Compliance Delivery Manager

Queensland Government; Cairns Regional; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government’s Reef Compliance and Regulation leadership team seeks a Compliance Delivery Manager to lead a dedicated professional team delivering farm compliance inspections and permit assessments to ensure agricultural producers meet regulated practice standards.

You will guide enforcement recommendations, manage complex environmental issues, mentor staff, and engage with industry partners to advance regulatory outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team tasked with delivering farm compliance inspections and permit assessments to ensure agricultural producers and advisors meet regulated practice standards.
• Provide guidance on environmental risks and enforcement actions, and develop strategies to address risk management and complex environmental issues.
• Mentor and train staff to enable capability uplift and effective stakeholder engagement with industry partners.
• Support First Nations Priority Consideration initiatives and engage with stakeholders to deliver key projects across the program.

Job description

# Acareerthatmatters. #Acontributionthatcounts.

Do you have a passion for Great Barrier Reef water quality? Are you ready to write a new chapter in your leadership story?

Everyone at our Department recognises the importance of a healthy environment. Whatever your job with us, you’ll strive and innovate to achieve a better Queensland. Our role is complex and our work can be challenging - important work usually is. But your contribution will count, and so will you.

Join our Reef Compliance and Regulation leadership team as a Compliance Delivery Manager.

Our team works with agricultural producers throughout Great Barrier Reef catchments to support the increased adoption of improved farm practice and reduce sediment and nutrient run-off to Reef waters.

As the leader of a dedicated and professional team, your responsibility is to lead a team tasked with delivering farm compliance inspections and permit assessments to ensure agricultural producers and advisors are meeting regulated practice standards for agricultural activities.

Our approach is to engage with industry partners to drive the voluntary adoption of regulated farm practice standards, and this role allows you to explore and adopt new and emerging approaches to regulatory work.

As a Compliance Delivery Manager, you will manage complex environmental issues and provide guidance and advice on compliance activities and environmental risks to key industry stakeholders and management; consider recommendations and make decisions on enforcement actions; and lead the development of strategies to address risk management and complex environmental issues.

We are looking for someone wanting to take their leadership skills to the next level. You will bring high-level experience in implementation of compliance and assessment legislative functions, and experience in the day-to-day management of a team. You will be a skilled and motivated team player who values team culture and can work seamlessly with both their team members and broader departmental staff.

Your practical approach, coupled with the capacity to mentor and train others, will enable you to work effectively alongside others to enable capability uplift.

You will be a natural problem solver, with the ability to think on your feet and a natural communicator, at ease when presented with challenging or sensitive conversations. Your knowledge of stakeholder engagement practices and mechanisms to effectively engage and work collaboratively with agricultural producers and industry will be instrumental in enabling the delivery of key projects and initiatives across the program.

Drawing on your applied knowledge, you will be able to resolve complex and contentious matters relating to environmental management and regulation, assisting and providing advice to the Reef Compliance and Regulation team, and making decisions in regard to compliance and enforcement recommendations.

Are you a First Nations person? The department has designated this position as a First Nations Priority Consideration position.

Why work for us?

Our organisation values its people, respecting and embracing diversity and a balance between work and life commitments. Our staff are passionate about delivering outstanding environmental services to the communities throughout our diverse region.

Visit our website https://www.detsi.qld.gov.au/our-department/employment/people-stories to learn more about working for us and meet some of our fantastic people. The role may be undertaken from our Office locations at either Mackay, Rockhampton, Townsville or Cairns, but you'll need to be flexible to travel, including overnight.

Occupational group

Primary Industry & Environment