Top Benefits
About the role
About This Role Talent Advisor
- Be part of a purpose-driven organisation where your impact truly matters
- Enjoy great benefits, including a talent advisory incentive program (up to 10% p.a.)
- Work in a collaborative, supportive Talent team with opportunities to grow and stretch
About The Role Based in our Southbank Office, you will join our national Talent Advisory Team as a permanent team member, working particularly closely with one of our VIC-based Talent Advisors. This is a hybrid role, giving you the best of both worlds.
You'll oversee a portfolio of Melbourne-based campuses and partner with Campus Directors and Leaders on all casual and permanent recruitment needs (typically around 20-30 open vacancies at any one time).
This is a true end-to-end talent advisory role, where you'll:
- End-to-end recruitment delivery - managing all aspects of the process from sourcing and pipelining through to interviews, offers, compliance, and onboarding
- Proactive sourcing - leveraging LinkedIn, Seek Talent Search, Indeed, networking, social media, and industry events to build sustainable talent pipelines and reduce reliance on reactive or agency-led recruitment
- Advisory and partnership - building strong, trusted relationships with hiring leaders, providing market insights, coaching on recruitment best practice, and aligning strategies to business needs
- Employer branding - embedding OAC's Employee Value Proposition into all attraction activities, ensuring candidates experience the OAC Way from their very first interaction
- Data and insights - using recruitment metrics and market trends to inform, influence, and educate stakeholders, while continuously improving sourcing ROI, quality of hire, and retention outcomes
- Compliance and quality - ensuring all recruitment processes and checks meet internal and regulatory requirements, supporting safe and compliant hiring
- Continuous improvement - contributing to projects, process optimisation, and People & Culture initiatives that elevate both candidate and stakeholder experience
- Events and engagement - representing OAC at careers events, university/TAFE engagements, and industry forums to grow our presence and attract diverse and skilled talent
About Us At Only About Children (OAC), our unique approach to early years learning goes beyond education to include the health and wellbeing of every child in our care. We call this The OAC Way . With over 80 campuses across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, we provide high-quality early years education and care to more than 8,000 families.
You'll be joining a collaborative, curious, and high-performing Talent team that celebrates wins, shares knowledge, and supports each other to succeed.
You Are Worth More
- Talent Advisory Incentive Program – up to an additional 10% p.a. on top of package
- Work-life balance – hybrid working, two Wellbeing Days each year, option to purchase up to two weeks additional annual leave
- Childcare discount – 50% off fees at any OAC campus
- Leave support – 18 weeks Government Parental Leave Pay, plus 10 days paid Family & Domestic Violence leave
- Health & wellbeing – access to our EAP and wellbeing initiatives
- Rewards & recognition – retail discount program, cashback offers, and Loyalty Recognition Program to celebrate tenure
About You We're looking for someone who is energised by people, proactive in approach, and confident in building trusted relationships. You will bring:
- Demonstrated recruitment experience (agency and/or internal), ideally gained within the Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) sector
- Strong interviewing skills and knowledge of recruitment best practice
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and priorities simultaneously
- A proactive sourcing mindset with experience across platforms like LinkedIn, Seek, and Indeed
- A genuine partnership approach to stakeholder management - being a “true advisor”
At Only About Children we have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and we want you to bring your whole self to work. We welcome and encourage applications from all members of the community, particularly those who identify as Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander. At Only About Children (OAC), every child's safety, wellbeing, and protection is our highest priority. We have an unwavering committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment where every child feels safe and valued. All employees are required to hold a current Employee Working with Children Check before beginning employment. Additionally, throughout the recruitment process, we conduct thorough assessments to ensure the suitability of all candidates for working with children.
About Only About Children
At Only About Children, we’re proud to be one of Australia’s leading childcare and preschool/kindergarten providers for children aged from six weeks to five years. We are More Than Childcare. Our unique approach to early learning focuses on education, social development, health and wellbeing. It’s specially designed to give every child the best start to life and we call it The OAC Way.
We operate over 80 campuses across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Our campuses give us the opportunity to provide high-quality early learning and care to over 8,000 families and employ over 2,000 people.
Attracting, developing and retaining our people is essential to The OAC Way, and we believe our people are worth more. Whether that be more pay & benefits, more wellbeing, more recognition, and more development – we empower our people to thrive professionally & personally and in turn deliver the best quality outcomes for children and families in our care.
Top Benefits
About the role
About This Role Talent Advisor
- Be part of a purpose-driven organisation where your impact truly matters
- Enjoy great benefits, including a talent advisory incentive program (up to 10% p.a.)
- Work in a collaborative, supportive Talent team with opportunities to grow and stretch
About The Role Based in our Southbank Office, you will join our national Talent Advisory Team as a permanent team member, working particularly closely with one of our VIC-based Talent Advisors. This is a hybrid role, giving you the best of both worlds.
You'll oversee a portfolio of Melbourne-based campuses and partner with Campus Directors and Leaders on all casual and permanent recruitment needs (typically around 20-30 open vacancies at any one time).
This is a true end-to-end talent advisory role, where you'll:
- End-to-end recruitment delivery - managing all aspects of the process from sourcing and pipelining through to interviews, offers, compliance, and onboarding
- Proactive sourcing - leveraging LinkedIn, Seek Talent Search, Indeed, networking, social media, and industry events to build sustainable talent pipelines and reduce reliance on reactive or agency-led recruitment
- Advisory and partnership - building strong, trusted relationships with hiring leaders, providing market insights, coaching on recruitment best practice, and aligning strategies to business needs
- Employer branding - embedding OAC's Employee Value Proposition into all attraction activities, ensuring candidates experience the OAC Way from their very first interaction
- Data and insights - using recruitment metrics and market trends to inform, influence, and educate stakeholders, while continuously improving sourcing ROI, quality of hire, and retention outcomes
- Compliance and quality - ensuring all recruitment processes and checks meet internal and regulatory requirements, supporting safe and compliant hiring
- Continuous improvement - contributing to projects, process optimisation, and People & Culture initiatives that elevate both candidate and stakeholder experience
- Events and engagement - representing OAC at careers events, university/TAFE engagements, and industry forums to grow our presence and attract diverse and skilled talent
About Us At Only About Children (OAC), our unique approach to early years learning goes beyond education to include the health and wellbeing of every child in our care. We call this The OAC Way . With over 80 campuses across Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane, we provide high-quality early years education and care to more than 8,000 families.
You'll be joining a collaborative, curious, and high-performing Talent team that celebrates wins, shares knowledge, and supports each other to succeed.
You Are Worth More
- Talent Advisory Incentive Program – up to an additional 10% p.a. on top of package
- Work-life balance – hybrid working, two Wellbeing Days each year, option to purchase up to two weeks additional annual leave
- Childcare discount – 50% off fees at any OAC campus
- Leave support – 18 weeks Government Parental Leave Pay, plus 10 days paid Family & Domestic Violence leave
- Health & wellbeing – access to our EAP and wellbeing initiatives
- Rewards & recognition – retail discount program, cashback offers, and Loyalty Recognition Program to celebrate tenure
About You We're looking for someone who is energised by people, proactive in approach, and confident in building trusted relationships. You will bring:
- Demonstrated recruitment experience (agency and/or internal), ideally gained within the Early Childhood Education & Care (ECEC) sector
- Strong interviewing skills and knowledge of recruitment best practice
- Experience managing multiple vacancies and priorities simultaneously
- A proactive sourcing mindset with experience across platforms like LinkedIn, Seek, and Indeed
- A genuine partnership approach to stakeholder management - being a “true advisor”
At Only About Children we have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion and we want you to bring your whole self to work. We welcome and encourage applications from all members of the community, particularly those who identify as Australian Aboriginal and / or Torres Strait Islander. At Only About Children (OAC), every child's safety, wellbeing, and protection is our highest priority. We have an unwavering committed to providing a safe, nurturing, and inclusive environment where every child feels safe and valued. All employees are required to hold a current Employee Working with Children Check before beginning employment. Additionally, throughout the recruitment process, we conduct thorough assessments to ensure the suitability of all candidates for working with children.
About Only About Children
At Only About Children, we’re proud to be one of Australia’s leading childcare and preschool/kindergarten providers for children aged from six weeks to five years. We are More Than Childcare. Our unique approach to early learning focuses on education, social development, health and wellbeing. It’s specially designed to give every child the best start to life and we call it The OAC Way.
We operate over 80 campuses across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. Our campuses give us the opportunity to provide high-quality early learning and care to over 8,000 families and employ over 2,000 people.
Attracting, developing and retaining our people is essential to The OAC Way, and we believe our people are worth more. Whether that be more pay & benefits, more wellbeing, more recognition, and more development – we empower our people to thrive professionally & personally and in turn deliver the best quality outcomes for children and families in our care.