Job Summary
Maintain and propagate Australian Native plants for public display and conservation projects. Supervise a team of dedicated and knowledgeable horticulturalists. Help develop the most diverse collection of Australian Flora.
Who we are
Australia's natural and cultural heritage is unique. Our land and seascapes are distinctive, home to plants and animals found nowhere else in the world, and to some of the oldest living cultures on earth. These environments and cultures are an essential part of our national identity, and visitors travel from across the country and the world to experience them. The Director of National Parks (the Director) is responsible for six national parks, the Australian National Botanic Gardens, 58 Australian Marine Parks and the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve established under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. Parks Australia is the federal park agency that supports the Director, and they are a division of the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (the Department). We work to showcase these natural and cultural wonders to the world, demonstrating to all why these places are so special, and inspiring communities to become more invested in their care and future.
Science and Conservation
The Science and Australian National Botanic Gardens Branch lead science and conservation planning and policy for Parks Australia and conducts research in conservation and biodiversity management through a range of programs. We engage in and coordinate diverse research partnerships and ensure First Nations knowledge and innovative solutions are core to our work, enabling us to enhance engagement and embed science into decision‐making at all levels. Our work includes strategic science planning and prioritisation, shaping research partnerships, leading cross‐cutting research in areas such as climate change adaptation, nature positive and knowledge weaving, providing scientific support for Protected Areas policy and Park Management Plans, managing the Australian National Botanic Gardens, facilitating research and science capacity building and education, curating national collections of biological data and conserving and protecting plants through systematics research, seed banking and ex situ conservation, managing data and information systems and producing analytics and insights to support Parks, conducting performance planning and undertaking management effectiveness assessment for Parks Australia.
Our Mission
The Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) is the nation's most diverse collection of Australian native plants. We directly contribute to safeguarding Australia's plant species from extinctions and are responsible for leading, building and sharing knowledge of our Australian flora. The ANBG works closely with biodiversity science programs – the Australian Biological Resources Study, the Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, the National Seed Bank and Biodiversity Informatics – in partnerships for research, for management of physical and digital biological collections, and for management of fundamental national biodiversity data and information accessed nationally and internationally. The ANBG works closely with other Commonwealth parks to support plant conservation initiatives. The ANBG is uniquely placed to provide holistic solutions for national plant conservation, with combined expertise in specialist science facilities for botanical taxonomy, evolution and systematics, seed biology and horticulture.
The Job
The Conservation and Nursery team are dedicated horticulturalists working to investigate the propagation and growing requirements of Australian native plants. We grow plants for showcasing in the ANBG as part of the world's most diverse collection of Australian flora. We also have an increasing focus on team‐oriented conservation projects to translocate species in the wild.
Responsibilities