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Careers
The ASRC team is made up of over 200 staff and 1100 dedicated volunteers, passionate about supporting and empowering people seeking asylum.
Work For a Good Cause
The ASRC is a diverse and thriving workplace, providing support and services across a number of organisational streams. This not only provides people seeking asylum with wrap around support but also offers you varied career opportunities. Join a dedicated and passionate team of employees working within a range of disciplines. Each program works collaboratively to provide critical services to people seeking asylum, within a supportive and engaging workplace.
Whether your skills, experience and passions are aligned with our advocacy work, frontline humanitarian services, human rights and migration law services, fundraising and marketing activities, or our education, health, employment or human resources services – you’ll find a rewarding role at the ASRC. Each of the specialised programs at the ASRC will support you to utilise your knowledge and experience to improve the lives of people seeking asylum in Australia.
Our Values
We love our people. Ensuring our staff feel valued and heard is integral to the continued success of the ASRC.
Our values are the foundation of the ASRC’s identity, the core of our organisational culture, and what guides all decision-making – including the recruitment process.
Informed by our passionate team of staff and volunteers, our values aim to uphold respect and transparency throughout the organisation.
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Diversity and Inclusion
The ASRC promotes diversity and inclusion holistically. We strongly encourage people who identify as LGBTQIA+, people with lived experience of seeking asylum, First Nations people, people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and people with disability or with lived experience of disability to apply for a career at the ASRC.
Child safety
We are proud to be a child-safe organisation. All forms of employment with the ASRC – paid or voluntary – are subject to continued compliance with our Child Safety Reporting Policy.
Volunteer for the ASRC
A fantastic way to help people seeking asylum is to join the ASRC’s community of compassion as a passionate and generous volunteer.
As an independent, not-for-profit, we are powered by the generosity of our community and the support of a wonderful volunteer workforce. It is thanks to these amazing people who volunteer their time, energy and expertise to the ASRC that together we can affect positive change in our community.
Find out more about becoming a volunteer, including our Student Placements and Practical Legal Training.
Our policy
The ASRC is proud to be a child-safe organisation. All forms of employment with the ASRC; paid or voluntary are subject to continued compliance with our Child Safety Reporting Policy. All or any breaches to this policy may result in disciplinary action being taken and/or the cessation of the employment contract or volunteer agreements.
All offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and provision of a valid Working with Children Check prior to commencement.
Application Procedure
Before applying, please ensure that you have the correct visa to work in Australia. To do this you can visit the Australian Government Department of Immigration and Border Protection website – www.border.gov.au
ASRC reserves the right to conduct a visa status check prior to making an offer of employment.
All applications must address the Key Selection Criteria and include a CV (resume). Only applications addressing the key selection criteria will be considered.
Please apply via the ASRC website.
We encourage applications from people with refugee backgrounds.
Connect with us
Need help from the ASRC? Call 03 9326 6066 or visit us: Mon-Tue-Thur-Fri 10am -4pm. Closed on Wednesdays.