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Looking to start your career in February 2022?

Nous is a great place to work…

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 400 people working across Australia, the UK and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that partners with leaders to shape world class businesses, effective governments and empowered communities.

Nous has been acknowledged as one of the Top 100 Graduate Employers of 2021 by GradAustralia. Nous placed 36th on the 2021 list, which uses popularity and quality to assess graduate employers in Australia. Nous was also recognised as one of Australia's top 10 workplaces in the 2019 Great Places to Work Awards.

We bring a unique, cross-disciplinary approach to business strategy, public policy, organisational capability, executive talent and development, and digital strategy and capability.

At Nous, it is important to us that you are set up for success. That's why we've designed a two-to-three week graduate induction program to help you learn key consulting skills and extend your knowledge quickly. Our objective is that you will immediately become a productive and successful contributor to your project teams and our clients' success. Your growth and skills development doesn't end at induction, it continues for your time at Nous with a wide range of formal and informal learning opportunities through check-ins, webinars, online learning and on-project learning.

Our graduate consultants have the opportunity to work across all these service lines. You will get the opportunity to be involved in projects that:

• use advanced data analytics techniques to better design policy, strategy and services to solve 'wicked problems'
• re-design education innovation functions for a major university
• develop a strategy to respond to key health system challenges and reforms including the use of health analytics and technology
• design a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow its overseas operations
• review care coordination for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, using data analytics and drawing on consultations with service providers and indigenous clients
• develop an international operating model for a large diversified investor
• re-design a financial services providers people and culture functions
• using co-design techniques work with victims and perpetrators of family violence to create a service development plan for a contract centre

As part of these projects, graduate consultants are involved in:

Investigation – research and analysis, interviewing clients and their stakeholders, reviewing literature to identify key trends and draw out key insights.

Presentation – assisting the development and presentation of correspondence, reports, presentations and articles, including statistical and graphical material.

Implementation – including supporting project management, workshop facilitation support and organising workshops, conferences and seminars.

To succeed in a graduate consulting role at Nous you need to be:

• enthusiastic, curious and willing to learn
• intelligent and academically accomplished – a Distinction average or above is essential
• able to undertake structured analyses in a logical and efficient manner
• able to demonstrate excellent written and oral communication skills
• well organised, with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work in an organised manner
• comfortable working autonomously and in a self-managed way, using initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you
• able to analyse and process quantitative data.

Want to find out more? Watch our graduate recruitment video: Graduate careers at Nous

Finally…

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Nous is a flexible workplace that offers consulting opportunities on a full-time and part-time basis.

We seek people who demonstrate an ability to work effectively with individuals with diverse backgrounds. We are committed to diversity and inclusion.

If you have experience working on complex problems and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you! Please click Apply below.

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia you must have Australian Permanent Residency or right to work in Australia.

Applications close on the 28th of February 2021.