Senior Cultural Heritage Officer

Based within the Environment, Heritage and Resilience Department, the City Heritage team is a small and agile team known for its commitment to flexible work practices whilst delivering impactful heritage protection, conservation and compliance outcomes.

Our team's services focus on the identification and protection of historic and Aboriginal cultural heritage within the local government area, conserving and celebrating the City's significant heritage places, and ensuring the City's land use activities do not harm cultural heritage. We work collaboratively with a range of internal teams and external stakeholders (including community, Aboriginal parties, and other levels of government) for optimal heritage outcomes.

This role offers the chance to work flexibly (home/office hybrid) while contributing to projects that help guide the City's heritage compliance services.

As a highly experienced heritage professional, you will:

• Lead the program of heritage risk assessments for the City's capital and operational land use activities
• Manage heritage service requests and stakeholder engagement activities
• Provide strategic input into heritage risk management and cultural heritage protection strategies
• Review technical reports and provide heritage advice to project teams
• Contribute to the development of heritage risk management process, systems and templates and maintain records

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys working autonomously while collaborating across teams, values flexibility, and is driven to make a difference through sound heritage risk management practices.

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We're looking for people who have:

• Has extensive experience in historic and Aboriginal cultural heritage management in infrastructure planning and delivery.
• Has extensive experience in cultural heritage management in capital and operational projects.
• Has experience operating within teams, mentoring and guiding others and creating a positive workplace environment.
• Demonstrates the ability to collaborate with and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Hold a high level of interpersonal, oral and written skills including demonstrated experience presenting technical matters to stakeholders.
• Demonstrate high attention to detail, and ability to analyse issues and problem solve, lead risk management development and effectively interpret heritage legislation as it relates to land use activities.
• Has a Bachelor Degree in Archaeology, Cultural Heritage Management, Anthropology, or a related field.

Be part of shaping the Gold Coast's future

The Gold Coast is inspired by lifestyle and driven by opportunity. We are the second largest Council in Australia.

We care about being the most flexible government organisation in Australia and we have a range of benefits to help you create the right balance:

• Flexible work arrangements to suit your lifestyle, including hybrid/work from home options, flexible working hours and location.
• Access to 350+ fitness facilities through Fitness Passport
• 4 free confidential counselling sessions a year for you or an immediate family member
• 1 free nutritionist and financial advice session per year

We pride ourselves on our shared mission of being a high-performing, customer-focused organisation which delivers value-for-money services to the community. We're committed to creating a diverse workplace and inclusive culture.

How to apply:

Click 'Apply' to submit your online application via the City's online recruitment portal. Upload your Resume with a Cover Letter (of no more than 2 pages) outlining how your skills, experience and personal attributes would allow you to achieve success in this role.

Documents need to be less than 2MB in size and PDF format is preferred. If you encounter technical issues when applying, please email 

Our selection process may include a one-way video interview via Criteria, a face-to-face or virtual interview via Microsoft Teams, reference checks via Xref and additional checks including police checks, employment history checks, qualification checks, pre-employment medical reviews and drug and alcohol testing.

Please note applications for all of our vacancies close at 10.30pm on the listed closing date.

The City of Gold Coast is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace. We are committed to supporting an environment where all employees, regardless of their differences or similarities, feel valued, respected and supported. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander persons are encouraged to apply.