Integrated Water Management Specialist

Hume City Council; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 111,000 - 122,000; Full time

Job summary

Hume City Council is seeking an Integrated Water Management Specialist to lead the strategy and delivery of the Council’s IWM Plan. You will champion projects from concept to completion, engage cross‑discipline teams and external partners, and manage budgets and funding opportunities.

You will provide strategic advice on water management, asset management and guidelines, representing Council at forums and supporting advocacy efforts.

Qualifications

• Required tertiary qualifications or extensive relevant experience in water management or related field.
• Experience developing and reviewing environmental strategies and policies.
• Strong background in Integrated Water Management and project delivery.

Responsibilities

• Review and develop the Integrated Water Management Plan for best practice water management.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external partners to implement IWM actions.
• Provide strategic and technical advice on IWM projects and asset management.
• Develop documentation and guidance on IWM outcomes.
• Lead IWM projects including water efficiency, WSUD and stormwater harvesting with external funding, budgets, consultants and teams.
• Progress multiple complex projects with prioritisation and stakeholder engagement.
• Support integrated outcomes with partners and stakeholders.

Skills

Integrated Water Management

Stakeholder engagement

Budget management

Strategic thinking

Leadership

Policy development

Education

Engineering / Environmental sciences degree or related field

Job description

• Compensation: AUD 110,506.76 - AUD 122,443.88 - yearly

Job Description

• Permanent Full Time
• $110,506.76 - $122,443.88 per annum plus Superannuation(depending on experience)
• Join the Sustainability, Climate and Wasteteam

Hume City Council is one of Australia’s fastest growing and culturally diverse councils. We put the customer and our community at the centre of all that we do, ensuring our services are efficient and accessible.

The Integrated Water Management Specialist leads the strategy, project delivery and stakeholder engagement, helping shape a more sustainable water future for Hume. The successful candidate will champion the development, implementation, monitoring, review and reporting of Hume City Council’s Integrated Water Management (IWM) Plan, while leading the delivery of IWM projects from concept to completion. Working collaboratively across Council and with external partners, you will identify IWM opportunities, secure funding, manage budgets, engage consultants and work with multidisciplinary project teams. You will provide strategic and technical advice on IWM initiatives and asset management, develop and review strategic documents and guidance, represent Council at industry forums and support advocacy opportunities. The role provides expert advice to Council, senior management and the community on integrated water management outcomes.

What you’ll be doing:

• Review and develop the Integrated Water Management Plan to ensure best practice water management and enhanced climate resilience across Council operations and services.
• Champion and liaise with other teams across Council and external stakeholders to facilitate input, ownership and implementation of relevant Integrated Water Management actions and partnerships.
• Provide strategic and technical advice for Integrated Water Management projects and asset management.
• Develop, review and provide input into guidelines and documentation relating to Integrated Water Management outcomes.
• Develop and manage Integrated Water Management projects including water efficiency, water sensitive urban design (WSUD), stormwater harvesting projects including seeking external funding, managing project budgets, engaging and managing consultants, leading diverse project teams, obtaining approvals and resolving problems.
• Manage and progress a number of complex projects and responsibilities concurrently with sound prioriitisation skills.
• Seek and support integrated outcomes internally and with external partners and stakeholders.

The skills and experience you’ll bring to the role:

• Sound understanding and application of the principles and practices of best practice Integrated Water Management with engineering skills an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and set future directions and to develop strategies and policies to achieve sound Integrated Water Managementoutcomes to build the resilience of Council operations and services.
• Demonstrated knowledge of the role and function of local government and an ability to understand the long term goals of the organisation and legal and political context in which it operates, including in regard to other levels of government.
• Well-developed knowledge of Victorian and Commonwealth legislation and policy in relation to integrated water management.
• Contributing leadership to the Climate Action Integration team by mentoring, developing and supporting staff in collaboration with the Coordinator.
• Demonstrated skills in managing time, setting priorities, planning and organising own work within a flexible and generally independent framework.
• Demonstrated ability to gain cooperation and assistance and help build capacity of colleagues, contractors and external stakeholders to achieve strategic objectives and implement projects.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare correspondence, reports, submissions and draft policies and procedures for presentation to Council and external stakeholders.

Required Certifications & Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in engineering, environmental sciences, water resources management, water sensitive urban design or a related field or lesser formal qualifications with extensive relevant experience.
• Substantial experience in the development, coordination and review of environmental strategies and policies.
• Demonstrated high level experience in environmental management including project management of Integrated Water Management projects.

A leader in local government, we’re committed to creating an inclusive and collaborative work environment that is guided by our values:

We’re better, every day: We give things a go and value progress over perfection. We have permission to go for it and are expected to reflect and learn.

We’re in it together: At Hume, everyone matters. We Welcome and include all. Respect and safety are expected.

We show up: We empower and trust others and own our work. We rise to the challenges and are expected to do what we say we will.

All for Hume: We strive to achieve our best for the Hume Community. We are proud and passionate about working towards better outcomes and expect they are at the centre of everything we do.

We offer a competitive salary package, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment.

A child safe organisation and an equal opportunity employer. Council encourages people of all ages, people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTIQA+ people and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

All candidates will be required to undertake background and probity checks including Reference Checks, Working with Children Check, and a Criminal Record Check.