Closes: 09 July 2025
Classification: Professional Officer Class 2
Salary: $100,650 - $114,448 plus superannuation
Position No: 39931
Directorate: Environment, Planning and Sustainable Development
Advertised (Gazettal date): 18 June 2025
Contact Officer: Cameron Gallagher on or (02) 6207 7978
Details : The Environmental Offsets – Planning, Monitoring and Research team is looking for an enthusiastic and professional ecologist to deliver the ACT Government’s Environmental Offsets Monitoring Program. This is an exciting opportunity to undertake project management and stakeholder engagement through ecological monitoring. The role will allow you to contribute your skills to inform restoration and land management activities to improve outcomes for some of Canberra’s most threatened flora and fauna.
Mandatory
Eligibility/Other Requirements:
* Prior to commencing this role, a current registration issued under the Working with Vulnerable People (Background Checking) Act 2011 is required. For further information on Working with Vulnerable People registration refer to - Apply for or renew a WWVP registration - Access Canberra
* A current manual driver’s license
Desirable
* Tertiary qualifications in a field of Environmental Management or Biological Science, or equivalent.
* Willingness to undertake incident management duties, including participation in fire standby, fire suppression and fire training.
Note: This is a temporary position available immediately until 31 December 2025 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency. Selection may be based on application and referee reports only.
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where people with diverse thoughts, lived experience, and perspectives can thrive and contribute their unique talents to the ACTPS and ACT community. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with disability, people with culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, younger and older workers, and people with diverse genders, sexes and sexualities to apply.
A Merit Pool will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.
How to Apply: Please submit a written application of no more than two pages, addressing the Selection Criteria, along with your current curriculum vitae, listing two referees and their contact details.
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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This is a temporary position available immediately until 31 December 2025 with the possibility of extension up to 12 months and/or permanency. #J-18808-Ljbffr