Regional Team Leader

**_Do you want your work to make a difference for NSW?_**
- Together, we create thriving environments, communities and economies._
- **Ongoing full-time opportunity**:

- **Office location - Parramatta (or other BCT office in the Sydney-Hunter Region by negotiation)**:

- **Salary from $130,506 to $143,921 + Super**

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is currently seeking to appoint a **Regional Team Leader** to join the Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT).

The Regional Team Leader manages a small team responsible for delivering BCT programs within a BCT region. The role encompasses staff leadership, project management, landholder support, customer service, stakeholder engagement, partnerships, education, communications, conservation assessment, compliance, monitoring, evaluation and reporting.

**About the role**

The BCT manages Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements under the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme by making annual biodiversity stewardship payments to private landholders carrying out conservation management actions on their sites. The BCT ensures compliance of agreements through review of annual reports and site inspections and provides ongoing landholder support.

A focus of the role is co-ordinating the delivery of Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements in the Sydney-Hunter Region, and leadership in Biodiversity Stewardship Agreements across the BCT. The role ensures the team’s work (e.g. annual reports, correspondence, landholder payment forms, etc.) is of high quality and consistent with internal processes. The Regional Team Leader also authorises financial payments to landholders and attends non-compliant agreement sites with team members to support landholders in fulfilling their agreement obligations.

The role is also involved in the delivery of other BCT programs not related to the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme. More information on these programs is available on the BCT website.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- Experience in managing multidisciplinary teams in natural resource management or biodiversity conservation.
- Relevant tertiary qualification and/or extensive experience in natural resource management or biodiversity conservation.
- A current driver’s licence and willingness to travel.

For more information read the full Role Description**:Regional Team Leader**

**Who we are**

The New South Wales Biodiversity Conservation Trust (BCT) is a not-for-profit statutory body, established under Part 10 of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 and managed by a Board appointed by the Minister for the Environment.

The Trust’s roles are to support and encourage landholders to enter into agreements to conserve and protect biodiversity on private land, guided by the government’s Biodiversity Conservation Investment Strategy; secure biodiversity offsets when developers choose to pay into the Biodiversity Conservation Fund; and other activities that promote greater awareness of, appreciation and understanding of, biodiversity and the importance of conserving it.

We acknowledge the ongoing custodial responsibilities of the Aboriginal peoples of NSW to care for Country and are committed to establishing meaningful partnerships with Aboriginal peoples in the management of the environment.

**Participation in the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme (BOS) and the BCT’s private land conservation (PLC) programs**

The successful applicant for this role will be required to declare any conflict of interests related to the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme, as defined in the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme Conflict of Interests Protocol. This ensures the department is made aware of potential conflicts of interest so they can be appropriately managed.

Where an applicant has a high-risk “defined interest” in the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme, they may be required to divest this interest before being employed by the department.

**If you think you might have a conflict of interest related to the scheme, or you are unsure, please discuss this with the hiring manager.**

The department is committed to protecting the public interest and public trust in the exercise of its functions. These values, together with transparency and accountability, are integral to the administration of the Biodiversity Offsets Scheme.

You can view the department’s Code of Ethics and Conduct, along with the NSW Biodiversity Offsets Scheme Conflict of Interests Protocol, on the department’s Policies webpage. For more information, please contact the hiring manager.

The BCT also has restrictions on staff participation in its funded PLC programs. No additional funding, beyond that already agreed to by the BCT, may be sought or approved during time as a BCT employee or for a 12-month period following termination of employment.

**To Apply**

**Applications close 23 February 2024 at 11:55PM.**
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