Cultural Heritage Coordinator

NES Fircroft is seeking a Cultural Heritage Coordinator in Western Australia to assist with cultural heritage surveys for a major renewable energy project. Responsibilities include planning surveys, maintaining relationships with Traditional Owners, supervising field teams, and ensuring compliance with heritage legislation. Candidates should have relevant experience, strong stakeholder management skills, and a background in archaeology or environmental science. This role requires occasional site visits, indicating it is not remote.
We are currently seeking a Cultural Heritage Officer for a Major Global Energy Operator in Perth CBD with occasional AdHoc site visits to support the project team with the cultural heritage survey program.

Key Responsibilities:
• This role will assist with the planning and execution of heritage surveys and heritage management activity critical to the continuity of this exciting renewables project's schedules, in accordance with legislative and Agreement obligations
• The role will be pivotal in developing and maintaining mutually respectful and strong relationships with Traditional Owners and their representatives to facilitate this work.
• This is a great opportunity for a passionate professional who enjoys working in the field, has solid safety, leadership and stakeholder management skills and is able to bring together multiple moving pieces in an agile and dynamic environment.
• Support the scheduling, scoping and delivery of heritage surveys and related field activities.
• Plan and coordinate safe working practices of field-based activities
• Supervise and provide coaching for heritage field survey teams (contractors & Traditional Owners) in line with safety systems and processes and critical risk management
• Maintaining cultural heritage compliance and fieldwork documentation, equipment, assets and fleet.
• Coordinate heritage consultants, heritage monitors and heritage survey representative engagement, logistics and onboarding
• Assist to coordinate cultural heritage protection and management requirements associated with site activities, including Traditional Owner participation
• Tracking and reviewing of progress against scope in consultation wtih heritage survey teams in the field, to ensure aligned understandings of outcomes during and at the conclusion of each field activity.
Additional Requirements:
• Support review of survey deliverables (reports and GIS) against scope.
• Ensuring compliance with Heritage Agreements, commitments and legislation
• Experience in a similar role in remote field logistics, cultural heritage context including working with Traditional Owners, ideally in a Pilbara or greenfields project context.
• Tertiary qualification in Archaeology, Land Management, Environmental Science or equivalent experience considered beneficial
• Understanding of relevant WA and Commonwealth Aboriginal heritage legislation and regulatory requirements.
• The desire and capacity to work in field with physical demands and challenging physical environment.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and complex environment, with a problem-solving mind-set.
• Demonstrated cultural competency, meaningful relationship building and enagagement skills and the ability to influence for positive outcomes
• Computer and reporting skills, preferably with exposure to planning, safety and compliance.
• Knowledge of GIS platforms and applications; Esri ArcGIS and use of handheld navigation devices. Current manual drivers licence, ideally hold a 4WD certification and currency in remote first aid.

If interested in this position, please email: Teagan.mcneill@nesfircroft.com
Full AU working rights are required to be considered.

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