Qualified Horticulturist

**Permanent, Full-time opportunity****:

- **Band 3 salary range $66,981 to $71,105 inclusive of applicable allowances + super****:

- **Work with a dedicated team maintaining beautiful spaces***

**The Role**

We are looking for our newest team member to join us at Ballarat Botanical Gardens in an exciting specialist Nursery position.

The engine room of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens, our Nursery produces & maintains more than 12,000 plants a year for our year-round conservatory displays, featuring six documented collections and Ballarat’s renown registered begonia collections.

Working with a passionate team, you would help propagate, grow and maintain nursey collections and complimentary plants, and then bring them to life in our year-round, much visited conservatory displays.

If you wish to showcase your design skills, our team also creates three unique Conservatory Floral Displays every year, including the Begonia Display, the centrepiece of Ballarat’s Begonia Festival.

We are passionate about integrated pest management, nursery accreditation, work in a mínimal chemical-use environment, and are actively involved in small scale indigenous plant conservation projects, and thrive on propagation of plants for our heritage listed gardens.

**About You**

If you have a passion for plants, an eye for detail, extensive nursery experience, and believe there can be no where better to work than a botanical gardens, then we would love to hear from you

**To Apply**

Please ensure that you provide a **cover letter,** a **current resume** and **answer the screening questions based on the key selection criteria**.

The successful applicant will be required to undergo a full employment medical and police check.

**Contact**

**Job Ref**:

- SH000150

**Submitted**:

- 29-10-2024

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