Senior Project Officer (Disaster Resilience)

Do you want to play an important role in building resilience in the management and conservation of our natural environment in the ACT? If so, we would like to hear from you.

The ACT Parks and Conservation service is looking for an motivated officer who can work with PCS teams to drive the development of a Disaster Resilience investment framework for PCS assets. This important project, supported by the Disaster Ready Fund will progress through to June 2025 and improve PCS' understanding of cost-effective, long-term approaches to investment in grey and blue-green assets within the ACT Reserve Estate under changing climates, disaster frequencies and intensities .

Working with key stakeholders of PCS, the Directorate and relevant industry professionals, the Resilience Officer will establish governance frameworks, collate information from a range of sources including spatial and assets data, bring officers together for focused workshops and work with industry to develop and deliver a best practice and contemporary methodology for decision making.

EPSDD is committed to attracting and retaining people with the skills, knowledge, and behaviours that will ensure we can deliver our Strategic Plan's vision, objectives and strategic indictors. We welcome creative thinkers who can communicate with candour, clarity and respect and have the focus and dedication to help lead projects from conception through to delivery. Our purpose together is to plan and sustain our natural and built environments and make the ACT a place of choice today and into the future. We aim to be informed, connected, adaptive and innovative in everything we do.

The position requires knowledge of natural resource management, project management, procurement, assets management and stakeholder management to deliver this key priority for PCS.

The ACT Public Service supports workforce diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive workplace. As part of this commitment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, culturally diverse people and those who identify as LGBTIQ are encouraged to apply.

Eligibility/Other Requirements

Mandatory:

• Possess and maintain a current driver's licence.
• Be prepared to wear a uniform.

Highly desirable:

• Tertiary qualifications and/or highly relevant experience in engineering, environmental engineering, natural resource management, ecological restoration, hydrology, soil conservation, or other environmental field.
• Ability to use ArcGIS and in-field mapping technology.

Notes: This is a temporary position available immediately to 30 June 2025, with the possibility of extension. An order of merit will be established from this selection process and may be used to fill future identical vacancies over the next 12 months.