Work & Learning Centre Advisor
Applications close: COB Wednesday 6th May 2026. Workdays are negotiable – approximately 30.4 hours per fortnight. Morwell based. Travel to client locations required; company pool car available.
We are looking for a passionate and dedicated Work & Learning Centre Advisor to help support local learners to engage with education, training and employment opportunities. The WLC Advisor is primarily off‐site, responsible for fostering partnerships with employment providers and other agencies, networking to inform course content, delivering courses for the local community, and connecting with learners.
Responsibilities
* Provide personalised, face‐to‐face guidance and support to learners, including pathway planning, mentoring, and referrals to appropriate education, training and employment opportunities.
* Actively network and build relationships with local employers, training providers and community partners to raise the profile of the WLC and identify opportunities for learners.
* Maintain accurate learner records and prepare reports as required.
Capabilities / Key Selection Criteria
The candidate should demonstrate experience and practical application of the following capabilities within a work setting.
* Career assessment and counselling: Ensures clients and students understand the purpose of assessment in career development work.
* Career development & programme delivery: Prepares and presents programme proposals that consider context, budget, objectives and outcomes, selects tools, techniques and technology to best facilitate the programme, seeks client or student feedback with a desire to adapt and improve and demonstrates awareness of client or student needs in building relevant and accessible career resources and pathway information.
* Employer / industry liaison: Applies effective networking, presentation, negotiation and influencing skills and uses labour market information to assist clients in job search strategies and career planning.
* Diversity & inclusion: Applies culturally appropriate and trauma‐informed practices when working with individuals or groups and conducts specialised vocational counselling for people with disabilities, neurodiversity and a range of social and emotional challenges.
* Child safety & ethical practice: Engages in ethical practice with other practitioners, clients, students, employers and the public, preserves the client's right to privacy and seeks client expressed consent before disclosure of client information and avoids or discloses conflicts of interest which compromise the best interests of their client.
* Communication & interpersonal skills: Uses verbal communication skills including reframing, questioning, reflection and active listening skills, uses communication skills to assess clients' needs, uses written and verbal language appropriate to the audience and context, uses digital communication ethically and effectively, writes and maintains accurate client or student records using systems provided by the organisation and contributes appropriately to multi‐disciplinary teams and respects the value of others contributions.
Mandatory Requirements
* Clear police check
* Clear working with children check
* Current Victorian driver's licence
Qualification
* Case management experience (preferred)
Community College Gippsland (CCG) is a child‐safe organisation with zero tolerance for child abuse and is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all students. CCG supports and adheres to Child Safety Standards.
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