Vertebrate Fauna Team Coach & Lead

Biologic Environmental; Perth; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family-friendly initiatives

Gym & wellbeing facilities

Training & development budget

Career development opportunities

Field allowance

Job summary

Biologic is seeking an Associate Manager – Vertebrate Fauna to lead and develop a passionate zoological team in Perth, starting January 2027. You’ll coach, align workloads, and foster a collaborative culture built on respect, curiosity and shared accountability.

You’ll work closely with the Manager – Vertebrate Fauna and senior team members to grow people, deliver meaningful biodiversity outcomes, and create a safe, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives thrive.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading, supervising, coaching or developing people.
• Strong communication and relationship-building skills, with an ability to listen well and build trust.
• Collaborative leadership style that brings people into conversations and values different perspectives.
• Integrity and good judgement, particularly when navigating sensitive or challenging people matters.
• Solution-focused mindset and the ability to remain pragmatic when priorities compete or things don’t go to plan.
• Responsive leadership approach, adapting your support to the needs of different people and situations.
• Curiosity and an innovative mindset, with a willingness to question existing ways of working and explore better approaches.
• The confidence to be bold, speak openly, constructively challenge thinking and have honest conversations when needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support your people, creating an environment where people feel valued, connected and clear on what’s expected.
• Coach, mentor and develop team members, recognising individual strengths and creating opportunities for people to grow.
• Bring people together, encouraging collaboration, open communication and different perspectives when working through challenges.
• Coordinate workloads, resourcing and priorities with the Manager and senior Vertebrate Fauna team, responding to changing project and team needs.
• Have regular, honest and constructive conversations, approaching feedback and performance with integrity, fairness and respect.
• Take a solution-focused approach to challenges, helping the team move from problems to practical ways forward.
• Encourage innovation and curiosity, creating space for people to challenge how things are done and explore better ways of working.
• Be responsive to your people, recognising when support, clarity or a different approach is needed.
• Be bold when it matters, raising issues early, having the conversations that need to happen and supporting positive change.
• Help create a safe, inclusive and collaborative culture where people can contribute their expertise while delivering meaningful work and better biodiversity outcomes.

Skills

People leadership

Communication

Relationship-building

Collaborative leadership

Integrity

Problem solving

Adaptable leadership

Curiosity mindset

Bold communication

Organisational skills

Job description

Biologic is seeking an Associate Manager – Vertebrate Fauna to lead and develop a passionate zoological team in Perth, starting January 2027. You’ll coach, align workloads, and foster a collaborative culture built on respect, curiosity and shared accountability.

You’ll work closely with the Manager – Vertebrate Fauna and senior team members to grow people, deliver meaningful biodiversity outcomes, and create a safe, inclusive environment where diverse perspectives thrive.