Industry Placement Coordinator

Kangan Institute; Greater Bendigo; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Free onsite parking

Professional development opportunities

Fitness Passport access

Employee assistance program (EAP)

Job summary

Bendigo Kangan Institute (BKI) is seeking an Industry Placement Coordinator to connect students with quality industry placements. Based in Bendigo with occasional travel, the role focuses on sourcing hosts, coordinating student matching, and managing compliance and logistics.

The part-time, 0.8 FTE role offers flexible work options and meaningful student outcomes within a public vocational education environment.

Qualifications

• Qualifications in business or marketing, or substantial experience in an educational or VET setting.
• Experience building industry partnerships and placement opportunities.
• Experience coordinating end-to-end placements, including student matching, compliance and logistics.
• Proficiency with placement management systems and data accuracy.
• Strong planning, communication and teamwork skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain industry partnerships, identify new hosts and secure placement opportunities across multiple courses.
• Coordinate end-to-end placements, including student matching, scheduling, logistics and host communication.
• Ensure placement agreements, documentation and processes meet regulatory, industry and educational requirements.
• Maintain accurate placement records using systems such as InPlace and Placeright, and use technology to improve efficiency.
• Guide students and industry partners through placement requirements, resolve concerns and elevate complex issues.
• Use feedback and placement data to improve processes and contribute to the centralised placement team's success.

Skills

Relationship building

Project coordination

Placement management

Data accuracy

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Business/Marketing qualification or relevant experience

Tools

InPlace

Placeright

Job description

Location: Bendigo campus

Role Type: Part-time (0.8 FTE), ongoing

Salary: From $99,877 plus 12% superannuation, pro rata

About Us

At Bendigo Kangan Institute (BKI), we change lives through the power of education and skills. As a Victorian public TAFE and public sector entity, BKI brings together Bendigo TAFE, Kangan Institute, VETASSESS and eWorks to deliver future-ready skills, training, assessment and lifelong learning opportunities. As a public sector education entity, BKI operates in a complex, regulated and purpose-led environment, supporting learners, industry and communities across Victoria. This role will help shape the structures, ways of working and workforce foundations needed to deliver our ambitions in a complex, multi-campus public vocational education environment.

The Opportunity

Help students turn their learning into practical experience by connecting them with quality industry placements. As an Industry Placement Coordinator at Bendigo Kangan Institute, you’ll build the partnerships and coordinate the opportunities that support students to take their next step into industry. You’ll source placement opportunities, develop relationships with new and existing hosts, and manage placements from student matching through to compliance and logistics. Working within our centralised placement team, you’ll balance upcoming placement needs with day-to-day priorities, keeping students and industry partners informed along the way. This part-time role offers the chance to combine relationship building with hands‑on coordination and meaningful student outcomes. Based in Bendigo, the role includes occasional travel to other campuses and host organisations.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain industry partnerships, identify new hosts and secure quality placement opportunities across multiple courses.
• Coordinate end-to-end placements, including student matching, scheduling, logistics and communication with hosts.
• Ensure placement agreements, documentation and processes meet regulatory, industry and educational requirements.
• Maintain accurate placement records using systems such as InPlace and Placeright, and use technology to improve efficiency.
• Guide students and industry partners through placement requirements, resolve concerns and elevate complex issues appropriately.
• Use feedback and placement data to improve processes and contribute to the success of the centralised placement team.

What You'll Bring

You’re a proactive relationship builder who enjoys bringing people and processes together. You can plan ahead, respond calmly when priorities change and keep the details on track in a busy placement environment.

• Relevant qualifications in business or marketing, or substantial experience in an educational or VET setting.
• Demonstrated success building industry partnerships and developing placement opportunities.
• Experience coordinating end-to-end placements, including student matching, compliance and logistics.
• Confidence using placement management systems, with strong attention to data accuracy and documentation.
• Sound judgement to resolve placement issues professionally and ensure placements meet relevant requirements.
• Strong planning, communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to balance future placement needs and current priorities.

We can offer you

• Flexible work options and attractive work‑life balance
• Free onsite parking at most campuses
• Professional development opportunities
• Fitness Passport access for you and your family
• EAP, health and wellbeing initiatives
• Meaningful work that drives positive social impact
• Career opportunities with one of Australia’s leading vocational education and training providers

The Essential Paperwork

• Working with Children Clearance (WWCC)
• Current police check
• Certified right to work documentation
• Certified copies of your qualifications and transcripts

Only applications from candidates with valid working rights will be considered. We are a child safe and equal opportunity employer, and the successful candidate will be required to hold a current Working with Children Check clearance.

We welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally and linguistically diverse people, LGBTIQA+ people and people of all ages.

Bendigo Kangan Institute acknowledges that our campuses are located on the ancestral lands of the Djaara people of Dja Dja Wurrung, Wurundjeri Peoples of the Kulin Nations, Yorta Yorta Nations and the Gunaikurnai people. The Institute respects their Elders past, present and emerging, their cultural heritage, and recognises their continuing connection to land, waters and culture.

Applications close: Thursday 5th November 2026

Applications will be assessed as they come in – we may start interviews before the closing date.

NOTE: Bendigo Kangan Institute reserves the right to withdraw this position at any time.