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The National Fire Ant Eradication Program is Australia’s largest ever eradication program. Eradicating fire ants is a national priority, and this is your opportunity to join us and make a real difference. You will work with a team of passionate individuals to have visible impact in your community and directly contribute to making Queensland a better place to live.

Just imagine what you could achieve with us.

Job details

As our Principal Policy Officer - Responsive Coordination, you will: 
• Guide and manage the Programs evaluation and response to priority one detections in accordance with Program protocols, with particular attention to:
o Implementing the first phase of the response and information gathering to inform future response.
o Analysis of data to ensure accuracy, to determine the future response and budget.
o Reporting back to NFAEP Senior Leadership and relevant governance committees.
• Supervise the delivery of key responsive capabilities (Direct Nest Injection and Odor Detection Dog) to ensure prompt and efficient delivery of these functions.
• Collaborate across the Program to ensure responsive capabilities respond to identified high risk detections in accordance with key Program deliverables. This will require a demonstrated understanding of treatment and surveillance protocols, stakeholder management and customer relations, amongst other key skills.
• Negotiate and communicate with a broad range of stakeholder groups to guide responses to priority one detections. 
• Provide timely reports to Program governance committees on progress of responses to priority one detections and key functions of the Program's responsive capabilities.
• Provide technical advice to stakeholders on the effective treatment of fire ants including risk mitigation, surveillance, treatment and reporting.
• Provide advice to the Director Specialist Operations in respect to optimising the key responsive capabilities for the Program.
• Undertake risk and issue identification, assessment and mitigation activities ensuring risks and issues are documented and escalated along with recommendations.

You may also have
• Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline and/or relevant transferable experience would be desirable.

What we are looking for
We are seeking the best suited candidate for the role. We will achieve this by:
• assessing your eligibility and suitability to fulfill the role requirements (including, where relevant, the way you carried out previous roles)
• evaluating your potential contributions to the department and how your involvement would uphold our commitment to equity, diversity, respect, and inclusion.

Eligibility requirements
You will be asked to provide evidence of how you meet the eligibility requirements during the selection process.
Citizenship or visa requirements
To be eligible for this opportunity, you must be an Australian citizen, hold permanent residency status, or possess a visa allowing you to work in Australia. 
If you are not an Australian citizen, you must:
• provide evidence of your residency status or visa, along with your right to work (including any conditions and/or restrictions
• inform the department if your right to work in Australia ceases.
Licences and registrations 
• A current ‘C' class drivers licence

Applications to remain current for 12 months

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Please ensure you download all attachments and follow the instructions on how to apply.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• dpi-candidate-information-pack (PDF, 256KB)
  
  
  673792 25 Role description (Word, 1.04MB)