Graduate Opportunities

Do you want to help shape Australia’s future?

We are an organisation offering challenging and diverse careers in a high profile and complex environment.  We are committed to ensuring Australia has the best possible services in immigration, border protection, and citizenship.  We are looking for graduates to join us in an organisation that is open, client focused and supports our staff to achieve excellence.  Our 7000 employees work in more than 100 locations in Australia and overseas.

Our culture and values

The department is a people focused organisation and has adopted the phrase people our business to highlight the priority it places on its key stakeholders – its clients and its own staff. Our purpose, to  ‘enrich Australia through the well managed entry and settlement of people’ is an integral focus of how the department employees seek to make a difference each day. The department strives to implement continuous improvement to deliver the governments migration, refugee, humanitarian, citizenship, multicultural affairs, settlement, immigration compliance and immigration detention programs. To meet the challenges of the dynamic global environment, our organisation is flexible, professional, innovative, and works to the highest ethical standards. The department is committed to providing high quality client service and fostering a co-operative work environment.

What we offer our graduates

Graduates work on issues as diverse as international intelligence, people smuggling, electronic visas, refugees and asylum seekers, multicultural affairs, migration and migrant communities, overseas student programs or tourism, finance and human resources and information technology and business systems.

The Graduate Development Program is a 10 month learning and development program, including formal training blocks, on the job learning and development across the department. The program comprises of rotations designed to give graduates an opportunity to experience a range of operational and policy work across the department. After completing the program, graduates are well-placed to compete for advancement across the department.

Remuneration: Successful applicants will be offered an attractive remuneration package, including salary, superannuation benefits and flexible working conditions appropriate to the level of the position.