Job Title: Operations Officer
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Job Description:
The role of an Operations Officer is to engage with staff across all programs to facilitate effective and meaningful engagement with the Board of Directors of the Aboriginal Corporations (native title Prescribed Body Corporate (PBC)) engaged in Plan for Our Parks (PfOPs) negotiations in the Pilbara Region.
Key responsibilities include facilitating on country trips, workshops, and joint activities to support the development and implementation of Joint Management Agreements (JMA)s with traditional owners. This involves communicating to key stakeholders through coordinating working groups, establishing committees and responding to information requests so that the proposed joint management of the PfOP reserves and associated works projects are successful and achieved in a timely manner.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
* Experience in natural resource management, including land management and planning, with a preference for experience in cultural heritage management, management of conservation reserves, conservation, and recreational site management.
* Evidence of well-developed interpersonal and oral communication skills with experience in effective liaison with external organisations, including other government agencies, community, and special interest groups. Ability and willingness to work with traditional owners to deliver native title aspirations through joint management, cooperation, or collaborative arrangements.
* Experience, knowledge, and skills in leading and managing teams, working effectively as part of a team and independently, showing a high level of self-motivation.
* Experience in project development, control, and expenditure of allocated work projects and experience in infrastructure development and maintenance.
Benefits:
* Flexible working arrangements.
* 11.5% superannuation, full employer contribution and salary packaging options.
* Annual leave to be adjusted based on the position, e.g. 4 weeks annual leave with 17.5% loading paid as additional pay every December.
* 5 days North West Leave per year.
* 3 days additional public sector holidays each year.
* Cultural leave for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander staff.
* Access to study, bereavement, foster caring and parental leave.
* A confidential employee assistant program (EAP) for you and your family, including psychology and counselling services.
* An annual National Park Entry Pass.
* Well-established learning and development programs.
Others:
Eligibility: To be eligible for permanent appointment, it is essential to have Australian citizenship, New Zealand citizenship or Australian permanent residency status.
Substantive Equality Statement: DBCA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages Indigenous Australians, young people, people with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and women to apply for positions within our agency.