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Victoria, Australia

Strategic Leadership & Project & Program Management: Develop and implement a Capability Framework for EAD response roles, outlining training pathways and accreditation.Communication Skills: Execute an EAD Workforce, Training, and Capability Communications Plan.Data Analysis & Consequence Management: Establish systems for monitoring capability development, providing insights for future EAD surge preparedness.Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with interdepartmental teams to ensure seamless communication and execution of project deliverables.Stakeholder Engagement & Time Management: Facilitate stakeholder meetings to collect feedback and continuously improve project outcomes.Financial Acumen: Manage project resources, ensuring optimal allocation for timely and effective completion.

Victoria, Australia

Critical role in overseeing governance arrangements for strategic biosecurity project activities, including coordination of multiple inter-dependent projects and the management of resources, budgets, risks and issues to support program success.Project & Program Management: Provided whole-program oversight, including development of project plans and managing pilots.Change Management & Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitated recruitment of independent members to the Program Control Board.Financial Acumen & Risk Assessment: Oversaw procurement of professional services for program evaluation.

Victoria, Australia

Deployment and contribution as Planning Officer to a number of Covid missions, agricultural relief and biosecurity emergencies including Campaign Fires December 2019Lead the reporting, monitoring and financial acquittal of Sheep Electronic Identification abattoir category grants by:o Monitoring active grants toward completiono Administering grant milestones to meet due dateso Reporting on current status program as required.Provide timely and high-quality advice on complex and sensitive issues, including critical analysis, synthesis and translation of technical traceability-related information and prepare and review quality reports, briefings and ministerial correspondence as required.Consequence Management: Contributed to a variety of emergency missions including Campaign Fires, Operation Soteria, and Avian Influenza.Financial Acumen & Time Management: Led the financial acquittal of Sheep Electronic Identification grants, ensuring timely completion.Technical Report Writing & Communication Skills: Delivered high-quality advice on complex issues related to technical traceability.

Victoria, Australia

Coordinating strategic planning meetings with the Golden Plains, Moorabool and Balllarat municipalities to identify potential economic development projects, their potential sources of funding and criteria to meeting employment outcomes.Supporting the delivery of Regional Jobs and Infrastructure Fund (RJIF) election commitment projects by attending Project Control Group and stakeholder meetings.Worked directly with local governments to develop, submit and monitor RJIF projects and to monitor project milestones.Prepared high quality, well researched correspondence, reports, submissions and briefings with clear and concise recommendations including Potential Ministerial Opportunities associated with RJIF and legacy infrastructure projects and programs.Strategic Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement: Coordinated planning meetings to identify potential economic development projects.Project & Program Management: Supported delivery of Regional Jobs and Infrastructure Fund (RJIF) projects through effective stakeholder engagement.Technical Report Writing & Risk Assessment: Prepared well-researched reports and briefings to influence decision-making.

Victoria, Australia

Contributed to major reform activities for the wild dog program, including the election commitment to reinvigorate advisory committees by: developing policy and strategy, preparing and reviewing orders and permits, leading initiative design, conducting project level risk prioritisation and assessment, monitoring wild dog related media, contributing to communication strategies and product development.Formulating timely and accurate replies to ministerial correspondence, briefing notes and requests from senior managers that require technical, economic, social and environmental information.Providing administrative and secretariat support services to a number of statutory and consultative committees including briefings to the minister and secretary and highlighting any risk or implication to the department associated with recommendations.Developing and maintaining administrative, financial and budgetary record management systems to support efficient committee business.

Victoria, Australia

Coordinating invasive animal management policies.

Ballarat

Strategic input into the Future Farming Initiative Securing Wild Dogs Project by contributing to program planning and roll-out of the Code of Practice and Standard Operating Procedures for best practice wild dog controlAssisted the launch of the Victorian Fox and Wild Dog Bounty by contributing to the terms and conditions, frequently asked questions and website information to promote and describe the project

Ballarat, Australia

Project leader for the management of new and emerging invasive animals.

Victoria, Australia

Project leader of the Future Farming Strategy project for the management of new and emerging invasive animals.Provision of policy advice and input to strategic approaches for invasive animal management.

Victoria, Australia

Management of four staff and coordination of invasive plant and animal project delivery within the Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management Authority area.

Victoria, Australia

Extension, compliance and enforcement officer for invasive plant and animal projects and programs, e.g gorse and rabbit control projects. Project leader for roadside invasive plant and animals projects in collaboration with local government. Weed Alert Contact Officer for new and emerging invasive plants as part of a state wide program.

Victoria, Australia

Conducting a gorse control project along key waterways and roadsides including the coordination and provision of subsidies with Ararat Rural City.Implementing extension projects to contribute to the Rabbit Action Plan for the Glenelg-Hopkins and the Corangamite Catchment Management Authorities.Mapping of areas infested with gorse within Crown land Parcels associated with the GHCMA waterway project.Developing work plan agreements and supporting enforcement officer where necessary to achieve compliance with noxious weed and pest animal control.

Bachelor'S Degree, Environmental Science

Associate Diploma, Applied Science - Natural Resource Management

Advanced Certificate, Agribusiness/Agricultural Business Operations