualifications and experience
The right person has completed further education beyond year 12 (bachelor degree preferred) and has at least six months of paid or voluntary work experience.
You will draw upon your skills of delivering on multiple projects, research and analysis skills, problem solving, and communication and persuasion skills (verbal and written). You may have developed these skills through your studies, work or extra curricula activities, or a combination of these.
You will be a good typist (at least 50 WPM), a proficient user of Microsoft Office or equivalent (email, work-processing and spreadsheets to desktop publishing standard) and have good digital literacy including the use of online web resources and databases. A good understanding of social media platforms such as Twitter and online communities is expected.
About the role
Duties and responsibilities
Working immersed in our Sydney office ecosystem, you will collaborate closely with all members of the team to help you connect to the big picture of our work, and to grow your skills and effectiveness. You will work under direction of the Research Associate and interact directly with other members of the team.
Typical tasks
- Apply and interpret internal manual and project guidelines
- Assist in the set up and delivery of projects through the life cycle
- Web research
- Updating database records
- Search and interrogation of database
- Assessing candidate profiles for fit with project guidelines
- Write assessments of candidates to assist with decision-making
- Gathering marketing intelligence
- Initial review of applications and CVs
- Posting online marketing
- Sending emails and apply initiative in taking follow-up action
- Responding to enquiries with factual information and advice
- Preparing reports for clients
- Organising travel
- Arranging appointments
- Applying knowledge and judgment to the prioritisation
- Consulting internally and escalating issues as appropriate
- Handling confidential information in ways that reduce risk
The nuts and bolts
Full-time and continuing.
Commencement as soon as possible.
Next steps
For a confidential discussion, please get in touch with us via join@desailly.com.au sending your CV and a summary of how you match the ‘About You’ profile. Please also introduce yourself in a cover letter and nominate 3-5 referees who you would call upon in support of your application.
We won’t be able to respond to all enquiries. Expect to hear from us if we can see potential fit to explore further.
Our commitment to equity and diversity
Equity and diversity is important to our clients and the work we do for them and we embody it too. We encourage applicants from under-represented backgrounds and will be looking to increase the perspectives in our team to enable us to creatively tackle interesting challenges in assignments and to better understand the candidates we interact with.
Residency requirement
Australian Citizens and Permanent Residents only
