Employment Support Consultant

Inclusive Employment Australia (IEA) is a program that aims to provide specialist support to people living with disabilities seeking employment.

The Opportunity

The purpose of the Diversity Recruitment Specialist is to build and maintain relationship with employers, ensuring employers are aware and open to hiring individuals with disabilities. As a Diversity Recruitment Specialist, you will focus on engaging with employers and identifying suitable job opportunities that match each participant’s skills and goals.

Job type: Max Term Full-time, ending on 31 October 2027 

Location: Ashfield, Redfern and Leichardt NSW (some travel may be required across the region)

Salary: $65,866 per annum + super and $15,900 in salary packaging + monthly RDOs

Your key responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Connecting participants/clients to inclusive job opportunities through reverse marketing.
• Conducting assessments of prospective workplaces ensuring accessibility and cultural safety of participants.
• Facilitate job search workshops for groups using interactive methods, focusing on resume building, interview preparation and other employment readiness topics.
• Support employers with accepting and processing wage subsidies within the timeframe.
• Maintaining accurate records of participant interactions and compliance with all guidelines.
• Provide continuous post-placement support to both employers and participants.
• Meeting performance indicators by converting sale leads into placements

Essential Criteria:

• Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills
• Highly developed administrative and organisational skills
• Ability to work in target based, fast paced environment
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and ability to interact effectively with people across different cultures and backgrounds
• Ability to prioritise workload, use initiative and multi-task
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively as part of a team
• High level of computer literacy
• Satisfactory background checks including Police Check and Working With Children Check (or willingness to obtain)    
• Knowledge of and commitment to child safe standards and mandatory reporting requirements
• Current driver’s licence (minimum P2)
• Comprehensive Car Insurance and Motor Vehicle Registration

We are wanting to hear from candidates who enjoy providing a positive customer and client experience, thrive in a target-based environment, are motivated by exceeding their professional and personal goals. If this sounds like you, then please do not hesitate to apply today.

Culture & Benefits

Ability Options is a value driven organisation where the people we support are at the centre of everything we do. We have built an inclusive and progressive culture at Ability Options encouraging everyone to continue to learn and develop their career whether that is through coaching and mentoring or leadership training. 

In return for skills and experience, our people receive a competitive remuneration package, access to Fitness passport, employee discounts, a rewards and recognition program, flexible work arrangements including RDOs and the ability to significantly increase your take home pay with not-for profit salary packaging.

If you are passionate and have the desire to unlock possibilities for those we support, then we would love to hear from you!

If you have any enquiries regarding this role, please contact the IEA - Manager Hayley Cremona. 

Hayley Cremona
E: **************@abilityoptions.org.au

M: 0429 265 ***

Ability Options prides itself on being an equal opportunity employer. We encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages and gender including those who identify as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, and people with a disability.

Ability Options is committed to the safety, wellbeing and inclusion of children and young people. All successful applicants are subject to probity and pre-employment checks. Vaccination against infectious diseases is strongly encouraged.