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Are you ready to make an impact from day one?

At Nous, you'll work on projects that shape the future—helping governments, businesses, communities, and citizens thrive. From day one, you’ll gain the consulting skills to make a meaningful contribution to your team and clients. 

Consistently ranked as a Great Place to Work and recognised as a top consulting firm, we offer a vibrant culture where curiosity is valued, learning is continuous, and your professional growth is actively supported and celebrated.

Bring your passion, ideas, and ambition to a team that backs your development and empowers you to create lasting change.

Join us in our mission to realise a bigger idea of success.

What we offer

Working at pace to deliver great quality outcomes for our clients is balanced with benefits: 

• A permanent full-time opportunity
• 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 at all levels of seniority.
• 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.
• Our clients are the driving force behind our service demand. Client demand can come in waves, our consultants flex effort and time commitment up or down.

Nous is an ideal place to start your career journey 

Nous is an ideal place to start your career journey. We deliver a dynamic and varied experience across a range of sectors, practices and offers. This may include experience in data analytics, design, digital, economics, implementation, leadership, organisational performance, public policy, regulation, or strategy. 

You will hit the ground running – working in project teams from day one. Our intensive graduate induction program aims to set you up for success, teaching key consulting skills and building your knowledge quickly. Your development doesn’t end with induction; it continues throughout your time at Nous. This is primarily on the job in multidisciplinary teams, working closely with Nous leaders on diverse client projects, but also through targeted courses, webinars, performance check-ins, online learning, and formal learning programs. 

Nous has delivered over 10,000 projects for governments, businesses, and not-for-profit organisations. 

As a graduate, you could have the exciting opportunity to engage in projects like these!   

• Implementing institution-wide changes to a research-intensive Australian university on how the university conducts research, delivers teaching, and organises its administrative and corporate functions.
• Establishing Victoria’s offshore wind program to support the state in transition to net-zero emissions.
• Working alongside victim-survivors of family violence to improve the experience of court users and manage increasing demand on the system.
• Designing a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow overseas operations.
• Enhancing educational outcomes and equity by developing an evidence base about how school- and student-based factors affect performance and entrench disadvantage.
• Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student outcomes by quantifying the social return on investment of programs delivered by the organisation.

Application process

We look for smart, energetic, highly capable people for the future of Nous. 

Each recruitment experience may vary, however, a typical process will follow: online assessments, written assessments, Talent Acquisition team interviews, assessment centre, or case study interviews.