Park Assets Officer

**Reference Number**:
**S100-25-1195**

**Closing Date**:
**08/06/2025**

**Employment Type**:
**Permanent Part Time**
- **Salary from $50,185.00 to $62,287.00 p.a. + 11.5% super**

**- **Based at Woollahra Council Quarry Street Depot, Paddington**
- **Permanent part time - 23 hours per week**

***About Us**

**Woollahra is an area steeped in natural beauty and heritage appealing to residents, businesses and visitors who enjoy its many parks, waterfront locations and historic buildings. Our people come from a diverse range of backgrounds and professions creating a dynamic workforce of over 400 staff members.

***About the role**

**Based within our Open Space and Trees Department and reporting to the Parks Technical Officer, your main responsibility will be to implement adopted park asset management plans, policies and strategies to Council standards.

***About you**

**You will also be responsible for collating and maintaining all existing information on Council’s parks and reserves recreational infrastructure and all related assets within designated asset databases and GIS systems.

Your third area of responsibility will relate to undertaking condition surveys and manage the lifecycle of Open Space recreational infrastructure and all related assets as required to assist maintenance planning and renewal.

**Your strong attention to detail, top-notch communication skills and exceptional customer service skills will ensure your success in this role.

**Essential Criteria**

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- **Relevant tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated relevant experience in financial, GIS or asset management**:

- **Demonstrated experience in the use and maintenance of asset databases and related GIS systems**:

- **Demonstrated competency in financial components of asset management**:

- **Strong familiarity with Asset Management Plans and their function**:

- **Demonstrated communication skills, both written and oral**:

- **Demonstrated customer service skills**:

- **Demonstrated ability to work independently and to work within a team**:

- **Current Class C driver’s licence**

***Desirable**
- **Experience with recreational infrastructure asset condition inspections and valuations**

***What’s in it for you?**

**We promote equal access to opportunities within the organisation and we pride ourselves on creating a safe and engaging working environment.

**We are dedicated to looking after our staff, because if we look after our people, we will be better placed to look after our community.

**Eligible staff will be entitled to some of the following benefits:
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- **Subsidised gym membership through Fitness Passport with access to 810+ fitness facilities**:

- **Generous personal leave provisions (E.g. Long Service Leave after 5 years’ of continuous service, Parental Leave, Health & Wellbeing Days, Study Leave)**:

- **High quality training and development opportunities**

***How to apply**
**- **You will be asked to demonstrate how you meet each of the selection criteria**:

- **If you have a separate statement addressing the selection criteria, please upload it as a cover letter and simply refer to it in the online questionnaire**:

- **You will be able to upload 2 documents only***:

- **For further information about the role, please contact Nola Urqhuart**_, Assets and Park Maintenance Coordinator _**on**(02) 9391 7978** during business hours**:
***CLOSING DATE: 11:59PM on Sunday 8 June 2025**
**- Woollahra Council is committed to responding to its responsibilities under the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 in undertaking all measures that are reasonably practical to ensure the health and safety of all our workers._
**- Should an applicant indicate that they wish to seek an exemption on medical or other grounds, they will need to provide evidence of their circumstances such as an accepted certified medical contraindication._
**- Woollahra Council is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion._
**- We are committed to reconciliation and strongly encourage all applicants, including, but not limited to, Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people, people with disabilities, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, young people, mature aged workers, LGBTIQ and other minority groups to apply._