Principal Ranger

We're looking for individuals who are passionate about achieving landscape conservation outcomes, with strong collaborative land management skills. Your planning skills will be key in juggling and satisfying competing priorities, while your ability to motivate, innovate and influence your team will be the key to achieving outcomes in a busy and changing environment. To be successful in the role, you will also have:
· Ability to develop operational plans and achievement evaluation programs while applying business compliant adaptive responses to emerging issues.· Strong communications skills and the ability to coordinate and facilitate collaborations across of diverse stakeholder groups and competing interests.· Ability to build sustainable relationships with key stakeholders, particularly First Nation communities, for productive outcomes and continual improvement.· Strong problem solving and resolution skills, to address barriers and motivate individual and teams to achieve planned objectives.· High level writing and data presentation skills, to ensure comprehensive understanding of program and progress.· IT systems management skills to support planning and reporting outcomes.
K'gari is a unique and internationally recognised ecological and cultural landscape. This remote and challenging location requires a self-sufficient individual or family, who thrives as a community vanguard for contemporary conservation landscape management.
We encourage you to find out more about this role by contacting the contact officer and further information can be obtained in the role description - Please ensure you provide evidence of the listed Mandatory Requirements to confirm your eligibility.
Applications to remain current for 12 months.Job Ad Reference: QLD/6160+4/25Closing Date: Friday, 7 February 2026