Sarah Agterhuis

• Lead cross-departmental projects engaging with a variety of stakeholders to develop engaging financially viable experiences
• Develop experiences and associated safety procedures for experiences, and provide staff training.
• Develop strategies to increase occupancy and revenue of products
• Prepare budgets and business cases for Senior Management and Corporate teams.
• Identify and implement opportunities for visitors to engage with Zoos Victoria's values including conservation programs, positive animal welfare and "share our care".

• Coordinate fieldwork teams (staff and volunteers), including rapid surveys, general surveys, commissioning, and decommissioning of towers, and data access for tower dataloggers.
• Map creation for field data collection, and ongoing data and map management within ArcGIS and Field Maps, including troubleshooting and support for the field team.
• Creation of safety paperwork and training of staff and volunteers.
• Provided support for BirdLife regional coordinators to format data for the Orange-bellied Parrot Resight Database.
• Consulted with Melbourne Water and Corangamite CMA for habitat management and civil works that may impact Orange-bellied Parrots.
• Stakeholder engagement
• Drone operations for tracking and testing of tags with the tower system.
• Fieldwork, including rapid surveys, general monitoring, tower commissioning, and decommissioning.

• Coordinated field team, including training and rostering.
• Created and maintained maps using ArcGIS and Field Maps for field data collection.
• Preparation of safety paperwork and training of staff.
• Managed permitting for work through Parks Victoria and Melbourne Water.
• Analyzed and prepared data for reporting, including mapping, the resight database, the Victorian biodiversity atlas, and funding reporting.
• Stakeholder engagement between landholders, Parks Vic, Melbourne Water, DEECA, CMA, and Zoos Victoria, including staff and volunteers.

Safari Guide and Slumber Leader: October 2008 - August 2011

Safari & Slumber Coordinator August 2011 - September 2017

• Championing positive relationships between Safari team and other on site teams.
• Facilitate cross-departmental project including Lean decision making processes and delivery.
• Staff coordination including rostering and training for 50 casual Safari and Slumber guides