You can’t hunt a unicorn: they show up in the meadow they like best

We are constantly networking and searching for the best talent across a very wide range of skill sets and experiences. Please see the roles that we are actively recruiting for below. We have both freelance and employment opportunities available, for local and for international client projects. Most projects are currently remote, with some requiring occasional ground time. Additionally, we have a number of scarce skill areas that we are offering upskill strategies for.

ZOO ANIMALS

We have employment roles available for people who prefer to belong long term to teams, with stable and safe earning and capability ownership.

WILD Animals

We have freelance and independent contracting roles available for people who prefer multi-client, part time or more flexible opportunities.

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The single most important thing about our capability is our team of talented people.

roles we have opportunities for

We are constantly recruiting for the following key roles.
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EMPANDA PROJECT MANAGER
“Talent wins games, but teamwork wins championships”
We are looking for outstanding project managers to lead eLearning content development projects. We have both employment and contract roles available. It is helpful if you have eLearning, content development or production management experience.

Motivation

A passion for learning and a desire to be part of engagements that lead to evolution, kindness, and connection.

Attitude

  • Creatively organised
  • Rigidly flexible
  • Dynamically stable

Dislikes

Thoughtless action, disorganisation, unmanaged scope creep, disappointed clients and unhappy teams.

Needs

Opportunity to organise and lead exciting initiatives, with stunning talent, on creative journeys toward learning outcomes.

Essential Skills

  • Project management
  • Client stakeholder engagement
  • Emotional intelligence and leadership

Experience & Qualifications

  • Project management accreditation
  • Corporate project experience
  • Learning and training project experience
EMPANDA INTERN
“The expert in anything was once a beginner”
We are looking for inquisitive minds, hearts set on seeking their niche and passion, looking for a place to call home in an environment that thrives on change and adaptability, where speed is our currency and agility our exchange rate.

Motivation

A passion for finding a fresh purpose – something to set the soul afire. Deep desire to learn about the possibilities Empanda can offer.

Attitude

  • Seriously Enthusiastic
  • Adventurously Loyal
  • Resiliently Bendy

Dislikes

Being pigeonholed, labelled, boxed or determined. Uncomfortable with the traditional, archaic and old world of work.

Needs

Opportunity to grow and explore new multimedia skills. With mentors and experienced practitioners to guide the way.

Essential Skills

  • Brilliant Microsoft Office Suite
  • Fantastic verbal and visual literacy
  • Ultimate Team Player

Experience & Qualifications

  • Tertiary education or relevant qualification
  • > 2 years writing or visual work experience
  • A great reference from somewhere
CHANGE MANAGER
“Be like a flower, survive the rain, and use it to grow”
We are looking for authentic, innovative, and creative change managers to work on remote projects. We are especially interested in people with retail, ICT, and financial services experience.

Motivation

A deep-rooted desire to explicitly contribute to wellbeing and sustainability of people and our planet.

Attitude

  • Patiently impatient
  • Assertively gentle
  • Practically imaginative

Dislikes

Injustice, disadvantage, confusion, disarray, fatigue, boredom, conflict, and cruelty (planned or unplanned).

Needs

A creative, collaborative, caring home, where innovation is valued, dreams are shared and where we can safely belong.

Essential Skills

  • Change and business advisory skills
  • Both creativity and analytical prowess
  • Emotional intelligence and resilience

Experience & Qualifications

  • Change accreditation or project experience
  • >4 years' experience at mid-senior level
  • A dynamic reference
CHANGE AGENT NETWORK COACH
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve”
We are looking for deeply experienced change practitioners who no longer want full time roles, but who are excited by the opportunity to coach junior emergent partitioners or business change agents.

Motivation

A primordial need to nurture, inspire and mentor others to overcome the hurdles and challenges that present barriers to personal evolution.

Attitude

  • Safely Inspiring
  • Organically Structured
  • Accountably Delegated

Dislikes

Excuses and static, prevailing cultures of disempowered victimhood where we seek to blame our environment for our lack of progress.

Needs

A flexible opportunity to play to personal mentoring strengths, deploying ever evolving coaching and mentoring best practice.

Essential Skills

  • A blend of change advisory and learning skills
  • Excellent process and ICT understanding
  • Stakeholder engagement and influencing skills

Experience & Qualifications

  • Change management qualification
  • >8 years big transformation project experience
  • Coaching accreditation or experience
HUMAN CAPITAL CONSULTANT
“Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act”
We are looking for ICT savvy HR advisory consultants with corporate experience of organisational development, organisation design, and HR functional innovations and best practices.

Motivation

Inspired by enabling structures where creativity can flourish responsibly as human capacity is directed towards a greater strategic intent.

Attitude

  • Friendly Firmness
  • Analytically creative
  • Compassionately disciplined

Dislikes

The sufferance of people within outdated and outmoded HR transactional machines that enslave good HR people to the wrong work.

Needs

Flexible advisory opportunities to play within teams, as part of a multi-skilled, blended and creative engagement.

Essential Skills

  • Organisational development and design
  • HCM ICT platform functional understanding
  • Performance and productivity best practices

Experience & Qualifications

  • HR or similar accreditation or qualification
  • Experience with HR Advisory projects
  • Experience as an HR Business Partner
COMMUNICATION CONSULTANT
“Engaging on our journey is about listening to stories and sharing them”
We are looking for intelligent, creative and innovative communication consultants that can understand and operate in complex environments, whilst delivering beautifully, simple, engaging outcomes.

Motivation

Enjoys crafting a communique, with a clear intention, perfectly targeted to land a trackable "aha" moment, that shifts the world forward.

Attitude

  • Briefly Eloquent
  • Strategically Creative
  • Systematically Vibrant

Dislikes

Bad alignment, typos and the obvious violation of a visual identity. Enraged by failures in editorial process, or lazy listening.

Needs

A role where communication intelligence is valued, where creativity is celebrated, and where innovative change is the order of the day.

Essential Skills

  • Exceptional listener, planner and tracker
  • Superb creative visualisation and design
  • Impeccable writer and wordsmith

Experience & Qualifications

  • Tertiary qualification in Communication
  • >3 years experience in similar role
  • A stunning reference
SUCCESS MANAGER
“Releasing sunbeams of joy, as we all work together”
We are looking for bright, personable people who are interested in helping others navigate learning pathways by providing success management support, engagement and communications.

Motivation

Motivated by the idea of leading teams and individuals on journeys through cyberspace, overcoming challenges to achieve the goal.

Attitude

  • Ruthlessly Caring
  • Flexibly Supportive
  • Humanly Technical

Dislikes

Offended when others are excluded, left behind, confused or neglected, when it’s clear a moment of kindness could have made all the difference.

Needs

A people-centric role that offers a learning opportunity that can translate into a navigable, future career prospect.

Essential Skills

  • Excellent written and verbal communication
  • Intuitive, empathetic and people orientated
  • Hard worker, with a strong sense of duty

Experience & Qualifications

  • BA degree or tertiary qualification
  • Demonstrable interest in a creative pursuit
  • Experience as a care giver, trainer or enabler
INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGNER
“Storytelling is the oldest form of education”
We are looking for intelligent, creative and innovative instructional designers that have a true passion for designing interactive and effective learning that engages, enables and evolves people.

Motivation

A deep passion for gorgeous learning products and exceptional training interventions that inspire and inform learners.

Attitude

  • Constantly Upskilling
  • Creatively Structured
  • Introvertedly Extrovert

Dislikes

Unstructured, unimaginative learning that does not inspire true learning. Frustrated by work that ticks boxes rather than objectives.

Needs

A people-centric role that offers a learning opportunity that can translate into a navigable, future career prospect.

Essential Skills

  • Creative Storytelling
  • Powerful ability to think in pictures
  • Immaculate, simple use of language

Experience & Qualifications

  • Accreditations in course design & assessment
  • >4 years' impactful instructional design
  • A cool project reference
GRAPHIC DESIGNER
“We gravitate to simplicity and beauty, in this crazy world”
We are looking for exceptionally talented and creative graphic designers and illustrators that are obsessed with creating gorgeous visuals and are excited by learning new skills and growing their portfolio.

Motivation

Creative gigs where a diverse and evolving array of great work is available alongside opportunity to advance design thinking and learning.

Attitude

  • Intentionally Creative
  • Independently Collaborative
  • Inspirationally Aligned

Dislikes

A place where innovation and creativity are stifled and unwelcome. Unclear briefs, poor collaboration, and conservative thinking.

Needs

A flexible and agile world of work with inspiring colleagues and the opportunity to stretch and innovate design boundaries.

Essential Skills

  • Excellent listener, adapts design with grace
  • Immaculate and Professional Creative Suite
  • Experience with Creative Workflow

Experience & Qualifications

  • Accreditation in Graphic Design
  • >3 years' experience on dynamic projects
  • A cool reference and portfolio
ANIMATOR
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
We are looking for animators with great visualisation and design skills to join our creative team – true artists with a passion for creating compelling visuals translated from engaging scripts, breathing life into words and ideas.

Motivation

Takes joy bringing stories to life with funky characters, gorgeous imagery, deliberate icons and infographics, and purposeful audio.

Attitude

  • Intentionally Creative
  • Independently Collaborative
  • Realistically Inventive

Dislikes

An unstructured, stifling box, where creativity and inspiration dies, stealing away potential and the boring, churn of recycling the old.

Needs

A collaborative, creative environment where unique ideas translate stories to an emotional, universal language, inspiring learning and adventure.

Essential Skills

  • After Effects and / or Camtasia
  • Sound Editing and Post Production
  • A Graphic Design Foundation

Experience & Qualifications

  • Formal training in Animation or Graphic Design
  • >4 years' experience
  • A captivating reference and showreel
ARTICULATE STORYLINER
“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
We are looking for content developers that are confident and experienced in using Articulate 360 products to create interactive, effective eLearning experiences and are eager to learn and grow their creative skills.

Motivation

A passion for the learner that drives the creation of a seamless, intuitive, interactive experience; which delights and educates.

Attitude

  • Creatively Geeky
  • Creatively Disciplined
  • Meticulously Interactive

Dislikes

Next, next, next eLearning that fails to embrace the interactive potential of a learning experience and the over use of a limited range of icons.

Needs

Total clarity on the target audience and learning objectives that informs the build and design of an effective product that engages & empowers.

Essential Skills

  • Articulate Storyline and Rise
  • Storyboarding and Instructional Design
  • Graphic design foundation

Experience & Qualifications

  • Demonstrable Articulate 360 experience
  • >4 years’ project experience
  • A stunning reference and portfolio of work
VIDEO EDITOR
“Perhaps the only true magician we have is the artist”
We are looking for audiovisual gurus, who excel at conceptualising and directing on-screen initiatives with unparalleled precision where passion and purpose collide to inform, entertain and delight.

Motivation

Leveraging the current demand for video to tell important stories that inform, teach, and upskill viewers globally.

Attitude

  • Patiently Excited
  • Creatively Technical
  • Playfully Structured

Dislikes

Excessive use of the same standard video stock footage. Discontinuity and a lack of flow in a story, and theft of intellectual property.

Needs

A space where creativity and structure meet with collaboration and inspiration to vision and execute the story that must be told.

Essential Skills

  • Film editing and postproduction
  • Sound recording and voiceover production
  • A foundation in media and design

Experience & Qualifications

  • Relevant Media Production Qualification
  • >4 years' experience
  • A captivating reference and showreel
VIDEOGRAPHER
“Step out of your own perspective and see the world as it sees itself”
We are looking for the experienced, passionate videographers, whose timing in capturing perfect blends of storytelling is impeccably accurate and accentuates the visual journey of our learners.

Motivation

The challenge of capturing magnitude in a single frame, with just the right amount of focus on the juxtapose.

Attitude

  • Quietly Confident
  • Innovatively Structured
  • Purposefully Flexible

Dislikes

Monotonous, stale, boring assignments which bear no platform for creativity, discovery and authenticity.

Needs

Exciting projects which determinedly challenges the depth of their skillset, creating scope for breakthroughs and accomplishments.

Essential Skills

  • Videography production plan and scheduling
  • Videography and film production
  • Exceptional Interpersonal Skills

Experience & Qualifications

  • Relevant Media Production Qualification
  • >4 years' experience
  • A captivating reference and showreel
SAP ENABLE NOW
“Rockets are cool, there’s no getting around that”
We are looking for skilled SAP Instructional Designers and Content Developers, particularly those with SAP Enable Now (SEN) Administrator and Authoring skills to join our content development projects:

Motivation

Purposefully passionate about the technical creation of a space that works seamlessly and empowers people to create and design exceptional, intuitive learning.

Attitude

  • Innovatively Organised
  • Creatively Strategic
  • Meticulously Inventive

Dislikes

Disorganised ways of working and havoc in a technical environment. Frustration around machine, tech and people that don’t work together.

Needs

A structured environment, technically set up for success with competent devices and people that can navigate the world of SEN

Essential Skills

  • SAP EnableNow
  • SAP Training and Instructional Design
  • Understanding of a range of SAP Modules

Experience & Qualifications

  • 3+ years SAP Training Project Experience
  • 3+ years SEN / WPB / SPP Project Experience
  • SAP EnableNow Certification
SAP TRAINER
“A teacher takes a hand, opens a mind and touches a heart”
We are looking for experienced SAP Trainers who are passionate about the SAP world of work and supporting learning pathways. Great communicators, comfortable trotting the globe both virtually and in the real world.

Motivation

Passion for learning and interacting with people in different situations and settings. Excited about unlocking the potential they see in others.

Attitude

  • Deliberately Emphatic
  • Assertively Friendly
  • Seriously Energetic

Dislikes

Ill-prepared and poorly planned training interventions that bore learners with dull content and unstructured workshops.

Needs

A chance to show up and shine with a spectacular training toolkit that delights and engages learners from start to end.

Essential Skills

  • Virtual and face to face training facilitation skill
  • Understanding of a range of SAP modules
  • Fundamentals of change management

Experience & Qualifications

  • 3+ years SAP Training Project Experience
  • Experience delivering handholding and support
  • SAP certifications valued