Closes: 12 June 2025
Classification: Administrative Services Officer Class 6
Salary: $99,654 - $113,315 plus superannuation
Position No: 54937
Directorate: Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development
Advertised (Gazettal date): 29 May 2025
Contact Officer: Peter Kreider on Peter.Kreider@act.gov.au or 0447 334 046
Details: The Office of Nature Conservation (ONC) brings together policy, science, and data expertise to accelerate unified thinking and action to respond to the immense conservation challenges facing the ACT. The ONC focuses on an outcomes-based philosophy to guide and inform on-ground conservation efforts undertaken by ACT Parks and Conservation Services, volunteer environmental partners and the community.
The advertised position sits within the Maps and Data team within ONC, which is a small specialist technical unit that provides GIS and data management support, and strategic data and digital advice to ONC and the Environment, Heritage and Parks Division. We play an important role in data governance and curation for both spatial and non-spatial biodiversity data. The focus of the role is to improve data findability, accessibility, and standardisation to make biodiversity data easy to use and valued, as well as to create systems and tools that will work side-by-side with existing environment information systems.
Contact Officer: Peter Kreider, Peter.Kreider@act.gov.au
Eligibility
Eligibility/Other Requirements:
* To be eligible for temporary employment with the ACT Government, you must be in Australia on a visa with working rights or be an Australian citizen or permanent resident.
* Comfortable working long hours with computers and be able to attend the office in person two days a week.
Highly Desirable
* Qualifications in spatial science, GIS, data science, ecology/environmental science or other related/cognate discipline.
* 2 years+ relevant work experience applying data management skills in an environmental or science context.
Note: This is a temporary position available immediately for a period of 12 months with the possibility of permanency. A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.
Please note, this position will be moving to a new workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk.
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.
How to Apply: Please submit
* a written application (maximum two pages) addressing the Selection Criteria
* a current curriculum vitae
* contact information for at least two professional references
Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button below.
Important Information for Applicants
Effective from 1 July 2025, as part of the ACTPS 2025 Change Implementation Program, the Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development Directorate (EPSDD), Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS), Access Canberra, and the Better Regulation Taskforce will amalgamate to form the new City and Environment Directorate. Further information about the Changes Implementation Program is available in the ACTPS 2025 Taskforce Report - Open Government Information.
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