CSIRO is a preferred employer for early career researchers, and the Enterprise Services Graduate Program is a rare opportunity for non-research graduates to be part of the broader team solving impossible problems. As an Enterprise Services Graduate, you will be joining a team that prides itself on being an impact driven organisation.

As a graduate you will join other like-minded graduates on this experience together. You will be provided with support, mentoring, a structured 18-month learning and development program, and rotations within several different areas that align with your skillset and career aspirations. At the completion of this program, you will take what you have learnt to settle into one area of specialty to continue a great career with CSIRO.

What do we look for in our graduates?

A successful graduate for CSIRO will be a bright, ambitious, driven individual who is keen to thrive at Australia’s national science agency. As part of their respective support stream, they will partner with some of the brightest and most successful researchers in Australia and beyond, to achieve cutting edge work that has huge impact for the world. Solving Australia’s greatest challenges is impossible without graduates.

Streams Available:

We have graduate opportunities across our Enterprise Services portfolio.

People and Culture

Our People team provides support and services that mirror our world-class science capability. Our teams work collaboratively to support our people and leaders at different points of the Employee Lifecycle, while leading our focus on culture, diversity and inclusion.

Your grad experience in the People team will expose you to the employee lifecycle across a science, engineering and professional services environment.

IT

Our team provides a range of secure information management and technology (IM&T) services, from hardware needs, cyber security and software tools to records management and high-performance supercomputing to give CSIRO the edge in the digital age.

The team play a leading role in the delivery of CSIRO’s continuing digital transformation and support the organisation’s evolution into Australia's national science agency of the future.

As a graduate you could be involved in cyber security, business applications, web infrastructure, networks and more.

Finance

The Finance team supports CSIRO to assert and demonstrate our ability to be financially responsible, accountable and produce value to the nation through sound and transparent financial processes, procedures, and decision making. We also look after procurement and travel.

Your graduate rotations could include budgets, financial accounting, performance and reporting, operations and more.

Compliance, Risk and Governance

Our Governance team is responsible for facilitating CSIRO's legal and regulatory compliance through organisational frameworks, policies and procedures and direct advice.

Your graduate rotations will involve work that is governance related and ensures we meet our legislative obligations as Australia’s national science agency.

Property and Services

CSIRO’s Business and Infrastructure Services manage the construction, major upgrades, provision, operation and maintenance of CSIRO's properties including more than 890 buildings across 50 Australian sites. From office sites to state-of-the-art labs and the world-famous Parkes Murriyang Telescope. Our Strategy Team leads the work on CSIRO’s Sustainability Strategy 2020-2030 includes a cohesive CSIRO-wide vision, strategic objectives, activities and initiatives, governance, metrics and reporting relating to CSIRO’s environmental and social impacts. The Strategy brings us in line with Australia’s commitments to the UN Sustainable Development Goals Commonwealth Procurement Rules, National Waste Action Plan, and Australia’s Technology Investment Roadmap, including the path to Net Zero Emissions. The Enterprise Project Management Office are key to delivering a common, cohesive and consistent approach to project delivery and change management within CSIRO. The Security and Resilience team protect our people, information and assets.

Your graduate experience rotations could involve our many property projects for our national facilities and security requirements.

Strategy

CSIRO’s Strategy function facilitate and drive the development, execution, and measurement of CSIRO’s enterprise strategy for solving Australia’s greatest challenges. The function does that with a focus on impact and in partnership with the business to enable effective accountability and cascade of the strategy.

As a Strategy graduate your work could involve supporting strategy planning and development, environmental scanning, market research and insights generation, performance management and impact assessment, including program design, change management, and much more.

Business Development and Commercialisation

Our Growth function supports delivery of CSIRO’s strategy to deliver maximum impact for the nation and to sustain the long-term financial health of the organisation. It works across customer management, commercialisation and equity, global engagement, intellectual property, commercial law, and program design and management. The team helps identify suitable markets, linking world-class scientific developments with industry, and help take research from the lab bench to the market, creating real-world economic, environmental, and society-wide value.

As a graduate your work could involve experience in business development, intellectual property management, commercial contracting and much more.

Office of the Chief Scientist

The Office of the Chief Scientist sponsors and supports CSIRO research directions and quality, university engagement, science excellence and research integrity and leads our Indigenous Science Program. We’re growing CSIRO’s international and national reputation as a thought leader, catalysing the impact of Australia’s innovation ecosystem with vibrant relationships with universities and research institutes. The Office builds CSIRO’s strategic capability to solve Australia’s greatest challenges with initiatives to support cutting-edge, impact-driven science.

With such a wide-ranging scope, your graduate rotations will depend on your education background and interests.

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