Team Leader Feral Animal Education & Control

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region -Connected. Liveable. Thriving, our region is a model of sustainability, where caring for our environment, creating vibrant communities and growing our local economy is a way of life.

About the Role

The Regulatory Response Services branch is accountable for ensuring the education, safety and amenity of our Sunshine Coast Community through the provision of response services.

This role will provide leadership and support to the Feral Animal Education and Control team. You will adopt effective strategies to implement feral animal education and control projects and programs and ensure there is a team focus providing high performance standards.

It is the responsibility of the Officer to interpret legislation, regulations, policies, management plans and strategies and develop processes and procedures.

As the successful incumbent, you will:

• Liaise effectively, professionally and positively with members of the community, staff, Councillors external consultants, sub-consultants, contractors or suppliers to ensure the timely delivery of projects/programs/services.
• Manage the preparation, implementation and review of feral animal education and control projects and programs, including overseeing the physical, financial and administrative aspects and reporting performance.
• Develop and contribute specialist knowledge to strategies, policies, standard operating guidelines, reports, briefings, submissions and discussion papers on current and emerging issues relevant to the feral animal education and control projects and programs.
• Coordinate consultation and community engagement processes relevant to community action and engagement programs using a high level of judgement, problem solving, decision making and communication skills.
• Provide team leadership that supports a team culture that values diversity and inclusion and encourages and supports team work, employee engagement, innovation, openness, participation, learning and development.

About you

You will possess a bachelor’s degree related to Natural Resource Management, Environmental Health or tertiary qualifications and/or significant relevant industry experience relating to pest animal control principles, techniques and best practice, and ability to assist and/or deliver operational requirements where appropriate.

Complementing this will be demonstrated leadership skills to build strong, customer focussed teams and foster a workplace culture consistent with Council’s corporate values along with extensive relevant experience with demonstrated ability to understand and apply legislation, policies, standards, regulations and procedures relevant to the area of work.

Please note, a requirement of this role:

• Ability to undertake the Group Licence Holder role to manage Council’s firearms with a demonstrated competency in overseeing the operational use of organisation firearms, including maintenance, storage, registers, training, and auditing requirements.
• Be available for the oncall roster/ out of hours demands relating to feral animal response.
• It is prohibited from being employed in or from operating a business as a second job that is associated with feral animal control.

Essential to your success is physical agility and the level of fitness, strength and dexterity. As such, appointment to this position is subject to completion of a pre-employment medical assessment.

Appointment to this position is subject to the satisfactory completion of a Criminal History Check. 

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a 9-day fortnight and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2025-2030.

For specific enquiries contact Mark Call during business hours on 0417 755 284.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.