Agriculture Sector Lead

Bureau of Meteorology; Australia; Remote; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A national meteorological service is looking for an Agriculture Sector Lead to lead a team focused on improving the agricultural sector's resilience to climate change. The role involves managing customer engagement, delivering impactful projects, and supporting the development of innovative solutions. Candidates should possess strong leadership and project management skills, and demonstrate a commitment to the wellbeing and performance of their team. The position is based in Australia, with closing applications on 6 March 2026.

Qualifications

• Experience in leading teams and managing performance.
• Strong background in project management.
• Ability to engage with customers and stakeholders effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead a geographically distributed team focused on agriculture.
• Oversee weather, climate, and water projects.
• Build relationships with agriculture customers and partners.
• Support improvements in Bureau's products.
• Develop opportunities to improve the agriculture sector's climate resilience.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Customer engagement

Strategic planning

Relationship building

Job description

Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane, Darwin, Perth, Canberra, Melbourne

Position overview

The Agriculture Sector Lead leads a team of staff dedicated to increasing the value and impact the Bureau delivers to Australia's Agriculture sector.

The Agriculture Sector Lead is accountable for managing a team of customer engagement staff, who deliver projects and provide excellent customer service, identify and prioritise customer needs and opportunities, develop compelling cases for change, and convert opportunities to projects.

The Agriculture Sector Lead will support their staff to develop initiatives to support the adoption and application of Bureau products and services within the sector, leveraging partnerships where effective. They will work cooperatively with colleagues, to identify common needs across the Bureau's priority customer sectors and pursue the most significant opportunities to deliver value and impact to the country.

The Agriculture Sector Lead leads projects and activities that aim to have real impacts to the agriculture sector by raising the awareness, knowledge and skills of farmers with regards to weather, climate and water information to support customers to take action to adapt to a changing climate.

The successful candidate is passionate about the wellbeing, performance and development of team members and collaborate with delivery partners and customers to develop and implement impactful solutions.

Under the broad direction of the Agriculture Section Manager, the responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Leading a geographically distributed team of agriculture-focused staff, ensuring effective resource management, workforce planning, and management of staff development, wellbeing and performanc2Overseeing the delivery of agriculture focussed weather, climate and water projects, including senior project representation with customers and partners.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with colleagues within the Bureau and with key Bureau partners to enable effective project delivery and synergies.
• Building and maintaining trusted relationships with agriculture customers; government agencies and industry bodies.
• Supporting continual improvement of the Bureau’s products and services to deliver impact and value for agricultural customers.
• Leading the development of opportunities to improve the agriculture sector's climate resilience.
• Providing strategic advice to the Agriculture Section Manager as required.
• Demonstrating commitment to APS Values, Employment Principles, Code of Conduct and the Bureau's Social Justice Strategy.
• Complying with all Bureau work, health and safety policies and procedures, and taking reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of employees, contractors and visitors who may be affected by your conduct.

Application Closing Time and Date: 11:30pm, Friday 6 March 2026

For further information please review the position description on https://bomcareers.nga.net.au/?jati=4C9EFD39-F3C3-A71D-4464-ECAABF721E00