About John Holland:

At John Holland, our purpose is simple – we transform lives with everything we do. We’ve always known that infrastructure is about people — our customers, our employees, and the communities in which we work every day. That’s our difference. Deep experience and capability with a genuine care about creating better lives for people along the way. Be part of the team that’s up for the challenge of transforming lives for good.

About the Role:

This opportunity will have you defining, embedding and leading our early careers strategy ensuring the pipeline of our capability is future proof, developed and in alignment to our multi-disciplinary business.

Responsibilities of the role include:

• Lead the successful end to end delivery of all Early Careers Programs to ensure a positive employee experience.
• Define the market engagement strategy that supports pathways into the John Holland business for diverse capability via career fairs, university engagement, societies and opportunities for partnerships.
• Partner with Organisational Development, external providers, key John Holland stakeholders including the People team and projects to identify, design and develop learning initiatives.
• Design and deliver presentations, welcome inductions, workshops and connection opportunities.
• Deliver the full life cycle of early careers initiatives in line with budgeting restraints.
• Continuously seek ways of improving processes and innovation to optimize early careers development opportunities, recruitment processes, market engagement and policy and guidelines.
• Develop, analyse and socialise varying reports to enable decisions and return on investment across early careers programs.

About You:

• Preferably a Bachelor in HR, business or administration
• Proven experience in HR, OD and/or recruitment or in a similar role.
• Preferably extensive experience in managing Graduate and Internship programs, including but not limited to Graduate, Undergraduate, Work experience/ Internship, Apprentice and Traineeship programs.
• Experience in defining and delivering strategic objectives aligned to business outcomes that may drive change.
• Strong stakeholder management, relationship-building and influencing skills.

As part of the team, you can help us transform lives.

Your success is reflected in ours, so we’re committed to being an employer of choice. We pride ourselves on having a diverse and inclusive workplace, as we understand that different perspectives and ideas are critical to our long-term success.

We want you to be with us for the long term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.

What’s in it for you.

We’re about connecting your sense of purpose to ours. We understand that your career is one of the biggest ways to have an impact on the world. We also believe in supporting you as a whole person, not just an employee.

We reward and support our people in so many ways. This starts with being flexible about how different people like to work. From generous leave policies to wellbeing and relationship support, your needs sit at the heart of our employee benefits.

We offer:

Competitive remuneration with salary continuance, and salary sacrifice options.

Great leave benefits including 18 weeks paid parental leave with super and up to an extra 18 weeks of super paid on further periods of unpaid parental leave, multicultural leave exchange and two extra days to prioritise your wellbeing.

Career progression underpinned by our exciting pipeline of work means you’ll have the opportunity to work on iconic projects that are shaping cities and communities.

Learning and development opportunities where you’ll have access to emerging talent programs, building your career through clear career pathways, plus technical and leadership training and development opportunities.

Inclusion, diversity and equity is part of how we work. We want everyone at John Holland to feel that they belong – that’s why we’re working hard every day to foster a more inclusive culture, backed by a business-wide inclusion strategy to bring about meaningful change. We’ve also got active employee resource groups that support our commitments including those around gender equality and reconciliation.

Flexibility means different things to different people. Whether it’s flexi-hours, flexi-parenting, flexi-leave, flexi-shifts or flexi-work, we’re committed to helping our people work flexibly.