Habitat Management Coordinator

**_Together we shape thriving communities, public spaces, places and economies._**
- **Temporary full-time opportunity until June 2025**:

- **Office location based in Sydney Olympic Park**:

- **Clerk Grade 7/8 Salary relative to experience and ranges from $110,226 - $122,058 + super**

**What’s in it for me?**

Join our team for a **fantastic culture** with dynamic collaboration and **genuine long-term career support**. We offer **flexibility in work arrangements**, diverse and fulfilling assignments, and prioritize **work/life balance**and wellbeing with initiatives like flex leave and access to support programs. Additionally, we are committed to **fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace** where everyone feels welcome, respected, and empowered to succeed.

**Sydney Olympic Park Authority(SOPA)** is seeking a dedicated **Habitat Management Coordinator** to manage natural area maintenance contracts and provide technical expertise in natural areas management. This role is crucial in ensuring the proper function, performance, and safety of natural assets while promoting flora and fauna conservation within one of Australia’s largest and most diverse urban parklands. You will manage bush regeneration contracts for threatened species habitats and endangered ecological communities, develop specifications for new projects and contracts, and work within an adaptive management framework to achieve biodiversity and weed management outcomes.

**About the role**:

- Manage and coordinate term maintenance service contracts, ensuring compliance with SOPA contract terms and conditions.
- Administer and manage natural areas maintenance services within allocated annual budget limits.
- Provide technical advice on weed and habitat management.
- Lead and develop specifications and documentation for maintenance services and habitat enhancement works.
- Prepare and deliver maintenance and asset service reports, contract management, quality audits, and performance reports to management on a quarterly basis.
- Consult and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to minimize the impact of service delivery on development within the precinct, commercial businesses, events, programs, and activities, ensuring the safe use and enjoyment of the precinct by visitors, workers, and residents.

For more information read the full Role Description: Habitat Maintenance Coordinator

**What you will bring to the role**
- Experience in managing procurement and contracts, ensuring compliance with service agreements.
- Strong communication skills to manage service provider and stakeholder relationships effectively
- Autonomy in decision-making and accountability for delivering work assignments on time and to quality expectations.

Essential requirements
- Relevant qualifications in conservation and land management, landscape management, and/or equivalent experience
- Sound experience in contract management

**About us**

The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure (DPHI) improves the liveability and prosperity of NSW. To achieve this, we: create vibrant, productive spaces and precincts; manage lands, assets and property effectively and deliver affordable and diverse housing. We strive to be a high-performing, world-class public service organisation that celebrates and reflects the full diversity of the community we serve and builds the cultural capability of our department to improve outcomes with and for Aboriginal people, communities and entities.

We are an inclusive and accessible workplace, where your individual contributions are valued, and where everyone is encouraged to feel a sense of connection and belonging. DPHI supports various employee affinity groups, practices flexible working, offers job share and workplace adjustments.

**Join us**

Applications close **Sunday, 19 January 2025 at 11:55PM**
- A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary opportunities of the same role or role type that may become available over the next 18 months._