Principal & Senior Biodiversity Planner

Osborne Richardson are delighted to bring two fantastic Biodiversity Planning roles to the market in Brisbane. Not only are these roles best in class, but they are also with one of our most trusted and progressive clients, the City of Moreton Bay. Ideally located, growing rapidly and innovating always, these roles will place you into the best position for your career to accelerate rapidly.

In your new role as Principal or Senior Biodiversity Planner, you will provide planning expertise and lead the delivery of highly complex environmental and biodiversity planning projects and services to meet the needs of the organisation and the community within the City of Moreton Bay area. Both roles will run for an initial contract period of 6 months however, we do expect the outcome for both to be long-term contract and conversion to permanent employment ultimately,

During the course of your role, you will undertake a variety of duties, including:

• Acting as a technical expert and providing leadership and direction to team members in the delivery of integrated environmental and biodiversity planning outcomes across the region and within the MBRC organisation.
• Providing expert advice in environmental and biodiversity planning matters in accordance with legislative, policy and business requirements.
• Leading the delivery of highly complex environmental and biodiversity planning projects and specialist project teams (including external consultants) to achieve strategic and business outcomes.
• Taking a leadership role in the development and support of team capability to drive a high performance, continuous improvement and customer focused culture.
• Provision of specialist technical expertise into the development, integration and implementation of key strategies and policy relating to environmental, biodiversity and other significant major planning initiatives.
• Facilitating project-based community consultation including representing Council at a range of customer meetings, community and business forums.
• Current "C" Class Driver's Licence.
• Acting as a key department delegate and advocate on a variety of projects, providing a source of professional advice to key stakeholders.

Anyone know knows Osborne Richardson, knows that we have an amazing reptation with candidates for supporting them for any role they are interested in pursuing. This will be no different. We also have the best reputation in Australia with our clients, who know we will not send them candidates who do not meet their brief or are not the best in the market. It's something we are extremely proud to be known for and are fiercely protective of. With this in mind, we would ask you to carefully review the following key selection criteria against your own skills and experience:

1. Relevant degree qualification to fulfil the position requirements.
2. Substantial knowledge and experience in either biodiversity planning, environmental planning, strategic planning and project management.
3. Substantial experience in the delivery of highly complex environmental and biodiversity planning projects, including leading and mentoring multi-disciplinary project-based teams.
4. Ability to drive high performance outcomes in time critical environments with competing stakeholder interests.
5. Substantial experience in project management and associated risk assessment and management practices.
6. High level experience in applying relevant federal, state and local government legislation and environmental planning principles and practices.
7. High level experience providing expert advice and recommendations on strategy and policy on environmental and biodiversity planning matters.
8. Ability to lead a team of professionals and project teams in response to changes in direction in uncertain or emergent circumstances and in a rapidly changing policy environment.
9. Excellent communication skills with an ability to communicate complex environmental planning concepts and matters in a simple and concise manner (both verbally and in written form) and negotiate safe, practicable and sustainable outcomes.
10. Substantial experience in stakeholder consultation and engagement associated with the delivery of highly complex environmental and biodiversity projects.

If you have any queries on these roles, please feel free to touch base with Owen Millar on or email  

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