Senior Agricultural Economist - Mackay Region
Applications Close : 13 January 2025
Job Description
We’re looking for a Senior Agricultural Economist who can:
- Lead innovative projects to deliver high quality economic evaluations and communicate information that targets improved profitability and sustainability.
- Accept new challenges and work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Use economics to solve problems and identify solutions for agricultural production activities, natural resource management initiatives and policy analysis.
Yearly salary: $114949 - $123611
Fortnightly salary: $4406.00 - $4738.00
About the role :
As our Senior Agricultural Economist, you will:
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships in multi-disciplinary teams with landholders, industry organisations, colleagues, natural resource management groups, universities and other government agencies.
- Develop bio-economic models and use other economic analysis methods to assess agricultural production activities, natural resource management initiatives and policy analysis.
- Utilise and provide training to stakeholders in the use of DPI economic decision support tools (e.g. www.featonline.com.au).
- Use computer and scientific technologies to analyse data and produce reports in a timely manner to meet project milestones and management needs.
- Provide advice and direction to management and stakeholders to improve service delivery and ensure quality outcomes.
- Lead projects to deliver high quality economic evaluations and communicate information that targets improved profitability and sustainability.
- Supervise and mentor staff to meet project requirements and assist in the professional development of regional economists.
- Develop and implement new projects and collaborative service delivery partnerships targeting improved competitiveness and sustainability within agricultural sectors.
Required Skills
Essential requirements:
- You will be required to undertake overnight travel to fulfil certain tasks. The role will require frequent travel to regional areas.
You may also have:
- Experience in dealing with the agricultural sector and primary producers will be highly regarded.
What we are looking for:
We are seeking the best suited candidate for the role. We will achieve this by:
- assessing your eligibility and suitability to fulfill the role requirements (including, where relevant, the way you carried out previous roles)
- evaluating your potential contributions to the department and how your involvement would uphold our commitment to equity, diversity, respect, and inclusion.
Eligibility requirements:
You will be asked to provide evidence of how you meet the eligibility requirements during the selection process.
Citizenship or visa requirements:
To be eligible for this opportunity, you must be an Australian citizen, hold permanent residency status, or possess a visa allowing you to work in Australia.
If you are not an Australian citizen, you must:
- provide evidence of your residency status or visa, along with your right to work (including any conditions and/or restrictions
- inform the department if your right to work in Australia ceases.
Licences and registrations:
- A current ‘C' class drivers licence
Mandatory qualifications:
- A Bachelor's degree (AQF level 7 or equivalent) or higher in economics, business or agriculture (including economics/business) is required.
- For international qualifications, the applicant will need their qualification assessed, to determine comparability with the Australian Qualifications Framework. The Department of Employment, Small Business and Training can assist with these assessments for Queensland residents.
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For further details contact
Mark Poggio
Email: mark.poggio@daf.qld.gov.au
Phone: (+61) 0428 105 109
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