Extensive experience in community engagement regarding natural resource management issues. Excellent engagement skills with community groups, Government and regional organisations, farming groups, not for profit groups, and first nations people.
Developing Management Plans and have sound knowledge and extensive experience in ethical and humane pest plant and animal management.
Strong negotiation skills and experienced in negotiating complex agreements.
Confident and efficient in media interviews, webinars, and written material.
Continual and long-standing management of conservation properties, including the dry interior and riverine environments of Australia.
Strong knowledge of native plants and animals in the southern Murray Darling Basin.
Experienced in staff management, and capable of working remotely and in remote areas.
· Negotiating Conservation covenants on land title, and land purchase for landscape scale conservation outcomes.
· Manage and design Multi land tenure projects including pest plant and animal control, and revegetation.
· Flora and fauna surveys.
· Working with farmers and other land managers in landscape scale planning and assessment for threatened species recovery.
· Property management plans and understanding individual landholder views and family plans.
· Managing conservation properties, including extensive wetlands and riverine environments.
· Identification of native plants and animals
· Native seed collection and management
· Revegetation with seed and tube stock.
Manage seed collection programs and revegetation programs. Record information of previous farm forestry sites.
Engage seed collectors, oversee seed preparation, storage and payment to collectors.
· Irrigation and dryland farming, including organically certified vegetables, melons, grains.
· Livestock husbandry.
· Contract sheep shearing.
· Victorian Department of Conservation Forests and lands – Pest plant and animal management.
· Negotiating and engagement with grain farmers in relation to commodities pricing and classification with Australian Barley Board and Grain elevators Board and Vic Grain (GrainCorp).
- listen and adapt to various audiences
- understand and appreciate different styles and ideas
- convey complex ideas and concepts in a simple, factual, and understandable manner
- Experienced with pest animal management, design, and ethical operation
Networking and working with stakeholders, first nations people and rural community groups
Organising meetings and speaking at meetings
Approaching, contacting, and engaging with stakeholders who may rarely attend meetings etc
Working remotely and in office environments