Learning, Leadership & Capability Manager
Who We Are
Contour was founded in 2020 by students who saw that the quality of your education was basically a lottery. Teachers stretched thin by the system, learning materials that varied from school to school, and support that stopped the moment you left the classroom.
We began with 5 students in a room. Today 15,000+ students have trusted Contour as their academic partners, and we've grown to 500+ team members across 10 campuses in Australia. In 2025 we ranked #8 on the AFR Fast 100 of fastest-growing companies.
We've produced hundreds of 99+ ATARs, tutored the world-record UCAT scorer, and placed 850+ students into medical and dental schools across Australia.
Contour is made up of three brands:
- Contour Education → academic performance in high school
- Contour MedPrep → entry into medical and dental schools
- Contour TestPrep → entry into selective and scholarship schools
Contour is built by students, for students.
What You Will Do
- Partner with purpose → Sit alongside our Team Leaders as a genuine strategic partner on their people, performance, and culture, not a service desk.
- Coach every day → Coach Team Leaders through the real stuff, difficult conversations, team dynamics, first-time-leader nerves, and build their judgement, not their dependence.
- Grow every team member → Own onboarding, induction, and career pathways, so a real growth story at Contour isn’t reserved for people who become leaders.
- Own the Academy → Take full ownership of the Contour Leadership Academy, an established program, and elevate it: sharper content, deeper embedding, better outcomes.
- Decode behaviour → Run Predictive Index debriefs that turn data into real self-awareness for our leaders and teams.
- Own the framework → Lead Contour’s organisation-wide learning framework, onboarding through to cross-functional skills through to leadership capability.
- Build what’s next → Recruit, develop, and lead a junior leadership coaching team as your reach grows, your team, built by you.
- Bring the data → Use engagement and team feedback signals to know exactly where leadership needs support, and go be that support.
What You Will Bring
- Real experience as a strategic people partner: trusted by leaders, not just tolerated by them.
- Genuine coaching chops, and a real belief that developing others beats doing it for them.
- Broad L&D experience, onboarding, career pathways, capability programs, not a leadership-only background, with leadership as your genuine specialism.
- Real facilitation chops: you can hold a room, read it, and adjust on the fly.
- A working knowledge of adult learning principles, and the instinct to apply them, not just cite them.
- Predictive Index practitioner accreditation, or genuine enthusiasm to obtain it fast.
- The ambition to build and lead a team, not just fill a seat.
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Organisational Psychology, Education, or a related field desirable.
Why You Will Love It
- Real partnership → You are a genuine strategic partner to our Team Leaders, not an admin layer underneath them.
- Reach → Everything you build, onboarding, career pathways, capability, reaches every team member who joins us, not only our leaders.
- Impact → Ninety-plus Team Leaders, most of them leading for the first time, and your coaching and the Academy reach every one of them.
- Ownership → The Academy is proven and running. You take it to its next level, and it becomes unmistakably yours.
- Growth → An explicit, real mandate to build and lead a coaching team as you prove the model out.
- Culture → Join a founder-led organisation that genuinely cares about students, people, and progress.
- Momentum → Be part of one of AFR’s fastest-growing startups, scaling year on year, interstate and beyond.
- Reward → Competitive salary ($140–$160K AUD + super), plus hybrid flexibility, extra leave, EAP access, and lifestyle perks.
How to Apply
This is more than a training role. It’s building how every person grows at Contour, and the leaders who shape the experience of every student we serve.
Application Process
- Submit your application
- Shortlisted candidates will complete a behavioural and video interview assessment
- Final in-person interview