About the Opportunity

GML Heritage seeks an experienced consultant with a strong community engagement background to join our First Nations and Community Heritage team in Sydney. This role supports the Manager, First Nations and Community Heritage in designing, developing and implementing local stakeholder and community engagement across a diverse range of heritage projects.

As required, the role liaises with other consulting teams to assist with the delivery of communication and engagement tasks including:

• Co-develop, coordinate, and implement community and stakeholder engagement strategies and plans heritage projects.
• Support the development and implementation of a range of community and stakeholder engagement tools and techniques such as community forums and events, workshops, interviews, surveys, meetings, and seminars (face to face and video), collate qualitative data, carry out site inspections, and meet with clients.
• Build and maintain good working relationships with a broad range of community groups, particularly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• Carry out research, prepare plans and reports across a diverse portfolio of heritage places and projects.
• Respond to project inquiries, prepare proposals and tenders, conduct research, manage projects, author reports, build and manage client relationships, and contribute to a broad range of heritage service requirements.
• Work across several projects simultaneously, ensuring activities are well coordinated and delivered on time.
• 6-month initial fixed term contract.
• Office based in Surry Hills - flexible working arrangements available.

About GML Heritage

GML Heritage is one of Australia's leading and most respected heritage consultancies, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.

Our people share a commitment to generating ideas and challenging conventional thinking to help our clients succeed in planning and managing heritage places. For over 30 years our heritage experts, archaeologists, architects, historians, interpretation planners, and designers have delivered more than 7,000 heritage projects in Australia and internationally. We have deep expertise and built strong relationships across public, private, not for profit and community organisations.

The GML Heritage team is trusted. Our clients return to us for our insights, independence, professionalism, expertise, and reputation. On the strength of our client feedback, we were awarded the title of Best Heritage Consulting Firm in the Consult Australia 2020 and 2021 Client Choice Awards.

About You

• 3-5 years’ experience in consulting and or community engagement in the public or private sector.
• Understanding of First Nations heritage, communities, and heritage values and assessment processes.
• Ability to work on high profile and sensitive community issues.

• Tertiary qualifications (ideally with Honours, or Masters level) in communications or equivalent experience within community engagement, or a related discipline Heritage Studies and or Museum Studies).
• Demonstrated experience in preparing community engagement strategies and plans, as well as report writing in a consulting environment.
• Excel in a multi-disciplinary team environment and deftly manage budgetary and time constraints
• This role requires travel to outer suburban and regional locations, and work outside of core business hours in the evening and on weekends.
• Knowledge of current best practice approaches in First Nations heritage and NSW state and local government statutory requirements.

• Accreditation in IAP2 practices is desirable but not essential.

Benefits

• Industry benchmarked competitive salary.
• Flexible working arrangements where possible.
• Generous health and wellbeing allowance.
• Loyalty leave.
• GML funded paid parental leave.
• New employee recruitment referral bonuses.
• Personalised training & development budgets.
• Post graduate study allowances.

next steps

If you are an enthusiastic specialist who enjoys working as part of a dynamic multi-disciplinary team we would love to hear from you. Go to our website to find out more about us.