Internal Coach (12 month Fixed Term Contract)

Job Description

This is a 12 month fixed term contract parental leave cover.

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

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Where and how you can work

Our flagship Sydney campus is uniquely Canva - an extension of our Surry Hills neighbourhood. It’s a thoughtfully designed space with plenty of room to collaborate, focus, and connect.

This role is based in Sydney, and we’re looking for someone who calls it home. Our hybrid way of working gives you the flexibility to work remotely, and to come together on campus for meaningful in-person collaboration and connection when it matters most. We trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

About the role

Canva has a dedicated Internal Coaching Team, made up of professional coaches sitting inside the People function, as part of the People Experience Group.

This isn't a traditional executive coaching or L&D role. It's a specialist coaching function focused on mindset and behaviour change, not skills training and not performance management.

The purpose of the Internal Coaching team is to create radical mindset transformation, helping Canvanauts:

• identify and overcome self sabotage and limiting beliefs

• unlock strengths and potential

• create lasting behavioural change

While coaching conversations may sometimes resemble psychology, the approach stays coaching-led: future-focused, action-focused, and built for meaningful change rather than long-term therapeutic support.

What you'll do

1:1 Coaching

• Structured 6-session coaching journeys, delivered fortnightly, one hour per session, over roughly 3 months.

• Developmental, not directive. Coaches don't tell people what to do they help coachees shift the beliefs and patterns underneath their behaviour, not just the behaviour itself.

• Each coach typically carries 15 to 28 active coachees at a time, depending on their other program load.

• Coaches also deliver Breakthrough Sessions: focused, single 60-minute sessions for someone working through one specific decision or pressure point.

• Around 60% of each week is dedicated to 1:1 coaching.

Group Coaching

• Coaches design and deliver group coaching programs such as a 3 month group coaching program focused on self-confidence and resilience, ran several times a year.

• Contribute and facilitating Leadership Programs at Canva

Team coaching

• Our Internal Coaches also facilitate team coaching requests. These are often 90min-2hr unblocking sessions, which are either once or or sometimes part of a longer team development journey.

Program contribution

• Alongside direct coaching, the work includes

  • designing coaching experiences and resources

  • contributing specialist expertise

  • attending team meetings

  • participating in working groups

You're probably a match if you

• Bring minimum 5 years dedicated professional 1:1 coaching experience, where coaching has been the primary role, not one part of a broader HR, L&D, or people leadership job.

• Have experience coaching across different levels, not exclusively senior leaders.

• Bring deep transformational coaching capability. Someone who works with root cause, not just surface behaviour.

• Have formal, recognised coach-specific training and accreditation such as Meta Coaching, Co-Active Coaching, Coach Masters Academy, Master Coaching Certification, Professional Coaching Certification, or another recognised transformational coaching methodology.

• Have a strong understanding of transformational coaching methodologies

What's in it for you?

Achieving our crazy big goals motivates us to work hard - and we do - but you'll experience lots of moments of magic, connectivity and fun woven throughout life at Canva, too. We also offer a stack of benefits to set you up for every success in and outside of work.

Check out lifeatcanva.com for more info.

Other stuff to know

We make hiring decisions based on your experience, skills and passion, as well as how you can enhance Canva and our culture. When you apply, please tell us the pronouns you use and any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process.

We celebrate all types of skills and backgrounds at Canva so even if you don’t feel like your skills quite match what’s listed above - we still want to hear from you!

Please note that interviews are conducted virtually.