yamagigu (First Nations Consulting) - 2025/26 Graduate Program

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Date: 30 May 2025

Location:
Melbourne, VIC, AU Darwin, NT, AU Canberra, ACT, AU Sydney, NSW, AU Brisbane, QLD, AU Perth, WA, AU Adelaide, SA, AU

Department: Strategy, Risk Transactions

Description:
Job Requisition ID: 37711

Build your skills on real client work and purpose-led projects that give back to local First Nations communities

Receive formal mentoring and professional development from First Nations leadership and employee groups

Opportunities to work with our national team, based in every state and territory (except Tasmania)

yamagigu is the largest First Nations consulting business in Australia. It combines market leading First Nations expertise with Deloitte’s global professional services to support the self-determination of First Nations communities.

A Wiradyuri word, “yamagigu”, translates to “Our purpose is to go with you” and encapsulates the spirit of partnership and shared journey.

We exist to enable meaningful change by providing valued professional services underpinned by our core principles of Truth, Respect, and Self-Determination. These services help support well-being, prosperity, and independence.

What makes us unique?

We see and experience the world differently - through a First Nations lens. We engage and understand through lived experience and provide solutions informed by First Nations knowledge and perspectives that have endured and adapted over tens of thousands of years.

We work alongside businesses, government, and communities to tackle complex commercial, environmental, and societal issues and design and deliver improved outcomes for First Nations people and communities.

Why work with us?

As a Supply Nation-certified Indigenous business, yamagigu is majority-owned, managed, and staffed by First Nations people with a passionate belief that First Nations peoples should be able to fulfil their aspirations.

What do we do?

We have opportunities for graduates to work across the following areas:

Digital and Transformation is the process of applying yamagigu’s approach with digital technologies to enable meaningful change by creating new — or modify existing — business models, products, processes, culture, and experiences to meet changing market conditions and community needs.

Economic Development is the process of building prosperity and wealth within communities to create meaningful change and grow the First Nations economy.

Sustainability, Human Rights and System Change embeds yamagigu’s approach into the policy cycle to enable meaningful change through conversation, reflection, and shared decision-making. yamagigu’s approach to Sustainability is inherently based on a First Nations worldview, prioritising First Nations Peoples as rights holders and decision-makers in efforts to care for country, address climate change, regenerate nature, and restore ecosystem integrity.

Advisory and Transactions to help businesses and communities unlock their economic potential by advising on complex commercial opportunities. We leverage our deep understanding of the challenges facing the First Nations Economy to support First Nations businesses, communities, and initiatives in achieving their commercial, community, and cultural aspirations.

Enough about us, let us talk about you.

You'll be a curious and passionate student who:
Has a clear passion and drive to design and deliver improved outcomes for First Nations people and communities

Depending on the area, you’ll need an interest in: Economics and public policy, Policy Advocacy, Environmental Stewardship, Financial Acumen, Cultural Competence

Possesses strong analytical and quantitative skills

Is a strong communicator – both verbally and written

Willing to travel interstate for client consultations

Is willing to engage with unlearning and re learning at times

Is an Australian permanent resident or Australian/New Zealand Citizenship
 
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