Nous Group
Graduate Consultant (Jan 2026)
Canberra, Sydney, Darwin
Opportunity details
- Graduate Job or Program
- AUD 74,000 - 78,000 / Year
- Starting from $74,000. Superannuation, remote working allowance, & collaborative bonus not included.
- 5-60 vacancies
- Apply by 23 Feb 2025
- Start date 31 Jan 2026 - 30 Mar 2026
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.
Hiring criteria
- No experience required
- Australian Citizen +more
- Business & Management +more
- Bachelor or higher
Reviews
My daily responsibilities at Nous Group encompass researching industry trends, composing analytical reports, facilitating workshops, and collaborating closely with clients and colleagues to devise effective solutions. I continuously engage in critical thinking and creative problem-solving to address complex client challenges. My focus remains on delivering clear, data-driven insights and actionable strategies to drive organisational performance and outcomes.
As a graduate consultant I am supporting with research and analysis, as well as creating reports, slide decks etc.
They can be quite varied. I have done a lot of data analytics work at Nous, so my day could easily include modelling in R. A lot of other tasks that Nousers typically do is desktop research, where you will research a topic and collate the information into a coherent narrative.
About the employer
Nous Group
4.3
500 - 1,000 employees
Management Consulting
As part of the Nous team, you’ll have the opportunity to think big, elevate your ambitions and partner with leading experts and organisations.
Pros and cons of working at Nous Group
Pros
The workplace culture is warm and welcoming. They cultivate an environment that encourages knowledge sharing and high (but supported) performance.
The work we get to do is intellectually stimulating, meaningful, and impactful.
There is a (fairly) flat organisational structure, and you have a lot of opportunities to interact with principals - within projects, the team structure is well-balanced with senior and junior consultants and project directors are very hands-on.
They are invested in my personal development as a consultant and regularly provide feedback (positive and constructive) to help me grow.
Nous Group has delivered over $7 million in subsidised consulting through our Community Partnerships Scheme; our Stretch Reconciliation Action Plan directs our collective efforts towards enhancing the self-determination and future of First Nations Australians; Operationally, they uphold sustainability through eco-conscious travel and procurement practices, waste reduction, emissions targets, and compensating for residual emissions.
Cons
The workload changes: sometimes it's really busy, and sometimes very quiet, but that's part of the job!
My company is flexible. Sometimes there are longer days (until 7 pm for example) but the self-managed approach means it's up to each employee how they use their work hours (within reason of course).
The starting salary and super for a graduate is about standard compared to other companies. Depending on company performance and the specific contract you signed, you can receive a bonus at the end of the financial year.
The training was good but was predominantly online and I think would have benefitted greatly from being in person. In terms of on-the-job training, it's fantastic. Our intranet and IP are great and there is so much to learn.
The hardest part of working at Nous is the hours - they aren't too bad, but sometimes you will have to flex up on some nights to complete a deadline.