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Heritage Consultant - Melbourne |
Niche |
Posted | 20 August 2024 | Salary | careers@niche-eh.com | ||
Region | VIC | Contact | Justin Shiner | Website | View |
Type | Full time | Phone | 0296305658 |
Use your experience to make a positive impact
Niche is a leading consultancy specialising in natural capital and offsetting, terrestrial and aquatic ecology, heritage management, and spatial services.
Our purpose is to empower people to create a sustainable future.
We’re looking for a Heritage Consultant to join our diverse community of talented, innovative technical experts and strategic advisors. Our people are proud to do work that matters, to make an impact working on some of the most consequential, challenging, and inspiring projects in their industry.
Find your Niche – a place you can thrive
From the start of our business in 2009, we have trusted our people with the flexibility they need to structure work around their lives and the autonomy to deliver their projects from end to end. On any given day our people will be working from home, in the field, or from one of our offices located across the east coast of Australia.
We value your expertise and ensure you have the systems, support, and tools to do what you do best. Whatever your role with Niche, you can take advantage of:
Time for your wellbeing, personal development, and family
Recognition for your time and effort
Support to master your craft
About the role
We are looking for an early career professional to work in collaboration with our Heritage team which operates across Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The role will involve supporting our work in Victoria, and with opportunities to work on interstate projects. In this role you will work directly with client from a diverse range of industries, Aboriginal representatives, and communities. You will have the opportunity to mentor and support your teammates and take on direct management of projects.
This position is ideal for individuals who are seeking a company that is focused on sustainable future growth and a role that further develops their technical skill set in cultural heritage management.
What will make us a great match
Specifically, we are looking for a highly motivated early career candidate with:
You should be prepared to work flexible hours, including during field work, and be willing to travel to field mainly in Victoria, but occasionally interstate
Other non-technical skills required include a passion for heritage, excellent communication skills, computer literacy, and ability to work autonomously as well as part of a specialist team.
About Niche and the team
At Niche, we look to the future and ask how we can empower people to make a positive difference and to solve clients’ problems in a way that balances a need for development with respect for heritage and reliance upon our environment.
Heritage management
Niche provides specialist cultural heritage services to a wide range of industry sectors and to clients of various scale. Our experienced archaeologists and heritage professionals work closely with project proponents, landholders, local communities and traditional owners to provide site assessments, management plans, archival recording and analysis and conservation advice.
With over 20 years industry experience Justin Shiner is a highly knowledgeable cultural heritage professional. Over this period, he has overseen a wide range of Indigenous and historical cultural heritage projects throughout most Australian jurisdictions and have international experience in cultural heritage management in Mongolia, Namibia and Peru. He has recently undertaken an international review of cultural heritage practice at Glencore’s global sites and currently advises Glencore on a greenfields mine development on Cape York Peninsula.
How to apply
If this sounds like a great fit, submit your CV and cover letter addressing the key requirements to careers@niche-eh.com.
Niche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage qualified candidates of all differences to apply. Our recruitment process includes behavioural and medical testing.
We also recognise the same recruitment process doesn’t fit all, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, simply let us know at the time you apply.
We acknowledge and value the rights and interests of Indigenous Peoples in the protection and management of environmental values through their involvement in decisions and processes, and the application of traditional Indigenous knowledge.