Reef Catchments - Resilient ecosystems, engaged community Our work and our people make a difference

Reef Catchments is the natural resource management (NRM) organisation for the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region. We facilitate change and work for long-term solutions to sustain, manage, and improve our region's natural resources and environment, both now and into the future.

We build a strong culture- Our people are our strength

Our team is comprised of skilled and outcome-focused people who are all dedicated to looking after the environment in the Mackay Whitsunday Isaac region. We value diversity, recognising its importance in creating our vision for resilient ecosystems and an engaged community. Our success hinges on building a team drawn from diverse backgrounds and life experiences. We are intentional and contemplative in shaping our team's culture, understanding that the perspectives and skills of our team members are vital. We embrace the notion that inclusion is a collective responsibility, central to our vision, purpose and values.

You'll thrive

This role provides a rewarding professional career path and considerable work/life balance and benefits. We offer a flexible and positive work environment, with an opportunity to enhance and build your skills and experience.

The Position

We are seeking engaging and motivated grazing project officers to work with landholders and land managers to improve the productivity and profitability of our regional grazing industry.

Reporting to the Manager of Sustainable Agriculture, you will support landholders with property planning designed to improve land conditions and water quality outcomes. Your role includes providing extension services to agriculture landholders and technical support to Reef Catchments programs. In particular, this includes landholder engagement and communication support for Sustainable Agriculture programs.

The role allows you to use your technical and management skills to support demonstration trials, develop and maintain effective relationships with stakeholders and landholders to aid the development of sustainable agriculture projects, support the data collection and analysis of management practice adoption to evaluate the program's effectiveness and enable program modifications relating to extension and funding.

We offer a flexible and positive work environment with an opportunity to enhance and build your skills and experience.

About you

• Qualifications in a relevant field such as Agriculture, Applied Science or Natural Resource Management or equivalent relevant work experience and vocational or industry education/training.
• Demonstrated ability to manage project planning, delivery, monitoring, evaluation and reporting, including coordination and monitoring activities of diverse project teams.
• Understanding or experience of best practice grazing land management.
• Demonstrated skills in data collection and management systems to produce data products to meet reporting and planning needs.
• Advanced interpersonal, facilitation and communication skills as they relate to building strong relationships, partnerships and networks with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
• High-level organisational skills, including the ability to organise and prioritise work activities in a demanding, busy environment, including demonstrated attention to detail.
• Event organisation experience (meetings, workshops, field days).
• Current Driver's Licence.

Desirable

• Understanding of soil sampling hygiene and undertaking land condition assessments or similar monitoring and evaluation frameworks.
• Managing demonstration trials.

Benefits of working with us

1. Flexible working arrangements for work-life balance.
2. Professional development opportunities.
3. Career progression and succession planning.
4. 5 weeks annual leave.
5. Salary packaging.
6. Team building activities.