Natural Assets Leader

Play a pivotal role in protecting and enhancing our city's beautiful Natural Assets and areas.

• Lead a high performing team who focus on our city's Natural Assets and delivery of natural area works.
• Ongoing professional development, career advancement and growth opportunities.
• Enjoy a greater workplace experience with flexible hours, hybrid working model, nine-day fortnight, leaseback vehicle!

Let's explore the job

Our Environmental Systems Leadership Team are seeking a passionate Natural Assets Coordinator to join our team. You will be responsible for leading the high performing teams that look after the strategic planning and management of our city's Natural Assets and delivery of natural area works. This role is key in building and maintaining a culture of high service delivery and innovative solutions for our Natural Assets, taking a proactive approach to asset management.

You will support the organisational strategy through effective stakeholder engagement, collaboration, communication, evidence-based evaluation, and respond to the changing needs of the environment and the community.

Your other key focus areas include.

• Develop and manage a program of works for the city's natural areas and ensure successful delivery of related projects and programs guided by international best practice to improve ecosystem extent and condition.
• Contribute to Council's Community Strategic Plan, Operational Plan and departmental business plans and strategies.
• Design, implement and evaluate programs to facilitate an improvement in corporate and city ecosystem footprints, improve sustainable outcomes and fulfil Council's biodiversity offset obligations.
• Supervise, develop, train and motivate staff to achieve Council and departmental goals and policies.

Read the position statement (see below) and learn more about this exciting opportunity.

Let's describe you

Our ideal candidate is a highly motivated natural resource or environmental management professional with the ability to work strategically and has initiative to work autonomously and ensure objectives are met. You have a strong understanding of project management principles with the ability to prioritise conflicting tasks using a logical approach. Being proactive and solutions focused, you see issues through to resolution.

You have highly developed communication skills and an ability to build collaborative and effective relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.

You are an experienced people manager and are inspired by the idea of working in an ambitious team providing structure and vision, mentoring, training, and support in a positive and fast-paced environment. You will lead your team and bring them on the journey with you, driving your team toward a culture of innovation, best practice, and continuous improvement to deliver quality services and outcomes for the community.

You will have:

• Tertiary qualifications in environmental, natural resource management, or relevant science/engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated experience in developing policies and strategies to achieve measurable improvement in ecosystem extent and condition.
• Specialised knowledge and/or experience implementing aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem rehabilitation and protection projects.
• A thorough understanding of ecology and impacts on ecosystem structure and function from human activities; contemporary knowledge of effects of climate change on natural systems and ameliorating strategies at both global and local levels.
• Demonstrated ability to provide an innovative and professional workplace atmosphere for team members; demonstrated experience in effectively managing, developing, and motivating staff.

Let's reveal the perks

• Competitive salary from $119,727 - $139,143 a year plus industry leading 12% superannuation.
• Commencing salary set in line with skills and experience with annual reviews available to support movement through the salary range.
• 35-hour week with hybrid working model, flexible working hours and nine-day fortnight.
• Dynamic and empowering leadership team and a supportive team culture.
• We value your health and wellbeing and offer generous discounted gym memberships through our corporate fitness program, connect with colleagues through our social club, be inspired by regular wellbeing initiatives, annual flu vaccinations, and confidential support via our employee assistance (EAP) program.
• We are committed to being an employer of choice. We will do all we can to help you develop your skills, and make a difference, right from the start. We have a flexible workplace and focus on all aspects of your physical and mental health and safety. We want you to be with us for the long-term, so providing you with rich career experiences and ongoing development is our priority.
• New contemporary workspace with sit-stand desks, hot desking, collaboration spaces, café-style lunch spaces and coffee machines.
• Along with many other perks that come from choosing Lake Mac!

Choose the Lake Mac way

We know it is our people that will shape the future of our city. That's why we're passionate about providing a workplace that empowers our staff to be creative, innovative, and bold. When you join the team at Lake Macquarie City Council, you're joining a group of people with a commitment to make our city even better. We're proud of our city and the work we do, and we know you will be too.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workforce. We believe that a diverse network of employees, which truly reflects the people it serves and represents, is best equipped to understand, and meet the needs of our community. We welcome and encourage applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people from culturally diverse backgrounds, the LGBTIQ+ community, refugees, and people with disability. We understand the skills and attributes veterans can bring to our Council.

Please note that as part of Lake Macquarie City Council's recruitment process, prior to an offer of employment being made, recommended candidates may be subject to a medical assessment and other drugs testing.

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