Lead Regional Extension Officer

5 months ago


Warragul, Australia Dairy Australia Full time

**About Dairy Australia**:
Dairy Australia’s role is to provide services that benefit and advance dairy farm businesses and the industry. These services deliver value by enhancing farm business management, supporting farm employment needs, driving herd and feed innovation, managing climate and environment, promoting Australian dairy and commitment to sustainability, supporting policy development, growing international markets and responding to critical issues and events such as floods and bushfires.

**Our Vision and Values**:
At Dairy Australia, our vision is simple, _to be leaders in shaping a profitable and sustainable dairy industry_. Our passionate and talented people share this vision and make an impact each day through their commitment to our values of:

- Farmer First - Farmer needs guide our purpose
- One Team - We work together to achieve great things
- Innovative Thinking - We embrace new ideas and learning as we go
- Decisive Action - We make informed decisions and move quickly to implement

**About the role**:
As the **Lead Regional Extension Officer** in our GippsDairy team you will provide effective leadership including coordination and support for the regional extension team of 5 as they deliver innovative, well planned and collaborative regional extension and education activities. This role reports directly into the Regional Manager, and there are also opportunities to link into our broader Regional Services team for support.

This role has a strong focus on working closely with regional networks, including dairy advisers and service providers, to ensure that dairy farmers and service providers gain knowledge and confidence from information derived from relevant, regional, state and national dairy Research, Development & Extension programs.

**Here are some of the ways you will make an impact**:

- Provide leadership and line management to Regional Extension Officers.
- Inform and promote regional and national priorities, policies and delivery of extension services on key technical themes.
- Ensure program delivery is aligned to priorities and industry targets and includes initiating the development and implementation of timely and relevant extension and support activities.
- Coordinate and implement plans and activities to ensure regional extension and education delivery is collaborative, effective, robustly evaluated and effective.
- Communicate timely and relevant information that ensures extension and education activities function well and are supported by strong and effective professional networks.

You are outcome driven and understand farming systems, farm production and the dairy industry. You can demonstrate experience in working with farmers in extension delivery and facilitation. We want to hear about your experience in initiating and developing partnerships with key stakeholders and driving projects from development to implantation and review.

Just as important is your initiative and enthusiasm for:

- Building Relationships: you thrive on interacting with multiple stakeholders, establish rapport easily and impress people with your ability to tailor your communication to their needs
- Communicating Information: you convince people, challenge ideas and appropriately articulate information to your audience with strong attention to detail.
- Showing Resilience: you convey self-confidence, demonstrate composure and resolve conflicts as they arise
- Giving Support: you understand people and value individuals, you work well as part of a team
- Evaluating Problems: you examine information thoroughly, document facts and can interpret data
- Providing Leadership: you make timely informed decisions and empower others

**About your work life with us**

We aim to provide benefits that promote the overall wellbeing of our employees. In joining our team, you will be rewarded with:

- Flexible working environment - work from our Warragul office and your home office, on the road visiting stakeholders, as well as connecting with your colleagues and stakeholders virtually
- Being a key member in our supportive and high performing team of experts in their field
- A caring and innovative culture -we are open to each other’s ideas, we love to innovative, we have integrity and are driven to find the best solutions for our employees and stakeholders
- Fully maintained vehicle


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