Senior Cultural Heritage Officer

Drive regional partnerships and support the delivery of key infrastructure programs.

Your New CompanyJoin a large organisation responsible for delivering and maintaining significant transport infrastructure across Queensland. Based within the program delivery team, you’ll contribute to major road and transport projects while working collaboratively with project teams, cultural heritage specialists and key stakeholders.
Your New RoleAs a Senior Cultural Heritage Officer, you’ll provide specialist cultural heritage advice across a diverse portfolio of transport infrastructure projects. Supporting projects through planning, design, construction and maintenance, your responsibilities will include:

• Providing cultural heritage advice across multiple infrastructure project teams
• Undertaking cultural heritage assessments and preparing reports, management plans and agreements
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Providing advice on relevant cultural heritage legislation, policies, procedures and project requirements
• Participating in and managing fieldwork, including surveys, studies and monitoring activities
• Conducting project inspections and audits to support cultural heritage compliance
• Supporting effective cultural heritage governance and risk management throughout project delivery

What You'll Need to SucceedTo be successful in this role, you will have:

• Tertiary qualification in archaeology, anthropology, cultural heritage management or similar 
• Relevant cultural heritage experience, ideally across infrastructure or major projects 
• Knowledge of cultural heritage legislation, assessments and management requirements 
• Experience with fieldwork, reporting, management plans and stakeholder engagement 
• Current Class C driver's licence 
• Current White Card, or ability to obtain one
• Membership with a relevant professional body such as the Australian Archaeological Association or ICOMOS will be highly regarded.

What You'll Get in ReturnThis is an opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of significant transport infrastructure projects. You’ll join an experienced multidisciplinary team where your cultural heritage expertise will directly contribute to responsible and compliant project delivery.You’ll benefit from a varied role combining project work, stakeholder engagement and field-based activities, with exposure across multiple stages of major infrastructure delivery.

If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' or forward an up-to-date copy of your CV to sophie.fellows@hays.com.au 
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