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SalaryAt Melbourne Water we love water and love life. What we do makes a vital contribution to Melbourne's famous lifestyle. We achieve this by supplying high quality drinking water, providing outstanding sewerage services, integrating drainage systems, building resilience to flooding and by enhancing our waterway and land for greater community use. At Melbourne Water we are in the 'Decade that Matters' and we've got some ambitious goals to achieve. It's a pride we share in helping to make greater Melbourne a fantastic place to live.
The Role
Reporting to the Senior Manager Sustainable & Resilient Futures this exciting role is accountable for strategic climate, environmental and social resilience planning, alongside the identification of emerging risks and opportunities.
This will be achieved through:
- Support the development of Melbourne Water's sustainability framework to ensure enterprise-wide decision-making aligns with current global best practice.
- Support the development of social sustainability and resilience elements of Melbourne Water's sustainability framework and action plan.
- With the Principal, Climate Resilience lead and develop Melbourne Water's overarching Climate Resilience program and capability.
- Lead development of Climate Resilience aligned work which enhances adaptation and resilience in our region.
- Enable Melbourne Water to understand and meet its ESG obligations.
- Lead the delivery of complex projects with minimal supervision, identify problems and appropriate solutions.
- Experience and knowledge in ESG, TCFD and emerging frameworks including TNFD, TIFD
- Experience and knowledge in climate, resilience, adaptation and sustainability
- Extensive experience managing projects in challenging environments.
- Strategic thinking and demonstrated ability to develop a clear way forward on complex issues.
- Tertiary qualification in sustainability, climate change, systems thinking or related field.
- Knowledge of legislation and policy relevant to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and emissions reduction
- Demonstrated ability to influence change and drive organisation wide change.
- Sound understanding of strategies and policies and their application, with regard to climate.
- Ability to work across the business to lead change through both formal and informal governance structures.
Culture at Melbourne Water
We take enormous pride in cultivating a culture that holistically benefits our team and the wider Melbourne community. The pillars of our culture are based on Flexibility, Impact, Growth & Development, and People.
- We are committed to flexible working in a variety of manners including hybrid work, varied start/finish times, purchased leave, part time work, and 9 day fortnights. We understand that Melbourne Water and our customers are benefitted by enabling balance in work and life.
- We relish learning and challenging the status quo for continuous growth. Perpetual and varied opportunities for learning and development are offered in a variety of manners - from formal development programs, digital learning content and lunch & learns; to visiting our sites and getting to see our initiatives and projects first hand.
- People are the foundation for all that we do. Our people are warm, welcoming, and inclusive.
- We welcome applications from everyone, including people with disability, mature age and young job seekers, members of the LGBTI+ community, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds. Melbourne Water welcomes and encourages applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
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Closing date: January 15th at 11:55pm AEST
Advertised:
07 Dec 2023 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
Closing:
14 Jan 2024 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight Time
