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- Enhance your lab skills and field experience through a multi-faceted role
- Support research scientists in a range of field & project activities
- Full-time opportunity in a cohesive team with access to flexible working arrangements
- Assist or lead planning and implementation of workshops for expert elicitation of ecosystem knowledge and other purposes, including management of ethics and privacy approvals.
- Assist or lead planning, organisation and safe undertaking of a varied field work program, potentially including flora and fauna surveys using traditional and novel monitoring approaches.
- Manage field and expert-elicited data and format for ingestion into digital formats for databases and spatial data, for example using the Fulcrum app.
- Manage other project logistics such as coordination and processing of soils and specimens, ensuring availability of vehicles, equipment and resources.
- Manage and undertake effective communication with diverse stakeholders.
- Contribute to managing and developing written material for projects such as booklets for the Australian Ecosystem Models Framework, workshop summaries and reporting
- Participate in project planning by contributing to evaluating options, experimental design, data collection and analysis, user and customer research, user experience and/or software design, implementation and delivery.
- This pay range is inclusive of both CSOF4 and CSOF5 pay levels and applications are invited across two capability levels. The successful candidate will be appointed at a level that is commensurate with their qualifications, skills and relevant experience - see the position description for further details.
- Relevant Bachelors/Masters degree and/or equivalent relevant work experience in applied ecological sciences.
- Demonstrated excellent organisational capacity and interpersonal skills applicable to leading project components and to planning and implementing workshops and field days, including management of ethics and privacy and respectful interactions with experts and collaborators.
- Prior experience in terrestrial ecological monitoring and leading ecological fieldwork in a safe manner, including ability and availability to travel remotely for up to 10 days at a time.
- Demonstrated capacity for meticulous and efficient data collection, management and processing, adhering to information management principles and standards.
- Strong communication skills, including managing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, partners and clients, and willingness to build skills in workshop facilitation.
- A current Australian driver's licence, willingness to undertake first-aid and 4WD training if required, and a strong commitment to the practice of Health, Safety & Environment.
- Competency in identification of plants and/or fauna groups and an understanding of experimental design principles, or strong willingness and ability to learn these skills.
- Experience or aptitude to develop skills in Geographic Information Systems.
- Demonstrated understanding of issues that affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and communities, and ability to communicate sensitively and effectively within the appropriate cultural framework.