Unit Support Officer - Paluma Environmental Education Centre

The State of Queensland is hiring a Unit Support Officer for the Paluma Environmental Education Centre in Townsville City, Australia. This role involves providing educational experiences, maintaining facilities, preparing teaching materials, and assisting with administration while promoting sustainability. The position requires a current Working with Children Clearance. Subsidised local housing may be available. The Centre focuses on environmental education and student engagement.
The Queensland Government is seeking a Unit Support Officer for the Paluma Environmental Education Centre in Townsville City, Australia. This role involves providing educational experiences, maintaining grounds and facilities, preparing teaching materials, and assisting with administrative duties. The position supports environmental education and student engagement while promoting sustainability. Subsidised local housing may be available. Applicants must have a current Working with Children Clearance.
About the Department of Education

The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

About Paluma Environmental Education Centre

The Paluma Environmental Education Centre is nestled amongst the lush, tropical rainforests of the Paluma Range National Park in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Situated approximately 80km north of Townsville, the Centre is the perfect base for an exposure to one of nature's most delicate and diverse ecosystems.
Our programs and learning experiences are designed to support student learning across the Australian Curriculum, and are delivered through a range of approaches, both on-site and at other locations.

Our Mission:

To deliver quality environmental education and other specialist learning experiences across the curriculum;
To encourage student awareness of, connection to and responsibility for self, others and place; and
To nurture sustainable practices and positive behaviour change in students, schools and the community.

Your Role

As Unit Support Officer at Paluma Environmental Education Centre, you will work as part of a team to provide educational experiences to students from the North Queensland Region and beyond. Your creativity and flexibility, along with a commitment to sustainability, will support your success in this varied role, where responsibilities may include:

Maintenance and improvement of grounds, facilities and equipment;
Preparation and maintenance of teaching materials;
Assisting centre teaching staff with the delivery of education programs to students;
Contributing to the administration of the centre, including general administrative duties, greeting and monitoring visitors and contractors, and participating in departmental procedures around the management of visiting groups, equipment, facilities and grounds; and
Other tasks as described in the Role Description, or as directed by the Principal or their delegate.

Subsidised local housing may be available to the successful candidate, pending availability and determination of eligibility in line with departmental housing policy and procedure.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply:

Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
Attach a 1-page written statement about how your achievements and capabilities meet the requirements of the role.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).

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