Reforestation Project Manager (Senior Operations Manager)

We’re looking for a hands-on, solution-focused and collaborative project manager who’ll help ensure the successful design, implementation, and maintenance of our planting projects in Australia. This role would serve as an expert on our planting sites, visiting sites regularly and ensuring we get the best from our partners, stakeholders, and Land Life colleagues on everything related to the plantings we’re nurturing.

Here’s what you’d be doing:

• Developing comprehensive annual work plans in alignment with Land Life’s goals and budgets, and relevant regulatory requirements

• Negotiating contractor and potential contractor agreements and specifications in line with project budgets

• Leading the entire project lifecycle, from initial site assessment and design through to execution, monitoring, and reporting.

• Overseeing all on-site activities, including seed collection, nursery operations, site preparation, planting, post-planting maintenance and remediation.

• Conducting site visits throughout the year to assess new properties, review site activities and conduct monitoring.

• Looking into different opportunities to expand land availability, find new partners, enhance the scientific basis of our work, and improve the efficacy of project implementation.

• Support partnership managers in building a network of landowners and join landowner visits to give technical expertise at each site

• Tracking the progress our partners and suppliers are making, and stepping in to address issues quickly

• Technical plan development: conducting desktop assessments of forest cover, exclusion areas, regulatory approvals etc. to design the best possible planting for that particular site, gathering information from the field (soil samples, drone data, current vegetation) to inform planting design with contractors and partners, utilising advanced GIS software (e.g., QGIS) for spatial analysis, mapping, and data management relevant to all stages of reforestation, and support the bigger operations and monitoring teams to complete in field monitoring - including site assessments, germinant checks, species survival and biomass monitoring.

• Ensuring quality, safety and environment requirements are met and that all projects adhere to relevant legislation and guidelines.