Sustainability Officer

Sustainability Officer - The Barossa Council

Position Description

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**Classification**:Level 6
**Department**:Development and Community Services
**Current Occupant**:Newly Created Position
**This Position Reports To**:Director Development and Community Services
**Reporting To This Position**:NIL
**Location**:Nuriootpa Main Administration Building
**Date Last Reviewed**:June 2023
**Approved by**:Director Development and Community Services

**Corporate Objectives**

All Employees of Council contribute to Council’s strategic goals and objectives. The _Barossa Community Plan_
2020 - 2040 lays the foundation for all strategic decisions made by Council and is supported by a _Corporate _
- Plan_. The Community Plan provides a clear strategic direction across a range of areas, as well as serving as
an overarching guide to measure our decision making and successful delivery of service. The Community
Plan shows commitment to the values of **_Land and Place_**, **_Community,_** **_Leadership_** and **_Achievement_** with
targets that reflect six key themes:
Natural Environment and Built
Environment

Health and Wellbeing

Community and Culture

Business and Employment

Infrastructure

How we Work, Good Governance

**Customer Service**

Council values its customers and strives to provide the right people, efficient processes and systems to deliver a
quality customer experience. Every role within Council serves an internal or external customer and we are
committed to ensuring that customers are at the centre of everything we do.

**Constructive Culture**
The Barossa Council is committed to developing a constructive culture that supports employees, Council and
the Community to achieve our goals. The behaviours of a constructive organisational culture consist of four
main constructive styles**:
**1 Achievement **Pursue a standard of excellence, set challenging but realistic goals and work

towards them with enthusiasm.
**2 Self-Actualising
**Maintain personal integrity, enjoy work, self-develop and take an interest in growth
and improvement activities.

**3 Humanistic-**
**Encouraging**

Be supportive of others in and outside the workplace and constructive in their
dealings with one another.

**4 Affiliative
Be friendly, sensitive, and cooperate with others.

**Staff Values**
Our values support our organisational culture and include **_Honesty and Integrity, Transparency, _**

**_Communication and Teamwork._**

**Position Overview**
The role of the Sustainability Officer is to lead and deliver the development and implementation of a range of
environmental, waste management and sustainability strategies, programs, initiatives, services and advice that
respond to current and emerging needs, are compliant with organisational and legislative requirements and
aligned to community expectations. This position influences heightened support, awareness and commitment
to environmental performance improvement and behavioural change across the organisation and broader
community and organise education regarding the general principles and issues of sustainability.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Sustainability**:

- Develop, implement and manage council's sustainability projects and programs.- Provide support to Council-wide working groups to facilitate the implementation of environment policies and
- plans.- Prepare and implement a Carbon Management Plan to assist Council in understanding its current corporate

carbon emissions footprint and how, over time, this can be meaningfully reduced in a financially responsible
manner.
- Develop and review environmental and waste management policies and strategies in line with our legislative

requirements and best practice.
- Provide technical and strategic advice by partnering with other departments to ensure projects and services

deliver on sustainability agenda by addressing water consumption, energy use, climate change impacts and
adaptation measures.
- Research and gather data, identifying regional and local trends.***
- Prepare and present reports to Management and Council in relation to the operation of Council’s
- sustainability strategy, performance and related projects.- Build strong and effective partnerships with key stakeholders necessary to deliver sustainability initiatives.***
- Organise educational programs on sustainability initiatives/awareness for internal customers and external

community groups.**
**Waste Management**:

- In** **line with Council objectives, lead the development, delivery and review of Council’s waste and resource

recovery programs.****:

- Negotiate and supervise Council’s waste services contracts including provision of directions to contractors on

Council’s behalf, monitoring of contractor performance, general administration and enforcement duties
where needed and /or as directed.***
- Provide** **oversight of Council’s waste service contracts and provide oversight and an advisory service for the

day-to-day monitoring of contractor perfor