Senior Project Coordinator - Surface Elevation Tables

• Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

• $96 - $105k + 17% super

• Secure a full time contract until June 2027

• Drive impactful change and advance your career   

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world.

Everyone here has a role to play. As a member of our professional staff cohort, you will be actively involved in working towards our vision of a better world. By supporting the academic endeavour across teaching, research, and the student life, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to activities that have a lasting impact on our community.

Join a community where excellence is at the core of our culture, contributions are valued and a range of benefits and rewards are available, such as:

• 26 weeks paid parental leave or 14 weeks paid primary caregiver leave

• 17% superannuation contributions

• 17.5% annual leave loading

• Access to flexible working arrangements including hybrid working options, flexible start/finish times, purchased leave, and a condensed fortnight

• Health and wellness discounts – fitness passport access, free yearly flu vaccinations, discounted health insurance, and access to our Employee Assistance Program for staff and their immediate family

• Salary packaging options

About This Opportunity 

TERN is an Australian Government initiative to enhance Australia’s environmental research effort, particularly in the area of changes over space and time in biodiversity, land cover and carbon and water. The TERN infrastructure investments are distributed widely under contracts to other universities and CSIRO and are coordinated and managed nationally by the TERN Project Office, located at the University of Queensland (UQ) in Brisbane.

The Project Coordinator - Surface Elevation Tables will support the development of a monitoring network comprised of marine and coastal infrastructure called Surface Elevation Tables – Marker Horizon (SET-MHs) installations.  The project aims to monitor the impacts of sea level rise and other environmental conditions on resilience of coastal wetlands to sea level rise around Australia. We will engage expert users of SET-MHs, develop standard monitoring protocols and make data available through TERN.

The coordinator will communicate across all stakeholders in the project and will keep TERN and the user group up to date on all activities occurring in the project. This includes coordinating events, e.g. joint user group meetings and field trips and interactions with TERN staff.

The position is based across the St Lucia Campus and Long Pocket site. Some travel may be required for the role.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Coordinates activities of the project team including SET-MH user groups and TERN staff and liaise with broader TERN activities on behalf of the SET-MH users

• Provides technical advice for new SET-MH users and TERN staff.

• Develops technical guidelines, facilitates and undertakes field work including deployment of SET-MH instruments

• Contributes to data analysis and development of monitoring network outputs, including Milestone reports

• Assists in the preparation of project budgets to meet project activities timely and efficiently

• Organizes project travel bookings, travel forms, Fieldwork Safety Plans and Risk Assessments

About You

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated coastal wetland ecologist to support TERN's contribution to the Coasts RI project. The successful candidate will have a strong background in coastal wetland ecology and experimental ecology with significant experience and expertise with SET-MH instruments and their use and exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Completion of undergraduate qualifications in coastal wetland ecology with subsequent relevant experience or an equivalent combination of relevant experience and/or education/training

• Experience in convening scientific working groups and collaboration in large groups, including handling and analysis of large data sets, developing data sharing arrangements and archiving data

• Experience in installation of surface elevation table - marker horizon instruments and use of surface elevation table-marker horizon methods and analysis of data streams from these instruments

• Experience in field work in coastal wetland ecosystems

• The ability to monitor budgets, financial reports and awareness of project monitoring and evaluation procedures, including submission of milestone documents.

• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills, ability to prioritise own workload, work independently and meet deadlines.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Background Checks: All final applicants for this position may be asked to consent to a criminal record check. Please note that people with criminal records are not automatically barred from applying for this position. Each application will be considered on its merits. 

What We Can Offer  

 This is a full-time, fixed-term position through to 30 June 2027 at HEW level 7. 

The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $96,649 to $105,244 plus super of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be in the range $113,080 to $123,136 per annum.  

For further information about UQ’s benefits, please visit Why Work at UQ  and review The University of Queensland's Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2018-2021 .  

Questions?  

To discuss this role please contact Professor Catherine Lovelock on 07 3365 2304 or via [email protected] .

For application queries, please contact [email protected]  stating the job reference number in the subject line.  

Want to Apply? 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Cover letter addressing the ‘About You’ section  

• Resume 

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected] .

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Sunday 31 March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (Job Reference Number - R-36379).

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