Team Leader

**Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board**
**Job reference**: 644260
**Location**: 5253 - MURRAY BRIDGE, 5343 - BERRI
**Job status**: Long Term Contract
**Eligibility**: Open to Everyone

**About the Role**:
Within the Strategy and Engagement portfolio, the Team Leader Planning and MERI plays a pivotal role coordinating and managing the organisation's frameworks and operations that establish strategic direction, track the organisation's progress, and ensure a culture of continual improvement.

The Team Leader Planning and MERI provides overall leadership and direction across the MERI and planning functions, working to identify and implement best-practice approaches to monitor, evaluate, report, and improve the work undertaken by the organisation. This role works closely with team leaders across the organisation to ensure that frameworks fit both internal needs and external funding obligations.

An initial focus of this role will be the review and development of a new 5-year regional strategic plan, for release in 2026. The Team Leader has line management of 3 staff, the Senior Project Officer MERI, Senior Project Officer Planning and Local Government and the Senior Project Officer Geospatial Information Services.

**About the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board culture.**

People are at the heart of everything we do. Whether it's engaging with the region's landholders or creating a supportive environment for our staff, people are always at the forefront.

Reflecting this is an organisational culture that nurtures, empowers and develops staff to create real impact through the work they do. Landscape board employees' skills are developed through ongoing training, education and mentoring opportunities, and leadership programs with the opportunity to grow through promotional opportunities. We offer highly flexible working conditions including the ability to work from home and schedule your work around personal commitments.

**About the organisation.**

The Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board is a statutory body with a focus on enhancing, conserving, and sustaining the landscapes of our impressively diverse region. Spanning vast natural environments and productive agricultural lands, our foremost focus is to collaborate with the region's communities across projects that empower people to be at the heart of landscape management.

Our teams work across projects to conserve native flora and fauna, manage pest plants and animals, and improve the health of the wetlands and floodplains along the River Murray. Our sustainable agriculture team works to drive on-farm productivity, while our engagement team collaborates with First Nations, young people, volunteers, and citizen scientists to build the skills and capacity of our greatest asset - our people.

Frontline staff are supported by a dynamic team of professionals working behind the scenes in roles ranging from finance and governance through to communications, planning, information management, monitoring and evaluation, investment support and more, working as one team to deliver for our region.

The landscape board employs around 85 staff with offices located in Berri and Murray Bridge, with satellite sites in Lameroo, Cambrai, and Karoonda.

Find out more about the role of the landscape board and the work we do at landscape.sa.gov.au/mr

**Special conditions.**
- Position is based at Berri or Murray Bridge.
- A current minimum class C driver's licence is required.
- Will have the opportunity to participate in fire management or associated duties
- Some out of hours work and intrastate travel involving overnight absences from home may be required.
- Required to participate in the Murraylands and Riverland Landscape Board's Performance Development and Review Program.

**What can we offer you**
- Working in an organisation that is contributing to significant environmental outcomes in the great state of South Australia
- Be part of a fun, collaborative and supportive team.
- Hybrid working model with flexible working options including work from home available to promote work life balance.
- Salary Sacrifice Benefits.
- Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
- Meaningful and rewarding career.

**Qualifications / Education**
- Tertiary qualifications in natural resource management or other qualifications relevant to strategic planning (desirable).
- A current First Aid Certificate is desirable.

**Expectations and values**
- Maintain a commitment to professional conduct in line with the Code of Ethics for the South Australian Public Sector.
- Maintain a commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO), cultural safety and diversity in the workplace.
- Acknowledge and respect the cultural authority of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in line with the Landscape SA Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statement of Commitment.

**Contract**:
Contract for up to 3 years

**Remuneration**:
CLASSIFICATION $108,109 min - $116,864 max p.a.