Senior Heritage Compliance Adviser

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Based within the Environment, Heritage and Resilience Department, the City Heritage team is a small and agile team known for its commitment to flexible work practices whilst delivering impactful heritage protection, conservation and compliance outcomes. Our team's services focus on the identification and protection of historic and Aboriginal cultural heritage within the local government area, conserving and celebrating the City's significant heritage places, and ensuring the City's land use activities do not harm cultural heritage. We work collaboratively with a range of internal teams and external stakeholders (including community, Aboriginal parties, and other levels of government) for optimal heritage outcomes.

We currently have a permanent full-time opportunity to join our Heritage team. This role offers the chance to work flexibly (home/office hybrid) while contributing to projects that help guide the City's heritage compliance services.

• Lead the program of heritage risk assessments for the City's capital and operational land use activities
• Manage heritage service requests and stakeholder engagement activities
• Provide strategic input into heritage risk management and cultural heritage protection strategies
• Review technical reports and provide heritage advice to project teams
• Contribute to the development of heritage risk management process, systems and templates and maintain records

Be autonomous while collaborating across teams, value flexibility, and drive heritage risk management practices.

• Has extensive experience in historic and Aboriginal cultural heritage management in infrastructure planning and delivery.
• Has extensive experience in cultural heritage management in capital and operational projects.
• Has experience operating within teams, mentoring and guiding others and creating a positive workplace environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate with and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Holds a high level of interpersonal, oral and written skills including demonstrated experience presenting technical matters to stakeholders.
• Demonstrates high attention to detail, analytical ability, and capability to interpret heritage legislation as it relates to land use activities.
• Hold a Bachelor Degree in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Anthropology, or related field.

• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle, including hybrid/work from home options, flexible working hours and locations
• Personal and professional development courses
• Access to 350+ fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• 4 free confidential counselling sessions a year for you or an immediate family member
• 1 free nutritionist and financial advice session per year

Click 'Apply' to submit your online application. Upload your Resume with a Cover Letter (of no more than 2 pages) outlining how your skills, experience and personal attributes would allow you to achieve success in this role. Documents need to be less than 2MB in size and PDF format is preferred. If you encounter technical issues when applying, please email

Our selection process may include a one-way video interview via Criteria, a face-to-face or virtual interview via Microsoft Teams, reference checks via Xref and additional checks including police checks, employment history checks, qualification checks, pre-employment medical reviews and drug and alcohol testing.

Please note applications for all of our vacancies close at 10.30pm on the listed closing date. The City of Gold Coast is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons are encouraged to apply.

Andrew Allan
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Closing Date: Sunday 21 September 2025