Are You Driven By Park And Pest Management Planning?

Join A Skilled Team That Looks After The Toowoomba Region

About Parks & Recreation

The Parks & Recreation Team are the secret behind the Toowoomba Region's beautiful parks and gardens. With over 7000 hectares of public gardens, bushland park, sports and recreation facilities and other open space and an extensive urban forest, the Toowoomba region is well known for its liveability and green infrastructure. The Parks and Recreation Services Branch is responsible for planning, developing and maintaining our beautiful green infrastructure, some of which is heritage listed, and keeping up with the strong growth across the region. The team is a diverse mix of approximately 200 people working as labourers, gardeners, arborists, horticulturalists, plant operators, rangers, cleaners, project managers, landscape architects, administrators, regulators and their managers and leaders.

About the position

The Park and Pest Management Planning Officer will be primarily responsible for compiling information about Toowoomba Regions Bushland Park Estate including the Dam estate and developing park management plans, pest and fire management action plans, visitor management plans and assisting with prioritising and implementing programs for both individual bushland parks under Council control and the bushland park estate as a whole.

This position will work under general direction of the Coordinator Conservation and Pest Management Services and will be required to work closely with operational and other technical staff with Conservation and Pest Management.

This position will work under general supervision.

• The salary range for this position is $77,223.52 - $82,594.58 gross per annum, plus 17.5% annual leave loading and up to 12.65% superannuation.
• This is a Permanent Full time position based at our Principal Depot in Charlton.
• Work in a safety-conscious organisation - home safe every day!
• Active social club - TRC Employee's Association.
• Access to the Fitness Passport Program - providing access to a wide range of local health, fitness, and leisure facilities with a single membership.
• Employee Assistance Program - free 24 hour nationwide confidential counselling services for employees and their families going through personal or work-related problems.

How to be successful in this position - Success Criteria:

1. Hold the mandatory qualification(s), training and/or experience, as outlined under the 'Success Criteria' in the Position Description.
2. Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
3. Demonstrated ability to develop documents to a publishable standard.
4. Demonstrated networking and community engagement skills and experience.
5. Demonstrated ability to produce quality strategic and operational plans for park and pest management with limited supervision.
6. Demonstrated ability to work to deadlines and to deliver on schedule.
7. Possess an excellent understanding of park management, fire, visitor and pest management and have demonstrated relevant experience of either planning or on ground activities.
8. Working knowledge of/or the ability to gain an understanding of public sector management in the context of local government.
9. Understanding of and commitment to Council's Organisational Value and Behaviour of Teamwork.

About Council

The Toowoomba Region is about rich traditions and bold ambitions. Our long and proud agricultural history has evolved Toowoomba into Australia's second largest inland city supporting diverse townships in the Council area and acting as a service centre for South West Qld and North West NSW. The region is boldly forging new opportunities around the Surat Basin resource sector, education, health, transport and massive infrastructure investments. Growth hasn't come at the expense of liveability though, with Toowoomba twice voted in the top 5 most family friendly cities in Australia.

Toowoomba Regional Council services a regional population of 166,500 and employs a team of approximately 1,800 staff, dedicated and passionate about delivering excellent customer service to the community, residents and visitors throughout the region. We recognise that our success depends upon attracting and retaining skilled and talented staff and offer a wide variety of interesting challenges and opportunities to develop your career.