Manager - Flexible

Queensland Government; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Queensland Government is seeking a senior manager to lead a multidisciplinary team within the Permission Management and Ecotourism Branch of QPWS and Partnerships. The role focuses on developing and delivering an integrated permit management system with statewide authority oversight.

The position requires strategic thinking, strong leadership, and proven stakeholder engagement across government bodies, local communities, and Traditional Owners.

Qualifications

• Leadership behaviours and ability to lead a multidisciplinary team.
• Shapes strategic thinking and translates goals into tasks.
• Achieves results with clear plans and change management.
• Cultivates productive relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Exemplifies personal drive and integrity within policy constraints.
• Communicates with influence and negotiates effectively.
• Contributes to safety, diversity, respect and inclusion.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a multidisciplinary team to develop and deliver an integrated permit management system.
• Provide strategic statewide oversight for authorities’ management and digital permit systems.
• Engage internal and external stakeholders, including authorities, local government, and Traditional Owners.

Job description

Working In The Permission Management And Ecotourism Branch Within Queensland Parks And Wildlife Service And Partnerships, The Manager Will Lead And Manage a Multidisciplinary Team To Develop And Deliver An Efficient, Transparent And Integrated System Of Assessing And Administering

• authorities to conduct commercial activities on Queensland’s terrestrial estate (including the sand islands) within Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service’s (QPWS’) regions; and
• authorities to conduct research statewide.

This role will provide strategic oversight for authorities’ management on a State-wide basis, including the management of the permit digital systems.

What You Need For This Role

• Role model Individual contributor leadership behaviours as outlined in the Leadership competencies for Queensland.
• Shapes strategic thinking—understanding of, or the ability to rapidly acquire an understanding of, the Department's strategic agenda, and the capacity to translate associated high-level goals and outcomes into appropriate tasks for others, including communicating about the purpose of the team's work and the relationship of that work to organisational goals.
• Achieves results—proven leadership and management skills at strategic and operational levels including the establishment of clear plans and timeframes for project implementation; demonstrated ability to steer and implement change and deal with uncertainty.
• Cultivates productive working relationships—demonstrated high level consultation skills with a proven ability to establish networks and build and sustain productive relationships with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders including authority applicants, authority holders, local government agencies, Traditional Owners and their representative bodies, and State and Commonwealth government agencies.
• Exemplifies personal drive and integrity—acts professionally and impartially at all times and operates within the boundaries of organisational processes and logicaley, legal and public policy constraints.
• Communicates with influence—proven ability to present messages in a clear, concise and articulate manner; approaches negotiations with a strong grasp of the key issues and a clear understanding of the desired objectives and associated strengths and weaknesses.
• Contribute to workplace safety, equity, diversity, respect and inclusion by bringing your unique experiences and perspectives.

Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander priority consideration

To enable the selection panel to confirm that you are eligible for priority consideration, the panel requires:

• your written assertion that you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent.

Diverse Ability priority consideration

To enable the selection panel to confirm that you are eligible for priority consideration, the panel requires:

• your written assertion that you are a person with disability.

Applications will remain current for 12 months.

Occupational group Project Management