Expression of interest - Intern

Join the Nous talent network! Would you like to be informed about upcoming opportunities?

Please register your interest and we will keep you in the loop. 

We’re always on the lookout for future Nousers. Express your interest in a intern role with Nous by completing an online application where you can showcase your skills and experience. Once we have received your expression of interest, we’ll review your skills and expertise in line with our business needs, if we have a vacant position aligned to your skills and experiences, we will get in touch with further details. If we do not have current vacancies aligned to your area of expertise, we would like to keep your application on file and get in touch if something becomes available. 

We encourage you keep an eye on Nous’ LinkedIn and careers pages for new roles. 

We look for smart, energetic, highly capable people for the future of Nous. As an Intern, you will work across a range of teams to deliver projects, including engaging clients and their stakeholders, undertaking data analysis, and assisting to prepare deliverables across a range of formats that distil analysis into clear and compelling recommendations for clients.

Ideal candidates for are:

• Passionate about doing work that matters and creates positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and creativity.
• Motivated to deliver high quality work and outcomes for clients and colleagues, underpinned by a consistent commitment to professionalism.
• Intellectually flexible and curious with the ability to learn quickly across a range of subject matters and apply what you learn to real-world problems.
• Well organised with the ability to manage multiple pieces of work simultaneously.
• Resilient with the ability to thrive in fast-paced, uncertain, and intense working environments.
• Capable of working autonomously including by taking the initiative to draw on the expertise of those around you.

Our interns excel in:

• Problem-solving skills, including the ability to analyse qualitative and quantitative data.
• Written and verbal communication skills, including clear and compelling structured thinking.
• Interpersonal skills including the ability to provide and respond to feedback and navigate uncertain environments with clients and colleagues. 

What we do...

Nous offer expert consulting services across a range of services including business strategy, public policy, organisational capability and development, transformational change, and digital strategy and capability. 

A snapshot of recent projects: 

• developing a strategy to respond to key health system challenges and reforms including the use of health analytics and technology 
• re-designing education innovation functions and organisation design for major universities 
• generating solutions using advanced data analytics techniques to better design policy, strategy, and services 
• developing an evidence base and strategy to inform Victoria’s offshore wind program
• designing a strategy for a major Australian bank to grow overseas operations
• reviewing care coordination for Indigenous Australians with chronic disease, using data analytics and drawing on consultations with service providers and Indigenous clients 
• the implementation of a financial service providers’ new leadership and cultural change
• using co-design techniques, worked with victims and perpetrators of family violence to create a service development plan for a contact centre. 

More about Nous

Nous is an international management consultancy with over 650 people working with clients across Australasia, the United Kingdom, and North America. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success. 

Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2025 Nous was again named one of Australia’s Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognised as one of LinkedIn’s best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia). We have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review on a number of occasions and a Great Place to Work every year that we’ve entered (Australia). We’re excited to be extending success and influence globally having recently been awarded a Great Place to Work in Canada and the UK in 2025. 

Finally, some important details...

Nous is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Nous is a flexible workplace that offers consulting opportunities on a full-time and part-time basis.

If you have experience working on complex problems, are high performing and productive in a fast-paced environment, and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you! Please register your interest to join Nous’ talent network now!

To apply for a role at Nous in Australia you must have Australian Permanent Residency or right to work in Australia.