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TradeStart Adviser Jobs in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia at Tech Council of Australia
Title: TradeStart Adviser
Company: Tech Council of Australia
Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
TradeStart Adviser
Sydney or Melbourne – Hybrid (3 days in office)
This is an exciting role born from a partnership between the Tech Council of Australia (TCA) and the Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade). The TradeStart Adviser will play a pivotal role in driving the international success of Australia’s innovative technology businesses, with a focus on subsectors like artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced ICT, and autonomous technologies.
The TradeStart Adviser will provide tailored support to help Australia’s best technology companies to export. As a trusted advisor, you will help businesses unlock global opportunities, expand into international markets, and strengthen Australia’s global technology profile.
This role highlights the commitment of TCA and Austrade to collaborate to bolster the Australian tech ecosystem. Together, these organisations recognise the immense value of supporting tech businesses at every step of their international journey, from navigating export challenges to breaking into global markets.
Who We Are
- The Tech Council of Australia (TCA) provides a trusted voice and support for Australia’s technology industry. Representing the full spectrum of tech companies, TCA advises and engages with governments, businesses, and the community to support the development and adoption of technology across industries.
- Austrade promotes Australian trade, investment, tourism, and education globally. Austrade supports Australian businesses by unlocking opportunities that help them grow internationally, leveraging deep market expertise and trusted global networks.
This is your chance to be part of something exciting, and impactful. If you are passionate about helping Australian technology businesses achieve global success, we want to hear from you.
Key Outcomes You’ll Deliver
- Work independently to identify and work with a portfolio of high export potential technology businesses, to provide strategic advice and develop action plans to achieve their export potential by entering or expanding into a new market.
- Support the development and delivery of international programs (such as trade missions), that help technology clients to understand and access international markets.
- Develop and maintain quality connections with Australia's technology industry stakeholders and understand the nature of the ecosystem.
- Support the TCA membership offering, by supporting existing members to export, and facilitating membership leads to TCA.
- Collaborate with TCA members and the TCA policy team to identify barriers to international expansion.
- Enhance collaboration between Austrade, TCA, Commonwealth, State and Territory governments and other organisations (including international trade organisations and government agencies) to provide integrated services to exporters.
- Use shared data and intelligence to drive strategy and alignment between TCA and key trade partners both onshore and offshore where appropriate.
- Represent TCA and Austrade in a variety of settings, including presenting at industry events, and participating in meetings with governments, trade organisations, universities and businesses.
- Use TCA and Austrade CRM and other digital systems to track and support client engagement
- Prepare and share knowledge and analysis for board reports and TCA, Austrade and external stakeholder briefing materials.
- Ownership of achieving and reporting (including to Austrade) on outcomes, including the number of high-potential clients actively supported, export readiness uplift, and successful market entries achieved.
- Work collaboratively with other Trade Start advisors and Austrade trade advisors including undertaking training from Austrade, participating in working groups and implementing Austrade strategies and policies.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
- Deep connections into Australia’s tech ecosystem, including an ability to identify high export potential firms.
- Deep experience in supporting high export potential technology firms with meaningful growth strategies that support exporting.
- An understanding of exporting from Australia, whether through direct experience in a business or through advice and consulting.
- An ability to manage a large and diverse portfolio of clients, developing and maintaining relationships, locally and internationally.
- Experience working with or in Government.
- Experience using CRMs to record and analyse data to enhance client service delivery.
- Australian citizenship – our successful candidate must be an Australian citizen.
- Security clearance – our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.
- Ability to work independently.
- Strong organisation and administrative skills including attention to detail.
- Outstanding people skills, with an ability to relate to others at all levels.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and energised by a fast-moving, founder-facing environment.
- A collaborative team player who genuinely gets excited about helping founders win internationally.
Remuneration and Conditions of Employment
- Reports to Head of Industry Programs
- Total remuneration: $140,000 – $160,000 (+ super) depending on experience.
- You will also be entitled to:
- (i) mobile phone reimbursement of up to $70 per month.
- (ii) salary packaging benefit, with the ability to utilise up to $15,900 of living expenses and $2,700 in meal allowance.
- Position is an initial 2-year contract role, with a 6-month probation period
- This role is expected to require domestic and international travel.
- Flexible work from home arrangements are available, but at least 3 days per week must be in the office
How to Apply
To be considered for this role, you must attach a PDF document answering our three screening questions below as your cover letter. For each answer, please ensure you explicitly include how you measured the impact or success of your work.
- Community: Tell us about a community you built from the ground up. How did you get it started, what changed as it grew, and what difference did it make?
- Founder relationships + pipeline: Across a portfolio of founders preparing to export, has there been a time you had to tell one something they didn't want to hear? What did you say and what was the outcome?
- Export stages: Tell us about how you've supported a portfolio of companies into international markets. Pick one as your main example, walk us through your role and the outcome, and explain how your approach differs depending on the stage of the business.
Applications close 3rd July 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
