Sustainability and Climate Change Specialist

TasWater is seeking a Sustainability and Climate Change Specialist to enhance their efforts in addressing climate change impacts on water services. The role involves improving resilience, implementing circular economy practices, and ensuring environmental stewardship. Candidates should have a passion for sustainability, with experience in areas like climate adaptation or waste reduction. This position is located in Australia and offers opportunities for career development within the organization.
Our Business

Working at TasWater isn't just a job; it's an opportunity to deliver social, environmental, and economic benefits for Tasmania today, and tomorrow.

Our talented workforce of over 950 employees keeps Tasmania thriving by providing exceptional water and sewerage services to over 460,000 customers every day.

We have a bold and ambitious future, inspired by our vision to unlock water’s full potential, and centred on our customers and communities, our people and partners, the environment, and our collective water future.

Over the coming 5 years we’re investing $1.9 billion to ensure a safe and secure water future for a growing Tasmania, and we will make great steps towards our aspirations of net zero carbon emissions and towards zero waste. Visit our website or YouTube channel to learn more.

The Role

Climate change is a major challenge in maintaining access to safe and affordable water and sewerage services. We are reliant on the weather, the water cycle, and our natural environment to provide essential services to our communities. We also recognise that as one of the state's largest organisations, we impact the environment through our operations and services.

We are looking for someone to join our team of passionate professionals to guide us in reducing our contribution to climate change, improving the resilience of our assets and operations to climate change impacts, and utilising circular economy practices so we can continue to make a positive difference to Tasmania. This is a genuine opportunity to shape the future of our beautiful island.

You may focus on climate change adaptation, circular economy, or climate change mitigation with the opportunity to work with your team on joint projects across the diverse range of sustainability challenges facing our business and community. Your team will be working to:
• Improve our understanding of the impacts of climate change on our business and our communities, including preparing material for the new Australian Sustainability Reporting Standards
• Improve our resilience to climate events
• Ensure we are responsible environmental stewards and that we are doing what we can to improve the environment through our operations
• Implement our environment blueprint, including implementing the circular economy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to deliver better outcomes

For a full copy of the position description, please click HERE.

What we're looking for

You don't need to be experienced across all aspects of sustainability and climate change. We are interested in hearing from people with experience in and passion for any of the following: climate change adaptation, circular economy, resource management, waste reduction strategies, greenhouse gas emissions reduction strategies or sustainability initiatives.

Your application must include a cover letter that tells us about:
• Why you are interested in this role
• Your area of interest and your experience and skills in this area
• Your ability to communicate and collaborate with a diverse range of stakeholders.

Why TasWater

Across our multi-disciplinary organisation, we are serious about enhancing the skills and careers of our team members. When you join TasWater, you join a company that offers career development pathways, training courses, and access to subject matter experts.

We are continuing to build an inclusive workplace and workforce that truly represents the Tasmanian community that we serve. We value diversity in all its many forms and welcome a range of perspectives and identities to enrich the way we work and what we do.

We take pride in being acknowledged as an employer of choice for women by WORK180. Visit the Work180 website to view our benefits and policies, such as 18 weeks of paid parental leave for all parents regardless of tenure and with full superannuation contributions. We’re continuing to work on future benefits through a dedicated Employee Experience team.

The Details

We have one permanent full-time opportunity and can consider two part-time roles (at least 0.5 FTE) that can be based in Hobart, Launceston, or Devonport. The position offers flexible work patterns, flexible start and finish times, and hybrid work arrangements. The total remuneration package for this position ranges from $124,474 - $138,304 per annum (including superannuation), negotiable dependent on experience.

In your application, please include a cover letter addressing the selection criteria outlined under the "Essential" section in the position description.

If you would like to learn more about this role or have a confidential conversation, please contact Luc Richard - Manager Sustainability and Climate Change at luc.richard@taswater.com.au.

Our applications will be closing on March 12 at 10:00 AM.