Position Vacant!
Are you passionate about the conservation of Victoria’s threatened native plants? Use your excellent interpersonal, communication and organisational skills to:
- work collaboratively with a diverse team of stakeholders to plan and deliver four plant conservation events in Victoria.
- work in a timely manner, with minimal supervision, and within strict deadlines.
- draft communications materials for a broad range of audiences including websites, newsletters and social media.
Title: Project Manager, Victoria
Location: Remote, VIC (Melbourne preferred)
Salary etc: $65 p.h. casual rate (includes leave loading) + 12% super. Average 10 hours/week for 12-month contract, worked flexibly throughout the year depending on need.
Download the Position Description here.
Objectives of the position
- Undertake two workshops and one conference on Victorian threatened flora conservation to bring together stakeholders, first nations people and community members.
- The two workshops aim to disseminate the results of the three-year project “Preventing the extinction of Victoria’s threatened flora” in the eastern and western regions of the state and establish networks for conserving threatened flora.
- The conference aims to broaden the scope to other Victorian threatened flora along with their research and management.
- All three events will be undertaken in collaboration with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV), La Trobe University and other project partners.
- Undertake one Bring Back the Banksias workshop to disseminate the results of genetic analysis work undertaken since 2020.
- To assist the ANPC Management Committee in fulfilling its Mission to ‘promote and develop plant conservation in Australia’.
Background
The three-year “Preventing the extinction of Victoria’s threatened flora” project aims to prevent the extinction of 24 endangered or critically endangered Victorian plants. Funded by the Victorian Government’s Nature Fund Grants, it is focusing on two botanical hotspots, the Gippsland and Grampians regions, as well as threatened flora from the Barwon South West and Port Phillip regions. Click here for more information on this project.
Many partners are collaborating on this project and will form a major part of the events as both presenters and attendees. Other project partners include the Victorian Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA), Parks Victoria, Trust for Nature, Wimmera Catchment Management Authority, Nillumbik Shire, ENVITE, Bairnsdale & District Field Naturalists Club, Friends of the Grampians Gariwerd, WAMA Botanic Gardens, Halls Gap Botanic Gardens and the Australasian Native Orchid Society Victorian Branch.
The “Bring Back the Banksias” project undertaken from 2014 to 2020, aimed to improve the conservation status of Silver Banksia (Banksia marginata) across regional Victoria and south-western NSW. This included coordinating the collection of plant material for genetic testing across its range to inform sound restoration strategies. This work is now complete and there is a need to disseminate the results to establish recommendations and strategies for seed procurement for restoration and best mixes for SPAs. Click here for more information on this project.
How to apply
Download the Position Description here.
Your application must address all the Selection Criteria and separately include an up-to-date CV with the contact details for two referees.
Please send your application to the ANPC Business Manager, Jo Lynch, by 5pm Friday 5 December via email to business@anpc.asn.au
The position will remain open until filled, with the first closing date 5 December and interviews to be held the following week via Zoom.
For more information, please contact the ANPC Business Manager via email business@anpc.asn.au and provide a phone number if you would prefer a return call.