Horticulture Coordinator

2 months ago

Melbourne, Australia Melbourne & Olympic Parks Full time

**ABOUT THE ROLE**

We are excited to welcome a passionate and collaborative Horticulture Coordinator.

As the Horticulture Coordinator you will play a crucial role in driving the delivery of Horticulture services, ensuring that M&OP has the world-class grounds and facilities it needs to deliver events and activate our Precinct. With a focus on our annual Horticulture program, team leadership, and collaboration you will work with key stakeholders to deliver outstanding outcomes that have a lasting impact. Some key focus areas include:

- Summer & winter annual garden displays, for the overall presentation of the precinct year-round.
- Reconstruction/re-planting of multiple green spaces around the precinct.
- Enhancing nutrition/weed prevention programs of the site.

The Melbourne & Olympic Parks precinct is home to six of Melbourne’s premier venues; Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena, John Cain Arena, AAMI Park, Kia Arena and CENTREPIECE at Melbourne Park, an array of other professional sporting and administrative facilities, as well as recreational spaces, including the National Tennis Centre, two show courts, 35 outdoor tennis courts, six indoor tennis courts, Tennis HQ, Olympic Park Oval, Gosch’s Paddock and the AIA Centre (Collingwood Football and Netball Club) - all of which form the scope of the Horticulture & Sports Ground team’s remit. You will work hand in hand with tenant, venue and infrastructure teams to manage and enhance the sports facilities and surrounding greenspaces.

Here are some of the things you’ll have the opportunity to be involved in:
Horticulture
- Lead the Horticulture program across the precinct by delivering site presentation to the highest standard.
- This will be including but not exclusive to the introduction of annual and year round colour, lawn aesthetics and weed management plans.

Operational Planning
- Prepare and plan the annual site maintenance programs.
- Participate in Australian Open planning to ensure site readiness and presentation standards has a continuous improvement focus.
- Management of service providers to ensure best practices are maintained with a constant focus on improvements and adjusting to industry trends.

Best Practice Leadership
- Drive operational excellence, identifying opportunities for improvement for M&OP to be leaders in what we do.
- Ensuring that safety is at the forefront.
- Provide direction and support to direct reports to ensure outcomes are in line with business plans and are executed to a high standard.
- Support and contribute to department budgetary process including planning and forecasting for the Financial Year ahead.
- Engage leaders and staff from across the organisation in continuous improvement, building a culture of a shared endeavour to a common goal.

Strategic Planning
- Support in developing a long-term strategy as it relates to Horticulture at M&OP.
- Contribute to the broad M&OP strategic planning in the Horticulture area of expertise to ensure the business delivers on its purpose and commitments.
- Review and provide recommendations for workforce planning to ensure future capability and resources.

**WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ROLE**

A passion for the finer details

With a keen eye for detail, you bring creative and innovative thinking when setting a high performance and delivery standards. You love nothing more than seeing how each small detail adds up to make a huge impact on site presentation.

You can balance competing demands like a pro

You’re detail orientated and equally appreciate the importance of keeping your eye on the bigger picture. A fast pace, ‘lots of balls in the air’ kind of environment is one you thrive in - it’s your quick thinking, tenacious and innate solutions orientation spirit that keeps you on track.

You can be an influential, impactful leader

You want to be a team player by collaborating with the wider team to produce the best results for the precinct. You have an ability to shift focus on short notice in this fast paced ever changing environment. You are keen to set high standards in all aspects of Horticulture and sports turf practices.

The customer is at the heart of everything you do

You care deeply about the customer experience. Whether it is a client on the implementation of a game-changing venue upgrade, longer term visioning of a master plan design or a guest coming to see their favourite artist at one of our venues - you consider their experience at every aspect of your role.

**A BIT ABOUT US**

Melbourne & Olympic Park (M&OP) is an iconic, multi-venue precinct with few parallels globally. We showcase Melbourne to the world during the Australian Open and deliver hundreds of entertainment, sporting and community events each year across our world class venues.

At M&OP we are passionate about delivering world class customer experiences to every person, every event, every time. How do we do this? By seeking out the best talent to build a high performance, int

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