Graduate Consultant (Feb 2025)

Nous is a great place to work…

We deliver a dynamic and varied experience that generates positive influence and growth for our clients, our colleagues, and you. 

Working at pace and delivering great projects is balanced with benefits.  

• We offer active career and professional development support, funding professional development activities and reimbursing one professional membership per year
• All Nousers have great flexibility around public holidays. We understand that people of different cultures, religions, and political beliefs may wish to choose to take alternative days of leave from scheduled holidays
• Consultants engage directly with clients on projects and colleagues of all levels.
• Hybrid working is supported while acknowledging that the fastest learning happens when working face to face with clients and colleagues. Nousers receive a once off payment to set up your WFH office
• A collaborative bonus that reflects company performance is available to all permanent employees
• Celebrating commitment to Nous by enabling access to long service leave after 5 years of employment
• Supporting working parents by providing 18 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave and 10 weeks of paid secondary carer parental leave (access to parental leave is gender neutral).
• Nousers aim to deliver an average of 8 hours client project work per day and are then able to spend additional time on growth – either yours, your colleagues’ or Nous’, which may include time on professional development, mentoring, IP development, or involvement with Nous’ employee networks.

What we do...

Nous offer expert consulting services across a range of services including business strategy, public policy, organisational capability and development, transformational change, and digital strategy and capability. 

A snapshot of recent projects: 

• developing a strategy to respond to key health system challenges and reforms including the use of health analytics and technology
• re-designing education innovation functions and organisation design for major universities
• generating solutions using advanced data analytics techniques to better design policy, strategy, and services
• developing an evidence base and strategy to inform Victoria’s offshore wind program
• designing a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow overseas operations
• reviewing care coordination for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, using data analytics and drawing on consultations with service providers and Indigenous clients
• the implementation of a financial service providers’ new leadership and cultural change
• using co-design techniques, worked with victims and perpetrators of family violence to create a service development plan for a contact centre.

How we will develop and support you...

At Nous, we want you to hit the ground running, working in project teams from day one. We’ve designed an intensive graduate induction program to set you up for success, teaching key consulting skills and extending your knowledge quickly. Your development doesn’t end with induction, it continues throughout your time at Nous with a wide range of learning opportunities, primarily on the job in diverse client projects, but also through targeted courses, webinars, performance check ins, online learning, and formal learning programs. 

For those with the necessary energy and ability, we will ensure that Nous supports your growth with the opportunity to rotate across consulting offers. This may include experience in data analytics, design, digital, economics, implementation, leadership, organisational performance, public policy, regulation, or strategy. 

More about Nous

Nous is an international management consultancy with over 700 people working across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland and Canada. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success. 

Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023 Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognised as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia). We have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review on a number of occasions and a Great Place to Work every year that we’ve entered (Australia). We’re excited to be extending success and influence globally having recently been awarded a Great Place to Work in Canada and the UK in 2023. 

Our recruitment process

Your recruitment experience may vary; however, a typical process will follow: an online assessment; preliminary interview; skills interviews; verbal & written case studies; assessment centres. 

To succeed in a graduate consulting role at Nous you are: 

• enthusiastic, curious, and eager to learn
• intelligent and academically accomplished
• skilled in strong quantitative analysis
• able to undertake structured qualitative analysis 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 simultaneously
• effective at working autonomously and in a self-managed way, using initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.

Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We take pride in the inclusive workplace we have built, acknowledged by the Diversity Council of Australia as a 2021-2022 Inclusive Employer, reflecting both the diversity of our people and our supportive people, culture, and policies. We are one of only one hundred organisations nationally that have a Strech Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Reconciliation Action Plan. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations people.  

If you are energetic, highly capable, and interested in working in a fast-paced environment as part of a high performing dynamic team, working on complex problems that puts people at the centre of everything, we'd love to hear from you! Please click apply below. We will review your application and be in contact as soon as possible. Please keep an eye out on your spam folder, just in case. 

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

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.