Employment Coach - Virtual

If you are looking for your next career opportunity that provides work life balance, and flexibility, look no further!
About the Role
The role of Virtual Employment Coach will allow the right candidates the flexibility to work from home on a full time, ongoing basis and will be responsible for assisting sites with the following:

• Managing a remote caseload of customers,
• Conducting virtual appointments with customers;
• Increasing job readiness of customers and referring to external services
• Assessing customer job search efforts; and
• Matching customers to suitable vacancies and reverse marketing customers to employers in their local area

The right person for this role will possess a genuine passion for working with those in need, and an ability to meet individual targets and contribute positively to the site team.
These roles are being offered on a full time, ongoing basis and will be able to work from home, and will have an option to work from a local site if requested. The right candidates will also be available to work a roster that is across the span of hours 8:30am-8:00pm, Monday to Friday, as they will be predominantly supporting business operations in Western Australia.
Why come and join Workskil Australia?

• Work a 9-day fortnight
• Salary Packaging options
• Internal career progression
• Great working culture
• 4 weeks paid parental leave
• Gain a Certificate IV in Employment Services or Career Development in your first 12 months of employment

About You
To be successful in the role you will be able to demonstrate:

• A passion and drive for helping people find employment;
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and ability to develop positive relationships with a diverse range of customers, employers and staff;
• Ability to assess, match and refer customers to appropriate job opportunities and to advocate directly to employers;
• Ability to achieve individual targets and work to clearly defined KPIs;
• A minimum typing speed of 30 WPM;
• Strong administration skills and IT literacy, data entry and typing skills, Word, Excel and Outlook experience;
• Attention to detail ability to work under pressure and flexible to jump across different tasks as business priorities change; and
• You will also be required to:
• Have a minimum Certificate IV in Employment Services or Career Development or willingness to undertake; and
• Have experience in Employment Services industry, Workforce Australia experience is desirable.

About Us
Workskil Australia is a national not-for-profit and charitable organisation, with almost 40 proud years of supporting Australians to achieve sustained economic and social self-reliance. We do this by providing a range of employment, work experience, disability, youth, Indigenous and community services across New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria.
We promote a positive team culture where high performance can thrive. We value excellent customer service, integrity and honesty in our employees. We look for employees who have a genuine passion for working with those in need, are results-focused and can contribute to a strong team. In return for your truly valued contribution we will support your ongoing career development and offer a friendly, supportive & innovative environment for you to thrive.
We work hard every day to:

• Work with our Customers to secure great long-term job opportunities.
• Meet the labour needs of business and industry through quality recruitment services at no cost.
• Assist businesses with diversifying their workforce.
• Provide specialist employment and community services to people seeking work, including people with mental illness, injury or disability and Indigenous Australians.
• Deliver work experience projects to the community.

Our values remain at the heart of everything we do and we strive to conduct our business with the highest degree of care, integrity, respect, honesty and service. We believe that the care, respect and high level of service we give to all of our customers is our key point of difference.
Remuneration
A competitive salary will be negotiated commensurate with skills and experience. As Workskil Australia is a public benevolent institution, we can also offer a portion of the salary through tax effective salary packaging.
About your Application
For your application, please include both a cover letter and resume. Your letter should set out why you are the appropriate candidate for the role. For ease of upload, we encourage you to combine these into one file as a pdf or word document. If you progress in your application for this role Workskil Australia will undertake screening, including medical assessments and police checks to ensure that you can carry out the inherent requirements of this role and that reasonable accommodations can be made. Prior to an offer of employment being made, candidates must provide authority for a Federal Police Clearance and other checks that may be a requirement of the position. To learn more about working at Workskil Australia head to
We are actively looking to fill this role and reserve the right to shortlist and interview applicants whilst this advertisement is open so encourage you to submit your application at your earliest opportunity.
Workskil Australia is an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we particularly welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, applicants from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and applicants who have a disability. We deliver a range of employment and community services to children, young people and their families and are committed to creating a safe environment for children and young people in the delivery of these services.