[1][3] Following her graduation, she returned to Presbyterian Ladies' College as sports mistress, and in 1920 moved to Invercargill, New Zealand, to take up the position of headmistress of Southland Girls' High School.

[1] In 1921 she moved again, to Sydney, and became principal of the Presbyterian Ladies' College in Pymble[5] after the resignation of Gladys Gordon Everett.

[7] In 1934, Jobson founded Hopewood House, a finishing school for girls which taught homecraft and secretarial studies.

She also wanted girls to have an ethic of community service and the schools she ran were involved with welfare work in hospitals and Christian organisations.

[1] Jobson was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1955, for services to education in Australia.