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- Job posted on: 3rd Jun 2021
Arid Edge Environmental Services is seeking a environmentally motivated individual to provide landscape design consulting services and manage diverse projects within a dynamic team. Arid Edge Environmental Services is an environmental services social enterprise providing design, landscaping, consulting and project management services to clients across urban, remote and indigenous communities in central Australia.
This position will be responsible for delivering Arid Edge’s existing projects in the area of landscaping, landscape design, conservation land management, remote food security and consulting; as well as managing day to day operations of Arid Edge’s operations and diverse team of designers, horticulturalists, rangers and community development workers.
This is a twelve month fixed term position. Renewal of contract will depend on the candidate securing sufficient fee-for service contracts to support the on going running costs associated with this position.
Arid Edge Environmental Services is a environmental services social enterprise established by the Arid Lands Environment Centre in Alice Springs in 2013. We provide design, landscaping, consulting and project management services to a wide range of clients across central Australia in the areas of sustainable landscapes, conservation/land management, food security and climate change adaptation.
Arid Edge specialises in techniques and design solutions appropriate to the arid zone. We place particular emphasis on water efficiency, irrigation efficiency and water harvesting/ reuse, as well as dry lands horticulture and permaculture for landscaping, land management and food production.
Arid Edge seeks to meet the vision of the Arid Lands Environment Centre for “healthy futures for arid lands and people” through a social enterprise model that engages partners on a commercial level as well as through a community development framework, and seeks where appropriate to use profit motive as an engine for positive environmental and social outcomes in Central Australia.
Arid Edge Environmental Services is a trading name of the Arid Lands Environment Centre Inc. All profits go to the Arid Lands Environment Centre.
For more details see www.aridedge.com.au.
Sophie Elmouttie, ALEC Operations Manager [email protected], using the subject line: Manager - Arid Edge - Alice Springs enquiry via EthicalJobs.
A position description is attached.