Senior Consultant

If we have a vacant position aligned to your skills and experiences, we will get in touch with further details. If we do not have current vacancies aligned to your area of expertise, we would like to keep your application on file and get in touch if something becomes available. We encourage you to keep an eye on Nous’ LinkedIn and careers pages for new roles.

At Nous, we’re looking for exceptional Senior Consultants to shape the future, working with governments, businesses, and communities to solve complex challenges and create lasting impact. You’ll think big, elevate your ambitions, and collaborate with leading experts across sectors in an award-winning culture that fosters innovation and continuous learning.

Consistently ranked as a Great Place to Work and recognised as a top consulting firm, Nous offers a dynamic environment where expertise is valued, innovation thrives, and your contributions make a tangible difference. You’ll tackle critical issues, work with high-performing teams, and play a key role in delivering solutions that drive real-world improvements.

Bring your strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and passion for impact to a team that supports your growth and empowers you to shape the future.

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 650 people working with clients across Australasia, the United Kingdom, and North America. 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.

As a Senior Consultant you will:

• Work across a range of teams to deliver projects, including by engaging clients and their stakeholders, undertaking quantitative and qualitative analysis, and assisting in the development of deliverables across a range of formats that distil analysis into clear and compelling recommendations for clients.
• Take ownership of specific project domains or workstreams.
• Lead client consultants and other stakeholder engagement.
• Take an active role in client and business development.
• Undertake project coordination activities on small to medium-sized projects.
• Provide support to Project Directors and Project Managers on larger projects.
• Support the development of junior consultants.

You are:

• Passionate and driven about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and creativity.
• Committed and motivated to delivering high quality work and outcomes for clients and colleagues, underpinned by a consistent commitment to professionalism.
• Engaging and collaborative with the ability to bring energy and enthusiasm for working with clients and colleagues across all your work.
• Capable of working autonomously and balancing competing priorities and pressures on your time.
• Intellectually flexible and innovative with the ability to develop intellectual property through projects, teams and practice groups to enhance our existing methods and frameworks.
• Resilient with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, uncertain and intense working environments.
• Enthusiastic and curious about working across a wide range of service lines and sectors and continually learning new subject matters and skills on the job.

And the practical experience:

• 2+ years prior work experience in a professional environment, related to our sectors and capability areas.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
• The capability to think, articulate, write, and present in a logical and structured way.
• Strong interpersonal skills including the ability to navigate uncertain environments with clients and colleagues, provide and respond to feedback, and coordinate teams.

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We 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.

If you have experience working on complex problems, are high performing and productive working in a fast-paced environment, 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!

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia, you must have unrestricted rights 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.