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Title:

Senior Drought Hub Extension Officer

Advertiser:

Healthy Land & Water

Location:

Brisbane, QLD

The opportunity

As a Senior Drought Extension Officer you will have an important role in extending our knowledge brokering and practice change services to rural areas and communities in South East Queensland ensuring a strong focus on farmers as the customer and the uptake of Future Drought Fund tools and drought resilience innovations at a localised, on-farm, and community level. This is a full-time role offered as a 24-month contract initially.

Your responsibilities will include…

  • Driving uptake of new innovations on-farm/at local level for improved drought resilience, including guiding farmers to relevant knowledge, helping translate that knowledge into on-farm adoption and by explaining the benefits of innovation
  • Supporting farmers to use the tools developed through the Future Drought Fund (e.g: using DRSAT, undertaking Farm Business Resilience training).
  • Establishing and maintaining strong working relationships and partnerships with key external stakeholders and end-users, covering all regions of the Hub through local engagement
  • Leading, facilitating, and delivering industry-focused workshops and other activities, resulting in:
    1. Improved drought decision-making for pasture and livestock management capabilities tailored for each Region/Node; and cropping, horticulture and viticulture systems
    2. Improved capacity of agricultural businesses to be resilient, sustainable, productive and profitable by using financial risk management tools

About You

Ideally, you will share our vision to lead the change that will deliver an environment for future generations to thrive. You will be highly motivated and can work autonomously in agreed timeframes. To be successful in this role, you will have all or many of the following requirements:

  • An agricultural of Environment Degree in a relevant discipline and applied practical experience and technical expertise
  • Experience in agricultural extension and landholder engagement
  • High level stakeholder engagement skills, across landholders, government, research, First Nations and the community
  • A current manual QLD driving licence

What We Offer

We’re a diverse team of experts, who enjoy sharing knowledge and learning. We recognize and celebrate our employees and teams for affecting real and innovative change in our communities. We value integrity, collaboration, care, innovation, and courage. Some of our benefits include:

  • Flexible working arrangements
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to support your mental, nutritional, and financial wellbeing
  • Novated leasing
  • Annual professional development allowance
  • Annual private health insurance reimbursement
  • Annual wellbeing reimbursement
  • Salary continuance insurance
  • Paid Birthday leave
  • Annual All Staff Retreat

Healthy Land & Water is committed to our Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), and we strongly encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to apply. Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander applicants will be highly regarded per affirmative measures under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975.

nrmjobs.com.au/job/20024743

Date published:

04-Feb-2025

Closing date:

18-Feb-2025